SEISMIC RISK MAPPING OF URBAN SECTORS OF ISLAMABAD

Abstract

Pakistan is seismic hazardous zone and most of our buildings were built before the BCP-2007 which is why we need a vulnerability assessment of different regions so that we prepare from any upcoming earthquake. For our vulnerability assessment we selected zone 1 of Islamabad. Individual analysis of each building is quite a long process, so we need to screen out some buildings which seems potentially hazardous and need detailed analysis for further vulnerability assessment, that’s why we used an empirical technique called Rapid Visual Screening of FEMA-154 in which we identify buildings which needs detail analysis. We performed this technique on the commercial buildings of F, Isector of Islamabad. We evaluated a total of 253 buildings. As a result, we have screened out 5 buildings which are highly vulnerable according to our assessment and need a detailed analysis