178 results about "Earthquake intensity" patented technology

An earthquake damage prediction and prevention system for determining an impact or damage caused by an earthquake to objects associated with different geographical locations. A central unit with a filter module selects and collects earthquake related data of a plurality of network units. At least one impact ratio table is stored with a first data structure for storing geographical and / or topographical data coordinates of the different geographical locations. The geometric distances of the geographical locations from a hypocenter / epicenter are generated by an intensity calculation module with a coordinates processor. Local intensity values based upon the generated geometric distances and a given earthquake magnitude of a stored parameterization including variable weight parameters are generated by a propagation calculation unit of the intensity calculation module, whereas the generated geometric distances are stored assigned to the corresponding geographical locations by a second data structure of the impact ratio table. At least one of the variable weight parameters and / or at least one impact ratio for different earthquake intensity levels indicative of the impact or damage caused by an earthquake to the object and / or at least one object parameter defining earthquake exposed structures of the object are received from a plurality of users. By an index calculation module the impact index for the geographical locations is generated by determining in each case from the impact ratio table the impact ratio for the local intensity at the respective geographical location, and the impact ratios are added up weighted in each case by the weighting factor assigned to the respective geographical location.