- 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