Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings : Europe and Central Asia Region

Multifamily residential buildings in earthquake-prone cities across Central Europe, Balkans, and Central Asia have proved to be vulnerable and have revealed several structural deficiencies during previous earthquake events. Earthquakes in these reg...

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Main Author:	World Bank Group
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	EARTHQUAKE RISK RESILIENT BUILDINGS SEISMIC HAZARD VULNERABILITY MODEL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT CITY RISK PROFILE BUILDING TYPE UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS REINFORCE CONCRETE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/401931598952181261/Earthquake-Risk-in-Multifamily-Residential-Buildings-Europe-and-Central-Asia-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34439

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spelling	okr-10986-344392021-05-25T09:50:08Z Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings : Europe and Central Asia Region World Bank Group EARTHQUAKE RISK RESILIENT BUILDINGS SEISMIC HAZARD VULNERABILITY MODEL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT CITY RISK PROFILE BUILDING TYPE UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS REINFORCE CONCRETE Multifamily residential buildings in earthquake-prone cities across Central Europe, Balkans, and Central Asia have proved to be vulnerable and have revealed several structural deficiencies during previous earthquake events. Earthquakes in these regions have damaged certain types of multifamily buildings beyond repair or have caused complete collapse, resulting in extensive homelessness and many fatalities. The vulnerability of some of these buildings can be attributed to the mass-produced nature of multifamily residential buildings as well as lack of maintenance, oversight, and disinvestment over many decades. This study investigates earthquake risk of multifamily buildings constructed before 2000 across cities in countries within Europe and Central Asia (ECA) to better understand their behavior and potential losses when subjected to earthquakes, and to inform recommendations for mitigation. 2020-09-15T18:47:18Z 2020-09-15T18:47:18Z 2020-08-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/401931598952181261/Earthquake-Risk-in-Multifamily-Residential-Buildings-Europe-and-Central-Asia-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34439 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Urban Study Europe and Central Asia Central Asia Eastern Europe
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topic	EARTHQUAKE RISK RESILIENT BUILDINGS SEISMIC HAZARD VULNERABILITY MODEL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT CITY RISK PROFILE BUILDING TYPE UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS REINFORCE CONCRETE
spellingShingle	EARTHQUAKE RISK RESILIENT BUILDINGS SEISMIC HAZARD VULNERABILITY MODEL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT CITY RISK PROFILE BUILDING TYPE UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS REINFORCE CONCRETE World Bank Group Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings : Europe and Central Asia Region
geographic_facet	Europe and Central Asia Central Asia Eastern Europe
description	Multifamily residential buildings in earthquake-prone cities across Central Europe, Balkans, and Central Asia have proved to be vulnerable and have revealed several structural deficiencies during previous earthquake events. Earthquakes in these regions have damaged certain types of multifamily buildings beyond repair or have caused complete collapse, resulting in extensive homelessness and many fatalities. The vulnerability of some of these buildings can be attributed to the mass-produced nature of multifamily residential buildings as well as lack of maintenance, oversight, and disinvestment over many decades. This study investigates earthquake risk of multifamily buildings constructed before 2000 across cities in countries within Europe and Central Asia (ECA) to better understand their behavior and potential losses when subjected to earthquakes, and to inform recommendations for mitigation.
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title	Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings : Europe and Central Asia Region
title_short	Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings : Europe and Central Asia Region
title_full	Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings : Europe and Central Asia Region
title_fullStr	Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings : Europe and Central Asia Region
title_full_unstemmed	Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings : Europe and Central Asia Region
title_sort	earthquake risk in multifamily residential buildings : europe and central asia region
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/401931598952181261/Earthquake-Risk-in-Multifamily-Residential-Buildings-Europe-and-Central-Asia-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34439
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Earthquake Risk in Multifamily Residential Buildings : Europe and Central Asia Region

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