Executable, beta, 17 Jul 2007 release.

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DBELA v2.2 is a Matlab based software for earthquake loss assessment with a GUI (Graphical User Interface). The theoretical engine behind the software is known as DBELA (Displacement-Based Earthquake Loss Assessment). This is a beta version that is still under development. Please send any comments/bug reports to ihsan.bal@eucentre.it.

Documentation for HAZUS-based fatality rates in ordinary buildings, published in Earthquake Spectra, May 2009. Electronic fatality-rate tables are available at this site. A companion document to be published in August 2009 explains derivation of tables of mean damage factor.

FEMA-funded fragility-function calculator ver 2.1, developed Xin Xu and Keith Porter for ATC-58. See related document for explanation of the math. This is the executable Java software available to all registered AGORA members. (Be sure you have Java on your computer; it is free at http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp.) Source code is available to users willing to contribute enhancements or other source code back to AGORA. Contact keith@cohen-porter.net.

Text file provides fraction of occupants killed as a function of site-soil-adjusted Sa(0.3 sec, 5%) or Sa(1.0, 5%) and region, site class, magnitude, and distance range, consistent with HAZUS-MH methodology. 

This file presents results of a study documented in Porter, K.A., 2009. Cracking an open safe: HAZUS vulnerability functions in terms of structure-independent intensity. Earthquake Spectra May 2009. This is version 2, calculated according to the Earthquake Spectra (May 2009) manuscript.

The vulnerability functions presented herein are copyrighted 2009 by Keith Porter and may not be used for commercial purposes without the author's prior written consent. They may be used for educational and academic research purposes, so long as they are properly acknowledged using the foregoing citation.

Please direct inquiries and comments to keith@cohen-porter.net .