14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

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·S04 Open Seismic Risk Analysis

Description:
To manage seismic risk and to understand the potential impacts of new disaster science or policy, access to analytical and computer risk models is required. Risk models are constantly in flux as science, engineering, and disaster social science develop, and many researchers and practitioners lack risk-integration tools and methods needed for an overall understanding of risk - they must either re-develop existing integrative software or abandon potentially fruitful study. Current end-to-end risk models have been developed in a hierarchical paradigm and can’t nimbly respond to emerging knowledge and data. In response, a new paradigm of open risk analysis (ORA) is emerging, which includes development of a number of open source seismic risk related software codes (OpenSHA, OpenSEES, OpenRisk, OSRE, MIRISK - see (see www.risk-agora.org, for more information as well as proceedings of an international workshop on ORA in February 2007 at Caltech).) which will be described during the session.

Convener:
Charles Scawthorn
Professor,
Dept. of Urban Management
Kyoto University
Kyoto 615-8540 JAPAN
Tel: +81-75-383-3249
E-mail:cscawthorn@att.net

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