Seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of Kolkata City, India

Nath, S. K.; Adhikari, M. D.; Devaraj, N.; Maiti, S. K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1103-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1103-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1103-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

Research article

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02 Jun 2015

Research article |

| 02 Jun 2015

Seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of Kolkata City, India

S. K. Nath, M. D. Adhikari, N. Devaraj, and S. K. Maiti

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RC C868: 'comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 May 2014
- AC C916: 'Point by point response to the observations & comments of # Reviewer 2 on nhess-2013-467 discussion', Sankar Kumar Nath, 29 May 2014
RC C1741: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #3, 30 Jul 2014
- AC C1988: 'Point by point response to the observations & comments of Anonymous Reviewer # 3 on the manuscript titled “Seismic Vulnerability & Risk Assessment of Kolkata City, India” (ms# nhess-2013-467)', Sankar Kumar Nath, 06 Sep 2014

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We microzoned seismic hazard of the City of Kolkata, India by integrating seismological, geological and geotechnical themes in GIS which in turn is integrated with the vulnerability components in a logic-tree framework for the estimation of both the socio-economic and structural risk of the City. The cumulative damage probabilities in terms of ‘none’, ‘slight’, ‘moderate’, ‘extensive’ and ‘complete’ have been assessed for the predominantly four model building types RM2L, RM2M, URML and URMM.