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A Review of Damage Intensity Scales

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A wide range of scales and indices are used to describe natural hazards and theirimpacts. Some scales infer damage levels from hazard characteristics while othersuse damage levels to estimate a physical characteristic. Damage scales may relyon raw dollar values, percent loss estimates, damage states, normalized values ormacrodamage categories. Whatever the basis of the scale it should tell the truth.However, scales are compromises between the need for detailed information andbeing simple enough to use. Damage scales may be nominal (categorical), ordinal, interval or ratio scales. Frequencywords such as ``few'', ``many'' can be dealt with in a range of ways to produce contiguous,widely separated, broadly overlapping or narrow overlapping values. Most scales rely onmaximum values but some focus on minimum or threshold values. The number of levelson damage scales commonly ranges from five to 13. Some long-lived damage scales haveevolved through several editions, changing to reflect the new or additional uses to whichthey have been put and as buildings and the nature of damage to those structures has changed. Few scales state precisely the purpose of the scale, deal clearly with ambiguities or provideguidelines for the use of qualitative information. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003

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  • Russell Blong, 2003. "A Review of Damage Intensity Scales," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 29(1), pages 57-76, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:29:y:2003:i:1:p:57-76
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1022960414329
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    1. Hao Wu & Zhiping Cheng & Wenzhong Shi & Zelang Miao & Chenchen Xu, 2014. "An object-based image analysis for building seismic vulnerability assessment using high-resolution remote sensing imagery," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 71(1), pages 151-174, March.
    2. Russell Blong, 2003. "A New Damage Index," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 30(1), pages 1-23, September.
    3. Olga Petrucci & Paola Salvati & Luigi Aceto & Cinzia Bianchi & Angela Aurora Pasqua & Mauro Rossi & Fausto Guzzetti, 2017. "The Vulnerability of People to Damaging Hydrogeological Events in the Calabria Region (Southern Italy)," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-28, December.
    4. Dhaoui, Iyad, 2014. "Analyse des enjeux et de la vulnérabilité au risque d’inondation d’oued Medjerda [Analysis of vulnerability to risk of Medjerda Oued]," MPRA Paper 87649, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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