PAGER-CAT: A Composite Earthquake Catalog for Calibrating Global Fatality Models

• DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.80.1.57
• Publication Date: 2009-01-21T22:31:47Z
• Authors: T. I. Allen; K. D. Marano; P. S. Earle; D. J. Wald
• Keywords: Pager

The compilation of a comprehensive global earthquake catalog that delivers both accurate source parameters and fatality estimates is task simple in theory but challenging practice. necessary information spread throughout numerous catalogs, reports, online databases. Earthquake catalogs are created for different purposes, consequently they excel areas. Some provide high-quality hypocenters while others contain carefully researched damage reports. Herein we examine published create PAGER-CAT, composite effects.

PAGER-CAT incorporates eight additional auxiliary data to not only hypocentral locations, magnitudes, human fatalities, when available, focal mechanisms, the country origin or distance nearest landmass, local time day week, presence secondary effects ( e.g. , tsunami, landslide, fire, liquefaction) deaths caused by these effects, number buildings damaged destroyed, people injured left homeless. first version composed more than 140 fields which detailed event can be recorded currently includes events from 1900 through December 2007, with emphasis on earthquakes since 1973.

The was compiled calibration development models used U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Prompt Assessment Global Earthquakes Response (PAGER) system. PAGER system provides names cities exposed severe shaking following significant (Earle et al. 2008; Wald 2008). In future, will produce rapid within approximately 20 minutes an earthquake's occurrence anywhere globe, using loss calibrated against PAGER-CAT Jaiswal Porter …