Celebrating successful earthquake risk reduction through counterfactual probabilistic analysis

• Main Authors: Rabonza, Maricar, Lin, Yolanda, Lallemant, David
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Mathematics of computing::Numerical analysis; Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Mathematics of computing::Probability and statistics; Social sciences::Geography::Natural disasters; Earthquake Risk Assessment; Probabilistic Analysis; Counterfactuals
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152837
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While thousands of lives are saved through effective earthquake risk reduction programs, very few opportunities exist to celebrate such successes. First, if the tangible benefits of such interventions are only felt in the advent of a large earthquake, there is often a large time-delay between the in...