| Thematic Mapping for Disaster Risk Assessment in Case of EarthquakeSilvia MARINOVA, Temenoujka 
		BANDROVA, Mihaela KOUTEVA-GUENTCHEVA, Stefan BONCHEV, Bulgaria         Silvia Marinova, Temenoujka Bandrova, 
		Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva, Stefan Bonchev
 1)  
		In this paper was presented at the FIG Working Week, 17-21 May 2015 in 
		Sofia, Bulgaria. The paper presents a conceptual model for information 
		system for expert express evaluation of the earthquake risk over the 
		Bulgarian territory using GIS. Several damaging earthquakes have shaken 
		the Bulgarian territory since 1818. To reduce the damages it is 
		necessary to have at disposal preliminary estimates of frequency and 
		magnitude of the earthquakes, particular engineering characteristics of 
		the seismic action and relevant opportunities for disaster management. SUMMARY According to recent decades statistics the earthquakes cause major 
		damages and casualties among all natural disasters, followed by floods 
		and tropical cyclones. The annual risk for victims of earthquakes all 
		over the World is estimated at 10 000 - 15 000 people per year. Several 
		damaging earthquakes that shake Bulgarian territory (1818, 1858, 1904, 
		1928, 1977, 1986, 2012) led to significant damage. About 360 victims due 
		to earthquakes are reported in Bulgaria since 1901 until now. To reduce 
		human losses and damages it is necessary to have at disposal preliminary 
		estimates of frequency and magnitude of the earthquakes, particular 
		engineering characteristics of the seismic action and relevant 
		opportunities for disaster management.
 Earthquake risk estimation and management encompasses large quantity of 
		heterogeneous information data sets, including different types of maps, 
		statistical information and expert knowledge. This paper represents some 
		of the efforts, performed within the framework of the university 
		UACEG-CNIP research project dealing with a conceptual model for 
		information system for expert express evaluation of the earthquake risk 
		over the Bulgarian territory using GIS. It examines some problems that 
		arise in thematic mapping for disaster management in case of earthquake 
		due to the various types, structure and classification of data provided 
		by various organizations. Main stages for data harmonization including 
		georeferencing the information into a geographical reference system, 
		standardizing the object classification, standardizing the level of 
		detail, unifying the cartographic visualization are discussed and some 
		advantages of the use of thematic maps for disaster management in case 
		of earthquake are presented. The resulted maps aim to contribute to 
		holistic seismic risk estimation for the territory of Bulgaria. These 
		maps, logically coupled with the all information data set that has been 
		collected and systematized within the framework of this project, would 
		provide useful information for decision makers and stake holders, 
		dealing with earthquake risk mitigation.
 1.      INTRODUCTIONExpert evaluations of seismic risk assessment is based on the 
		expected damage and opportunities for disruption of the status of 
		various systems such as destruction, impaired functioning, capacity 
		reduction, etc. as a result of an earthquake (Kouteva-Guentcheva and 
		Pashova, 2014). The success of disaster management depends on 
		availability and effective use of information (Altan and Kemper, 2010). 
		For disaster management in case of earthquake the responsible 
		authorities need a large amount of data - the experts involved in 
		earthquake risk estimation need various data such as: seismic hazard 
		information, geological information, building stock information, 
		demographic and social information, business / communications / industry 
		information, infrastructure information - Figure 1 (Pashova et al., 
		2015; see this issue).
 
 
  Figure 1. Information data set for Expert earthquake risk estimation 
		purposes
 
 Cartography plays a very important role in presenting all these data on 
		special maps intended to be used for disaster management in case of 
		earthquake. Konecny and Bandrova (2006) have formulated the role of 
		cartography in disaster management “to simplify and well-arrange 
		required spatial data” thus the decision-making process to become 
		quicker and better and to lead to damage minimization. Different authors 
		work on mapping of seismic hazard information and geological 
		information. This paper is focused mainly on thematic mapping of 
		demographic and social information and business / communications / 
		industry information.
 Generally, the visualisation of information depends not only on the type 
		of data but also on the type of user, including gender, age, disability, 
		behaviour, preferences, habits, task responsibilities, and other 
		characteristics. Many current products (e.g., maps, images, web sites, 
		and 3D environments) for crisis management borrow the colour schemes, 
		symbols, and maps’ content from existing, application-oriented software, 
		systems, models, and visualisations (Bandrova et al, 2012).
 
