HAZUS-MH MR2
What's New in HAZUS-MH MR2?
Earthquake Model
Data
- 2005 valuation data for all occupancy classes.
- Means location factors for residential and non-residential occupancies on a county basis.
- Updated and validated valuation data for single-family residential housing and manufactured housing based on comparisons with other national databases.
- Zeros substituted for any negative values calculated for the daytime, nighttime, working commercial, working industrial and commuting populations.
- Construction age and values by decade for every census block with floor area (square footage).
Methodology
- Optimized Building Damage Module that uses seven combinations of design levels and building quality levels (reduced from nine) as follows.
- High – Code
- Moderate – Code
- Low – Code
- Pre – Code
- Special High – Code
- Special Moderate – Code
- Special Low – Code
- Technical Manual Chapter 4 guidance for selecting attenuation functions.
- Corrected Wyoming and Montana default mapping schemes.
Other Features
- Updated BIT that is coordinated with the seven combinations of design levels and building quality levels in the Building Damage Module.
- Keyboard operation of all user interface operations with some exceptions.
- Operation on the ArcView 9.1 SP1 platform.
- Certified on Windows XP SP2.
- Operation on the MDAC 2.8 data access engine from Microsoft.
Hurricane Model
Data
- 2005 valuation data for all occupancy classes.
- Means location factors for residential and non-residential occupancies on a county basis.
- Updated and validated valuation data for single-family residential housing and manufactured housing based on comparisons with other national databases.
- Zeroes substituted for any negative values calculated for the daytime, nighttime, working commercial, working industrial and commuting populations.
- Construction age and values by decade for every census block with floor area (square footage).
Methodology
- Availability of mitigation analysis options for all building classes and capability to specify the percentages of each building class that have one or more mitigation features.
- Capability to estimate tree debris weight or volume that is likely to be collected and discarded at public expense.
- Capability through an “Automatic Outputs” tool in the analysis options window to specify a standard set of summary reports and map layers that will be generated after each analysis and automatically exported to the study region folder.
- Capability to generate a range, representing the 5th and 95th percentiles, of potential damage and loss estimates for a given hurricane forecast, based on track and intensity errors in forecast advisories issued during the past 12 years, and to include the results in a new rapid loss summary report.
- Minor adjustments to the Hurricane Model Summary Reports to improve consistency among the three models.
Other Features
- Keyboard operation of all user interface operations with some exceptions.
- Operation on the ArcView 9.1 SP1 platform.
- Certified on Windows XP SP2.
- Operation on the MDAC 2.8 data access engine from Microsoft.
Flood Model
Data
- 2005 valuation data for all occupancy classes.
- Means location factors for residential and non-residential occupancies are on a county basis.
- Updated and validated valuation data for single-family residential housing and manufactured housing based on comparisons with other national databases.
- Zeros substituted for any negative values calculated for the daytime, nighttime, working commercial, working industrial and commuting populations.
- Construction age and values by decade for every census block with floor area (square footage).
Methodology
- Capability to create study regions larger than four counties using the full version of SQL Server. (The 90,000 census block limit, which approximates four counties, is still applicable to study regions created with SQL Server MSDE with its 2GB size limit.)
Other Features
- Keyboard operation of all user interface operations with some exceptions.
- Operation on the ArcView 9.1 SP1 platform.
- Certified on Windows XP SP2.
- Operation on the MDAC 2.8 data access engine from Microsoft.
Last Modified: Thursday, 04-Jun-2009 13:41:10 EDT
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