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

Table 6

Pairwise comparison matrix for vulnerability assessment parameters.

	E.D. roads	E.D. shoreline	Confined	E.D. residential	E.D. schools	Slope	E.D. hospitals	E.D. streams
E.D. roads	1.000	5.000	1.250	1.250	3.571	4.167	3.571	2.500
E.D. shoreline	0.200	1.000	0.250	0.250	0.714	0.833	0.714	0.500
Confined area	0.800	4.000	1.000	0.900	2.857	3.333	2.857	2.000
E.D. residential	0.800	4.000	1.111	1.000	2.857	3.333	2.857	2.000
E.D. schools	0.280	1.400	0.350	0.350	1.000	1.167	0.900	0.700
Slope	0.240	1.200	0.300	0.300	0.857	1.000	0.857	0.600
E.D. hospitals	0.280	1.400	0.350	0.350	1.111	1.167	1.000	0.700
E.D. streams	0.400	2.000	0.500	0.500	1.429	1.667	1.429	1.000

E.D.: Euclidean distance.