 This paper presents newly compiled maps that take part of the integrated 
		information dataset, which has been collected within the framework of 
		the BN 164/14 CNIP-UACEG research project (Kouteva-Guentcheva, 2015). 
		The project deals with expert earthquake risk estimation, based on 
		holistic multidisciplinary approach involving processing in GIS 
		environment. Selected GIS layers will be the initially set of collected 
		maps describing the earthquake hazard available from various sources and 
		maps of different elements exposed to risk, particularly created maps 
		related the building stock, population in major cities, health 
		institutions, construction business statistics, infrastructure (Pashova 
		et al., 2015, see this issue). The conceptual model of Information Data 
		Set for the purposes of expert earthquake risk estimation, which 
		consists of five thematic modules and one common “basic” data module, is 
		shown in figure 1. The multiple datasets modules contain specialized 
		texts, maps, graphs, data tables in specific formats. Considering the 
		potential of the maps with regard improving the disaster management 
		process, this paper deals with the following two thematic modules: (i) 
		Demographic and Social Information and (ii) Business / communication / 
		industry information. All data, used for preparation of these maps are 
		available from the site of the National Statistical Institute,
		http://www.nsi.bg/en
 2. THEMATIC MAPPING FOR EXPERT EVALUATIONS OF SEISMIC RISK 
		ASSESSMENTEffective disaster management and decision making in case of 
		earthquake require accurate information in the right place at the right 
		time. Depending on the role of participants in these activities, they 
		need specialized geographic information to support their specific 
		actions (Marinova, 2014). Main source of such information are thematic 
		maps, which serve as a tool for risk assessment. The expert risk 
		estimation is based on a quantitative definition of risk coupling "V = 
		vulnerability", "H = hazard" and "E = exposed elements or assets" 
		(Varnes, 1984). Among the available different extended definitions of 
		vulnerability, the United Nations/International Strategy for Disaster 
		Reduction (UN/ISDR), for example, defines vulnerability as the 
		“conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental 
		factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of a community to 
		the impact of hazards (UN/ISDR, 2004). The multidisciplinary holistic 
		risk estimation approach aims to measure risk and vulnerability through 
		selected comparative indicators in a quantitative way in order to be 
		able to compare different areas or communities (Davidson and Shah, 1998; 
		Vahdat and Smith, 2010 and references in). For this reason the risk 
		estimation procedure in general starts with defining the scope of 
		analysis and the corresponding indicators that may contribute in the 
		risk’s elements.
 The risk for human life depends on the natural conditions in combination 
		with the activities of the population and whole society (Heitner, 1969). 
		Considering these factors and the importance of the demographic and 
		social information combined with business / communications / industry 
		information for the reliable earthquake risk assessment, some of the 
		maps that were prepared within the framework of the Research project 
		BN164/14-CNIP-UACEG (Kouteva-Guentcheva, 2015) are the following:
 
			Maps representing short-term statistics on residential 
			buildings;Maps representing housing fund - useful living area;Maps representing business statistics - number of building 
			permits;Maps representing business statistics - sectorial statistics - 
			average annual prices;Maps representing information society - household access to the 
			Internet;Maps representing demographic statistics - population density;Maps representing demographic and social statistics – 
			urbanization;Maps representing health sector - number of hospital beds. In addition the following topical raster maps (Bandrova, 2008) were 
		scanned and processed to be included in the Generalized Information Data 
		Set for Seismic Risk Evaluation: 
			Urbanization process;Transport infrastructure- density of the international / 
			national / regional network;Mining and quarrying;Electricity network;Chemical industry;Others. All these maps provide useful information for different risk 
		assessments and further risk mapping that would help decision makers and 
		stake holders to understand the needs for sustainable planning and to 
		support the integrated crisis management (Altan and Kemper, 2010). 
 The mapped information might be used for different aspects of the 
		earthquake risk evaluation and damage prevention – e.g. loss 
		estimations, cost analysis, insurance policies. The latter are 
		determined differently and can vary widely depend on several factors – 
		e.g. location that reflects the level of seismic hazard, time of design 
		and construction, building structure type, number of floors, etc.
 
