%0 Journal Article
%A Ferreras Gómez, Mercedes
%A González De Vallejo González, Luis Ignacio
%A Garcia López-Davadillo, Juan Carlos
%A Rodríguez Franco, José Ángel
%A Estévez Martín, Hugo
%T Seismic and Flood Risk Evaluation in Spainfrom Historical Data
%D 2004
%@ 0930-0317
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50020
%X Floods and earthquakes are two of the natural processes that cause in Spaineconomic and social losses, with major effects on the first ones. In order to evaluate the risk(social damages and economical losses) associated with these processes, the availablehistorical data and information on happened events (from bibliographical and documentarysources, press, files, data bases, etc.) has been compiled and analysed exhaustively, includingalso the information related to the economic and social losses (damages, victims, directand indirect economical losses, governmental and insurance companies data, etc.). Theanalysis of the historical information has allowed to estimate the distribution and extent ofthe damages and losses due to floods and earthquakes in Spain, as well as the vulnerabilityof the national territory. The estimation of the damages and losses for the next three decadeshas been approached from the study of the flood and earthquake potential hazard inSpain, estimating the probabilities of occurrence of these processes with different magnitude/intensity for the period of reference. The present economic and social conditions of theterritory have been considered, carrying out probabilistic estimations and valuing hypotheticalsituations of potential damage scenarios. The results allow to know the hazard(probability of occurrence of processes of certain magnitude) and risk degree (potentialdamages and losses) of every municipality of the country.
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