Reduction of Uncertainty in Post-Event Seismic Loss Estimates Using Observation Data and Bayesian Updating

The insurance industry relies on both commercial and in-house software packages to quantify financial risk to natural hazards. For earthquakes, the initial loss estimates from the industry’s catastrophe risk (CAT) models are based on the probabilistic damage a building would sustain due to a catalog...

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Main Author: Torres, Maura Acevedo
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D8QR58F5