SIRIUS, Seismic Risk Indicator in Urban Space
SIRIUS, Seismic Risk Indicator in Urban Space
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DOI:
10.1193/1.4000149
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发表时间:
2013-05
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
F. de Sá;C. Oliveira;M. Ferreira
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作者:
F. de Sá;C. Oliveira;M. Ferreira
Despite numerous research efforts in recent years, seismic risk continues to be difficult to perceive and communicate. Although researchers have access to sophisticated tools that can quantify seismic risk, such groups as public authorities, land use and urban planners, stakeholders, end-users, and citizens should also be able to access simple seismic risk information. Thus, SIRIUS was built and mapped into a scale following the Weber and Fechner perception law, with impacts described in a simple yet meaningful language while capturing the two most fundamental dimensions that explain risk variability along the urban space: the reliability deficit and human concentration. With SIRIUS, at-risk places and the reasons why seismic risk is a concern are easy to identify and communicate. To illustrate the potential of this robust indicator, an application of SIRIUS to the city of Lisbon is presented.