Getting better insights in the influence of uncertainties in seismic risk. Application to L’Aquila earthquake (2009).
Abstract
Over recent years, numbers of tools for seismic risk analysis have been developed to evaluate casualties and losses induced by earthquakes. A recent overview of available models can be found in (Molina et al. 2010). These predictions software require a large number of quantitative parameters (parametric uncertainty) but also model structures (model uncertainty). The choice of the appropriate model and the determination of exact values of these parameters remain very difficult. Therefore, sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification have to be performed for these kinds of studies. In this context, the aim of this article is to present a methodology for getting better insight in the role played by the different uncertainty sources (parametric and model) based on a variance-based global sensitivity analysis. Contrary to Rohmer et al. (2014), we used a less greedy estimation algorithm (Benaïchouche & Rohmer 2016), which both allows providing global sensitivity measures, but also information on local sensitivity. The application case is the risk analysis performed for Aquila (Italy, 2009) earthquake.
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