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EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 731-748Publisher
EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INST
DOI: 10.1193/1.3450316
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construction industry; earthquake engineering; inventory management; risk analysis
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We develop a global database of building inventories using taxonomy of global building types for use in near-real-time post-earthquake loss estimation and pre-earthquake risk analysis, for the U.S. Geological Survey's Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) program. The database is available for public use, subject to peer review, scrutiny, and open enhancement. On a country-by-country level, it contains estimates of the distribution of building types categorized by material, lateral force resisting system, and occupancy type (residential or nonresidential, urban or rural). The database draws on and harmonizes numerous sources: (1) UN statistics, (2) UN Habitat's demographic and health survey (DHS) database, (3) national housing censuses, (4) the World Housing Encyclopedia and (5) other literature. [DOI: 10.1193/1.3450316]
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