The concept of performance-based earthquake engineering has gained significant attentions in both the research and engineering communities. The development of a performan [...]

The scarcity of detailed claims data for building contents (Coverage C) from historical earthquake events poses a significant challenge for property insurance catastrophe [...]

This study presents two heuristic approaches to adjust the California earthquake occurrence rates in the commercial catastrophe models based on the new Uniform California [...]

In general, the cost of seismic mitigation in a lifeline network is large but the budget is limited. Thus, a priority list of pipeline for mitigation is necessary. This p [...]