Mar 22 – 24, 2023
The Westin Zagreb, Croatia
Europe/Zagreb timezone

The CRISIS Platform: a cross-border web-based platform for risk assessment and management

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20m
The Westin Zagreb, Croatia

The Westin Zagreb, Croatia

Kršnjavoga 1 10 000 Zagreb
Full paper - scientific Preparedness and Emergency Management

Speaker

Barbara Borzi (European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE))

Description

This paper aims to describe the CRISIS web-based platform (WBP) in all its parts and functionalities. The platform is the main result of the two-year EU-funded project CRISIS (Comprehensive RISk assessment of basic services and transport InfraStructure). It has been developed by EUCENTRE (European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering) using the most up-to-date web programming frameworks and technologies. The CRISIS WBP is a user-friendly tool intended to support disaster and emergency management authorities in case of earthquakes and/or seismo-induced landslides in the cross-border region of Albania, North Macedonia, and Greece. It has been designed to collect, organise, and visualise for the project target area: i) the exposure data of educational facilities, health facilities, and bridges; ii) the seismic and landslide hazard data; iii) the earthquake damage scenarios (calculated both for selected historical events and in real-time) and the landslide risk scenarios related to the considered exposure dataset. The tool also allows the identification of alternative routes to the nearest available safe facilities, if the main one cannot be used due to damage to the transport infrastructure following a seismic event. This feature can be particularly useful for rescuers who have to intervene promptly after damaging earthquakes. In addition to supporting emergency management, the CRISIS platform can also be used to identify the most vulnerable assets and prioritise actions to increase the resilience of the project target area. As a case study, two earthquakes that affected the cities of Ohrid and Valandovo in 1911 and 1931, respectively, have been simulated. The results of these simulations, also in terms of emergency management (e.g., how to get to the nearest hospitals in the cross-border regions), are presented in detail hereinafter.

DOI https://doi.org/10.5592/CO/2CroCEE.2023.32

Primary authors

Antonella Di Meo (European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE)) Barbara Borzi (European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE)) Davide Quaroni (European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE)) Dr Antonino Famà Vlatko Sheshov (Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS)) Roberta Apostolska (Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS)) Kemal Edip (Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS)) Maria Vitanova (Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS)) Julijana Bojadjieva (Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS)) Aleksandra Bogdanovic (Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS)) Goran Jekic (Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (IZIIS)) Markel Baballëku (Polytechnic University of Tirana, Faculty of Civil Engineering (UPT-FCE)) Neritan Shkodrani (Polytechnic University of Tirana, Faculty of Civil Engineering (UPT-FCE)) Genti Qirjazi Stavroula Fotopoulou Christos Pedritis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)) Evi Riga Dimitris Pitilakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH))

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