Systemic seismic vulnerability and loss assessment : validation studies

The SYNER-G project aims at developing a methodology to evaluate the seismic vulnerability to earthquakes of a complex system of interconnected infrastructural systems of regional/urban extension. This report summarizes the application of the SYNER-G methodology and tools to selected case studies of regional and urban extension: the city of Thessaloniki; the city of Vienna; the gas system of L'Aquila in Italy; the road network of Calabria region in Southern Italy; the electric power network of Sicily; a hospital facility in Italy; the harbor of Thessaloniki. For each case study the following items are given: general description of the test site, seismic hazard issues, systemic vulnerability methodology, software developments and implementation, system topology and characteristics, description of the input, results of the application. Through these studies the different steps of the SYNER-G methodology are validated and demonstrated.