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Author
Zhao, S. J. | Xiong, L. Y. | Ren, A. Z.
Title
Spatial-Temporal Stochastic Simulation of Fire Outbreaks Following Earthquake Based on GIS.
Coporate
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing, China Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Journal
Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 4, 313-339, July 2006
Keywords
earthquakes | disasters | statistics | damage | building collapse | equations | probability | simulation | seismic design
Identifiers
Geographical Information System (GIS); fire outbreaks following earthquakes; regression analysis; spatial-temporal probability model; random Poisson event; Weibull distribution; Kaplan-Meier analysis; spatial distribution characters; temporal distribution characters; seismic intensity or peak ground acceleration (PGA)) on regions; fires following earthquakes in USA, Japan, and China in the 20th Century; spatial-temporal simulation of fire outbreaks following earthquake; fire-outbreaks in time order in Kobe city and adjacent areas in Hyogo and Osaka prefectures for January 17-19 after Hanshin earthquake (1995, JAPAN); estimation of parameters of Weibull distribution for fire-outbreaks in time order by using Kaplan-Meier method; Chinese seismic intensity to PGA conversion Table