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Building damage assessment after the 2009 Abruzzi earthquake

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Soon after the earthquake that damaged L’Aquila municipality and its Province in the Abruzzi Region, Italy, on the 6th of April 2009, a widespread damage and usability assessment of buildings was launched. In 3 months, about 70,000 buildings were inspected, with the AeDES form, by public servants and professionals coordinated by the Italian Civil Protection Department. The paper, after describing the procedures and the form that were used for the assessment, discusses the time evolution of the inspections and analyses the data on building type and seismic damage. The empirical damage distribution conditional upon seismic intensity and building type is provided and the role of several vulnerability factors, such as the quality of masonry, the construction year, the number of stories, and the pre-existing damage, is highlighted. Lastly the damage consequences, such as the immediate occupancy conditional upon building damage and building type, are reported.

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  1. Civil Protection Department, Seismic and Volcanic Risk Office, Via Vitorchiano 4, 00189, Rome, Italy

    Mauro Dolce & Agostino Goretti

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Dolce, M., Goretti, A. Building damage assessment after the 2009 Abruzzi earthquake. Bull Earthquake Eng 13, 2241–2264 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-015-9723-4

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