Method study of classification and gradation of earthquake disasters

• 来源期刊: 地震学报（英文版）
• 学科: 地球科学
• 年，卷（期）: 2007,（4）
• 页码范围: 454-466
• 页数: 13页
• 分类号: P315.9
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Based on data of earthquake disaster events during 1954～2005 in the Chinese mainland, the classification and gradation of earthquake disasters have been studied by multivariate statistical analysis. Three fundamental structures of earthquake disasters have been found and an FAPE (factor analysis-principal component-equamax rotation) classification model and an HCWS (hierarchical cluster-ward method-seuclid) gradation model have been constructed. Earthquake disasters are divided into eight classes and five grades respectively in the models, which give a reasonable explanation to the phenomenon of earthquake disasters.