 Regarding the building stock, pursuant to the Law for Census of 
		Population and Housing in the Republic of Bulgaria, in 2011 subject to 
		the census are residential buildings. The collected information on 
		existing buildings contains: type, location, number of floors, material 
		of which the building is constructed, the availability of solar panels, 
		year of construction, availability of a lift and number of dwellings in 
		the building. To our regret, these characteristics are considered 
		independently, e.g. the number of floors is not related to the 
		structural construction type or building material. The available 
		statistical information shows that almost more than 50% of the buildings 
		in Bulgaria were built before 1987 (National Strategic Plan for Building 
		Wastes Management and Demolishment for 2011-2014). They differ because 
		of the heterogeneity of building structural systems, materials used, the 
		construction period and number of floors. The enforcement of building 
		codes is followed for buildings constructed during the last several 
		decades. Their design complies with a certain level of seismic 
		protection predefined by the building codes and standards in effect at 
		the time of construction.
 2.1    Mapping Demographic and Social Information
		The maps of short-term statistics on residential buildings, 
		representing the newly built housing constructions (pre-fabricated, 
		brick, concrete construction, etc.) indicates the relative ratio of the 
		different type of construction in the different regions of the country 
		and might provide information on various trends in the buildings 
		construction. The maps depicting new buildings with different 
		construction for 2010 (figure 2) and 2013 (figure 3) show that in 2010 
		are built mainly concrete structures, while in 2013 are built mainly 
		brick structures. Diminishing trend of this building construction is 
		observed in the last years. The highest rate of new construction in 2010 
		is observed in the regions along the Black Sea, followed by the Plovdiv, 
		Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo regions. The trend in 2013 is almost the same 
		with the exception of the Plovdiv region, which joined the regions with 
		highest rate of construction. It is worth mentioning that Plovdiv and 
		Sofia are among the regions that are exposed to the highest seismic 
		hazard in Bulgaria.
 Further effort of our team will be targeted towards finding the relevant 
		way to tie these results with other available data for the building 
		stock and appropriate generalized vulnerability estimation. The most 
		advanced approach of assessing the vulnerability of the existing 
		buildings and structures, certainly, is to base this analysis on 
		particular computations targeted on representative buildings structural 
		systems. Due to the lack of such data, the vulnerability estimates of 
		the existing buildings stock for the purpose of this study will be based 
		either on the buildings classification, provided in the European 
		macroseismic scale EMS 1998 (Grunthal, 1998) or on the available data 
		published in the scientific literature. European Seismological 
		Commission (1998) states the differentiation of buildings into 
		vulnerability classes from A to F according to the type of building 
		structure: masonry, reinforced concrete, steel and wood. The damages of 
		the buildings under earthquake are associated with the type of the 
		structure. The Classification of damage covers five grades, starting 
		from Negligible to slight damage (Grade 1); Moderate damage (Grade 2); 
		Substantial to heavy damage (Grade 3); Very heavy damage (Grade 4); 
		ending with Destruction - Grade 5. For each intensity degree the effects 
		on population and buildings are described. Thus the vulnerability class, 
		damage level and population are integrated in the integrated 
		macroseismic intensity twelve degree scale. Suitable recent structure 
		topology for the Balkan countries was provided by the RISK UE Project, 
		in which buildings are classified according: (i) major material and 
		structural system (masonry, reinforced concrete, steel and wood); (ii) 
		number of floors and overall height – 3 classes high-, mid- and low-rise 
		and (iii) level of seismic code, used for design and construction of 
		particular building – N à no code; L à low code; M à moderate-code and H 
		à high-code (comparable with Eurocode 8).
 
 
 
  Figure 2. Map of newly built housing constructions for 2010.
 
 
 
  Figure 3. Map of newly built housing constructions for 2013.
 
 Another quantity that is indirectly related to loss evaluation and 
		earthquake insurance industry is the useful living area of the housing 
		fund.  Map of the housing fund - useful living area - for the year 
		2013 is shown in figure 4. The map representing useful living area for 
		2013 (figure 4) shows larger proportion to the cities – the largest one 
		is in Sofia (29-32 mln m2), followed by Smolyan, Kardzhali (24-29 mln 
		m2), Plovdiv (17-24 mln m2), Sliven, Varna and Burgas (11-17 mln m2). 
		Again one can see that the largest useful living area of the housing 
		fund is documented logically in the capital as well as in Plovdiv – both 
		cities fall in the zones of most severe seismic hazard in Bulgaria.
 
 
 
  Figure 4. Map of useful living area for 2013.
 
 Maps representing business statistics - number of building permits 
		issued in 2010 and 2013 are also prepared. The comparison between these 
		two maps has shown that the number of issued permits for construction of 
		administrative buildings in 2010 and 2013 (figure 5) is negligible 
		compared with that of housing and other buildings. Important indicator 
		is the growth of number of building permits in the regions, 
		characterized by recent urban sprawl and severe seismic hazard – the 
		Sofia and Plovdiv districts.
 
