GIS Application Analysis Earthquake Data to Evaluate Risk Assessments of Seismic Hazard in Kurdistan of Iraq Using Probabilities

Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , Pages 129-144

Authors

¹ University of Sulaimani, Department of Computer Science, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

² Directorate of Water, GIS department, Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq,

Earthquakes in Kurdistan of Iraq are unorganized natural disaster, that happens

without any schedule or any knowledge of when and where they may occur. However, it

is important to know where and when they may happen or at least identify the risk

locations, strength of the danger, numbers of occurrence per area (density) and predict

the future earthquakes if possible, which are the key issues of this paper. The answer to

these issues can be achieved through earthquake data evaluation. Hence it is important

to look into the earthquake data from the past, and evaluates them through the power of

GIS (Geographical Information System) application; this will build a method that will

develop the access to the answers to the key issues through a spatial analytical

procedure, as the answer helps future planning and risk assessments. GIS can evaluate

seismic hazard and risk analysis, as it demonstrates an environment with many features

that uses to carryout statistical and spatial analysis efficiently. The application first looks

at the data in details, afterwards it allocates the information to each administrative area in

the province of Kurdistan accordingly and maps the data vividly to produce graphical

results to the issues and their answers, that are easier to illustrate the results. Eventually,

the data needs to be examined for any available patterns that help for the future

earthquake prediction, if there are any data. problem and your proposed technique to

address it.

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