Damage Estimation of Buildings in the Kathmandu Valley and Proposals for lmprovement of the Earthquake-Resisting Capacity

Abstract

During"The study on earthquake disaster mitigation in the Kathmandu Valley(JICA,2002)",in order to establish the disaster mitigation plan,hazard and damage analysis were conducted.The building damage due to both the three scenario earthquakes and the 1934 earthquake were estimated.In the analyses,building inventory database,vulnerability function for each structural type were developed.The results provided the actual image of miserable disasters and necessity of measures against them.Then,several proposals for improvement of the earthquake-resisting capacity in the Kathmandu Valley were issued.