 Other relevant to the earthquake risk evaluation are the maps 
		representing business statistics – building sectorial statistics in 
		terms of average annual prices for housing for the years 2010 and 2013. 
		The map representing average annual prices for housing for 2010 year 
		(figure 6) shows that the highest average annual market prices are in 
		the districts with higher living and lower unemployment. These districts 
		include the biggest cites in the country such as the capital Sofia, 
		Varna, Burgas, Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo, Pleven. Varna and Burgas 
		districts are bordering the Black Sea. There are a lot of summer resorts 
		and developed tourism and industry. The central and north central 
		districts are also with high average annual market prices because of 
		good living conditions there, developed industry and agriculture. 
		Compared to the average annual prices for housing in 2010 and 2013 is 
		noticeable that the prices in some districts decreased significantly, 
		but the developed regional centers retain their standard, e.g. Sofia, 
		Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas, Ruse. Information that this type of maps 
		represents is necessary for insurance compensation in case of 
		earthquake.
 
 
 
  Figure 5. Map of the building permits number for 2013.
 
 A map representing Information Society based - household access to the 
		Internet for 2013 is shown in figure 7. Fortunately, the districts 
		exposed to the most severe earthquake hazards in Bulgaria (Sofia and 
		Plovdiv) are well equipped in terms of internet information service. It 
		might be very important that inhabitants of affected by earthquake areas 
		can be informed on time and to receive constantly updated information in 
		the case of natural disaster and particularly earthquake and/or some 
		co-seismic negative consequences. Informed Society also concerns the 
		possibilities for preventive measures based on risk related information 
		published in the Internet.
 
 Data for household access to the Internet can be considered as not 
		classified one. This means that we can speak about big data (BD) and a 
		possible manipulation with it. It could be verified, certified and GIS 
		specialist should find way how to use it. The insufficiency of current 
		software solutions and systems is supported by other researches: 
		„Typically, big data problems cannot be solved with the computing 
		resources that are available to most organizations. They require 
		clusters of computers running special applications, and might take days 
		or even weeks to complete” (Uganes, 2013). Behind the “special 
		applications” are the experts’ knowledge and experience in retrieving 
		valuable information. That is why the need of GI specialists is 
		recognized worldwide. In the past, software solutions replaced people in 
		order to avoid errors. With BD, we are turning back to the expert who is 
		invoked to propose next generation technology solutions, combining 
		multidisciplinary approaches (Bandrova et al, 2014).
 
 
 
  Figure 6. Map of average annual prices for housing for 2010
 2.2    Mapping Business Communication and Industry 
		InformationFollowing the conceptual scheme of the Information Data Set given in 
		figure 1 and the general procedure for expert earthquake risk evaluation 
		(Pashova et al., 2015, this issue) available published maps (Bandrova, 
		2008) were scanned and made available as raster images.These maps concern the urbanization process that is observed to be 
		stronger and faster in the high earthquake hazard districts. Evaluating 
		the urbanization process should go in parallel with numerous data 
		including housing information and population distribution models. Given 
		the absence of detailed housing information, one has to resort to 
		approximate models. Often villages contain fundamentally different 
		building compositions of structures than in the cities and for this 
		reason for some countries, different housing inventories are given for 
		two classes: urban and rural (Wyss, 2014). Settlements with the same 
		population numbers may have different building inventories because they 
		may be predominantly administrative, agricultural, touristic, or 
		industrial towns and villages. In parallel, maps representing the 
		transport infrastructure - density of the international, national and 
		regional network; mining and quarrying; electricity network; chemical 
		industry, hospital density have been prepared as raster maps to be 
		included in the basic dataset considered in the BN 164-14 UACEG Project.
 
 
 
