Assessment of various levels of damage severity immediately after a large earthquake is imperative for rapid recovery of the affected region. Recent research on the use o [...]

The concept of resilience is widely used in the disaster management field. In the earthquake-engineering field, many studies have investigated the structural performance [...]

This paper describes statistical procedures for characterizing and accounting for uncertainty in earthquake fragility models. Both fully analytical and non-parametric boo [...]

Hospitals play a paramount role during an earthquake emergency response. Large earthquakes have caused a large number of casualties in many communities in the past to the [...]

In this paper, algorithms for extracting building attribute information from remotely sensed data are presented. In particular, a methodology for rapidly extracting spati [...]