HAZUS repair-cost seismic vulnerability functions for residential occupancies

Keith Porter, University of Colorado at Boulder

This text file presents results of a study documented in Porter, K.A., 2009. Cracking an open safe: more HAZUS vulnerability functions in terms of structure-independent intensity, Scheduled for publication in Earthquake Spectra August 2009.

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 .

Cracking an Open Safe: Extracting HAZUS’s Building Inventory to a Single Table

Colorado Results

This zip file contains 3 estimated building inventory tables: one each at the census tract, county, and state level. Each table contains, by geographic area, occupancy class, structure type, and design level, the total square footage (1000s of sf), building value ($1000s in 2003), content value ($1000s in 2003), number of occupants at 2 PM, number of occupants at 2 AM, and number of occupants at 5 PM. The inventory is based on the HAZUS-MH MR3 normalized default inventory tables, but denormalized from 15 related tables into a single table for each geographic aggregation level (tract, county, or state). A draft manuscript entitled Cracking an Open Safe: Extracting HAZUS’s Building Inventory to a Single Table, also available here, explains the methodology. Each file is comma-and-quote delimited, with column headers in the 1st row for ease of reading. 

The data are freely available but by downloading you agree to submit any derived products back to AGORA. 

Tables of mean damage factor and coefficient of variation of damage factor, based on:

Porter, K.A., 2009. Cracking an open safe: HAZUS vulnerability functions in terms of structure-independent spectral acceleration. Earthquake Spectra 25 (2), 361-378

Porter, K.A., 2009. Cracking an open safe: more HAZUS vulnerability functions in terms of structure-independent spectral acceleration. Earthquake Spectra 25 (3), 607-618.

Porter, K.A., ND. Cracking an open safe: uncertainty in HAZUS-based seismic vulnerability functions. Submitted to Earthquake Spectra, Sept 2009

Unlike version 1, these files give both MDF and COVDF at the intensity measure levels at the uniform values: 10^-2, 10^-1.9, 10^-1.8, ...  10g. They also give values for special construction.

See the readme file for an explanation of contents.