  Figure 7. A map presenting household access to the Internet for 2013
 3. DATA HARMONIZATIONMaps for disaster risk assessment in case of earthquake combine 
		international, regional and local data provided by various services, 
		agencies and organizations. The data gathered from various numerous 
		sources as geographic database; topographic maps; thematic maps; 
		Disaster management plan; seismic hazard information; geological 
		information; building stock information; demographic and social 
		information; business / communications / industry information; 
		infrastructure information; statistical data, etc. is heterogenic and 
		its use for crisis management is not easy. Therefore, the data should be 
		integrated and presented in the most appropriate way to assist specific 
		tasks of participants in all stages of disaster risk assessment (Parker 
		& Stileman, 2005). In order all these data to be integrated and 
		presented on the maps it should be harmonized according to the main 
		aspects of data harmonization (Gruber et al. 2006): 
			georeferencing the information into a uniform reference system;standardizing attribute structure;standardizing object classification;standardazing level of detail;and unifying cartographic visualization. 4.      CONCLUSIONSEarthquake risk evaluation encompasses rather heterogeneous 
		information data sets. The integration of these data in a uniform data 
		base requires a lot of multi- and inter-disciplinary efforts. 
		Calibration and verification of the data sets and methods used is 
		important to continue, since to proceed further with the comparative 
		analysis of the available maps and the consequent risk evaluation in GIS 
		environment it is necessary to have at disposal compatible vector maps 
		and/or digitized raster maps with significant resolution. It would be 
		useful and interesting to perform the risk evaluations with different 
		available maps, so some useful observation in terms of sensitivity of 
		the final risk evaluation with regard to different input data sets could 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTESDr. Eng. Silvia MarinovaDr. Eng. Silvia Marinova is General secretary of Bulgarian 
		Cartographic Association and Assist. Prof. at the University of 
		Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia. She is also a member 
		of Bulgarian Chamber of Graduated Surveyors, International Society of 
		Digital Earth and International Cartographic Association - Commission on 
		Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management. She works at KartGeo 
		Ltd. as a cartographer where her main activities are map design and 
		editing. Her science interests are focused on thematic mapping for early 
		warning and disaster management, cross-border mapping, mountain 
		cartography.
 
 Prof. Temenoujka Bandrova
 Prof. Temenoujka Bandrova is the President of the Bulgarian 
		Cartographic Association and head of the Laboratory on Cartography and 
		Erasmus coordinator for the Faculty of Geodesy at the University of 
		Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia. She is Co-chair of 
		the ICA Commission of Cartography and Children (2007-2011), а member of 
		the Council board and a chair of Young Scientific Commission of 
		International Society of Digital Earth (ISDE), a member of Commissions 
		on Map Projections, on Cartography in Early Warning and Crises 
		Management – International Cartographic Association (ICA); of the 
		Association for Geospatial Information in South-East Europe (AGISEE); of 
		Editor’s group of the International Journal of Digital Earth, 
		Cartographia and Geoinformatika, Croatia. She is Project manager in 
		DataMap Ltd. where her school atlases and maps are published. She is an 
		author of 30 school atlases and more than 80 wall maps in geography and 
		history, approved by the Ministry of Education and Sciences for 
		Bulgarian schools. She published more than 100 articles, reports, 
		papers, book chapters and edited books published by Springer and ESRI 
		Press. She is the organizer of series of 5 International Conferences on 
		Cartography and GIS.
 
 Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva
 Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva is Associate Professor in the 
		Department of Computer Aided Engineering at the University of 
		Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia since 2013. She has 
		worked for more than 20 years in the Central Laboratory for Seismic 
		Mechanics and Earthquake Engineering at the Bulgarian Academy of 
		Sciences (BAS), later Earthquake Engineering Department at National 
		Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Cartography - BAS. She holds M.Sc. 
		degree in "Civil Engineering – Structural Engineer” and “Applied 
		Mathematics and Informatics” and PhD in “Solid Mechanics” in field. 
		Junior associate at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical 
		Physics – SAND Group, Trieste, Italy, 2001-2008. Her research and 
		publications are focused on topics in engineering seismology and 
		bridging engineering seismology with earthquake engineering, including 
		strong motion data analysis, seismic wave propagation modelling, 
		earthquake scenarios and seismic microzonation, dynamic analysis of 
		structures. She leads and participated in several projects in the field 
		of geodesy and geodynamics at national and international level.
 
 Eng. Stefan Bonchev
 Eng. Stefan Bonchev is an engineer at the Laboratory on 
		Cartography, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, 
		Sofia. He holds a Master's Degree in Geodesy and Cartography. His 
		scientific and professional interests are focused on 3D cartographic 
		modelling. He graduated a Training School “3D Geoinformation for 
		Disaster Managment” in 2009 by COST Action TU0801 “Semantic enrichment 
		of 3D city models for sustainable development” organized in Delft — 
		Arnhem — Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 5-9 October 2009.
 CONTACTSDr. Eng. Silvia MarinovaBulgarian Cartographic Association
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 Prof. Dr. Eng. Temenoujka Bandrova
 Bulgarian Cartographic Association
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 1046 Sofia, BULGARIA
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 Email: tbandrova@abv.bg
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 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mihaela Kouteva-Guentcheva
 Department of Computer Aided Engineering, Faculty of Structural 
		Engineering
 University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy
 1, Chr. Smirnenski Blvd.
 1046 Sofia, BULGARIA
 Tel. +359 889 327327
 Email:kouteva_fce@uacg.bg; 
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