EMME, Seismic Risk Assessment in Istambul, Turkey

EMME, Seismic Risk Assessment (work package 4 - WP4) and City Scenarios (WP5) were presented on 25-26 February 2011 in Istambul, Turkey.

EMME (Earthquake Model of the Middle East Region) is an international project aiming at the assessment of seismic hazard, the associated risk in terms of structural damages, casualties and economic losses and also at the evaluation of the effects of relevant mitigation measures in the Middle East region.

Experts of Idea Design Group support the Institute of Geophysics of Tbilisi State University in GIS and computational tasks in EMME project.  Georgian team presented results of data inventory for seismic risk assessment GIS database.   One of the building classification schemes was adopted for Georgian buildings; population distribution in the region was calculated.