Rapid Seismic Damage Assessment Model for Alpes-Maritimes
Description
The Rapid Damage Assessment model builds upon three main components:
- A building exposure database for France (Negulescu et al., 2025), which has been extracted from the building census database at the municipality (and infra-municipality) level, provided freely by the national statistical database INSEE (INSEE-IRIS and INSEE-RIL);
- Shake-maps (maps of seismic intensity), estimated locally by GeoAzur
- The seismic damage assessment model Armagedom (Sedan et al., 2013), based on the semi-empirical vulnerability approach by Lagomarsino & Giovinazzi (2006).
Upon the detection of an earthquake, based on the produced ShakeMap, the distributions of damage (EMS-98 damage scale) and loss (injuries, casualties, shelter needs) are computed at the level of INSEE IRIS zones.
Technical Information
Main hazard addressed:
Earthquakes
Other related hazards:
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IP Ownership:
Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
Development Stage:
TRL 7: System prototype demonstration in an operational environment
Example of damage output from the Rapid Seismic Damage Assessment model for Alpes-Maritimes, with an arbitrary scenario North of Nice. The zoom on the municipality of Cannes demonstrates the spatial resolution of the results at infra-municipal level (INSEE IRIS zones).
Products using this model
- Earthquake Damage and Loss EstimationView Product
References
Cauzzi, C., Clinton, J., Faenza, L., Heimers, S., Koymans, M., Lauciani, V., ... & Sleeman, R. (2018). ShakeMapEU: towards an integrated European ShakeMap system. In Proceedings of the EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, Vienna, Austria.
Crowley, H., Despotaki, V., Rodrigues, D., Silva, V., Costa, C., Toma-Danila, D., Riga, E., Karatzetzou, A., Fotopoulou, S., Sousa, L., Ozcebe, S., Gamba, P., Dabbeek, J., Romão, X., Pereira, N., Castro, J.M., Daniell, J., Veliu, E., Bilgin, H., Adam, C., Deyanova, M., Ademović, N., Atalic, J., Bessason, B., Shendova, V., Tiganescu, A., Zugic, Z., Akkar, S., & Hancilar, U. (2021). European Exposure Model Data Repository [Dataset]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4062044
Gehl, P., Negulescu, C., & Guidez R. (2025). Dataset of building exposure distribution produced within the framework of the Horizon Europe GOBEYOND Project [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.18144/21e07d55-1e88-496f-825c-ad97d4ced342
Lagomarsino, S., & Giovinazzi, S. (2006). Macroseismic and mechanical models for the vulnerability and damage assessment of current buildings. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 4(4), 415-443.
Negulescu, C., Imtiaz, A., & Abad-Perez, J. (2025). Dataset of Infra-Municipal Level Exposure and Seismic Vulnerability National Database (IML ESV National Database) [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.18144/e6d3dcd8-e27c-4884-8d24-093c55a19090
Sedan, O., Negulescu, C., Terrier, M., Roulle, A., Winter, T., & Bertil, D. (2013). Armagedom—a tool for seismic risk assessment illustrated with applications. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 17(2), 253-281.