Research Article

Geospatial Multicriteria Analysis for Earthquake Risk Assessment: Case Study of Fujairah City in the UAE

Table 1

Review of recent seismic vulnerability assessment studies.

ReferencesStudy areaUtilized parametersUtilized techniques

Jena et al. 2021 [28]Northeast, IndiaDistance from railway, railway density, distance from landuse, landuse density, distance from buildings, and building densityAnalytical hierarchy process (AHP) and convolutional neural network (CNN)
Yariyan et al. 2020 [4]Sanandaj City, IranBuilding materials, landuse, distance from hospital, distance from fire station, number of floors, distance from street, altitude, lithology, distance from the fault, slope, distance from the stream, and population densityFuzzy-multiple criteria analysis (fuzzy-MCDA) and logistic regression
Lee et al. 2019 [31]Tehran, IranPeak ground acceleration (PGA), slope, construction (material, quality), population, employment status, open spaces, road network, fire stations, hospitals, gas pipes, and gasoline stationsRadial basis function (RBF) and teaching–learning-based optimization (TLBO)
Jena et al. 2019 [32]Banda Aceh, IndonesiaSlope, curvature, elevation, aspect, epicenter density, epicenter distance, depth density, magnitude distribution, PGA density, fault, building density, office, population, and transport nodesArtificial neural network (ANN) and AHP
Liu et al. 2019 [33]Urumqi, ChinaType of structure, period of construction, number of floors, land use and land cover, and roof typeSVM and association rule learning (ARL)
Hopkins and Turan et al. 2018 [34]TurkeyTopography, source to site distance, soil classification, liquefaction potential, and fault mechanismAHP, technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS)
Ahmad et al. 2017 [35]SyriaPGA, earthquake epicentres, active faults, digital elevation model, and slopeEarthquake potential index (EPI)