Probabilistic assessment of earthquake damage and loss for the City of Tabriz, Iran

Due to locating on seismic belt and its seismic condition, Iran country, is very sensitive to earthquake. Because of estimating importance of damages and casualties through earthquake, many countries have selected different methods for seismic hazard analysis. Many of these methods are based on earthquake severity. Although damage function majority of these methods is based on seismic data, structural parameters are not considered. The objective of current study is to evaluate the seismic vulnerability buildings in Tabriz city based on the Hazus method and geographical information system (GIS) and level of damage and victims is calculated for different kinds of structures, separately, in the whole region of investigation. The open source software SELENA is applied to perform probabilistic loss estimates. Due to the lack of studies providing required information from structural point of view in our country, and the existence of similarity between structural codes of Iran and that of United States, HAZUS-MH (Hazard Us – Multi Hazard Loss) structures coefficients are used. The results indicated provides if an earthquake based on standard 2800 occurs, the number of casualties would be 91000 persons and economic losses are 74970864578.49914$

Pushover Analysis for Plan Irregular Building Structures

Nonlinear static procedures (NSPs), also known as "pushover methods", represent the most used tool in the professional practice for assessment of seismic performance of building structures. Most of the methods subscribed by major seismic codes for seismic analysis of new or existing buildings have been originally defined for simple regular structures

Do commercial banks of Malaysia use loan loss provision to signal their earnings, return and cash flow?

Loan-Loss Provisions (LLP) are used as a tool to control credit risk so are directly related to loan loss reserves. Managers use LLP to achieve certain objectives such as earnings and capital management and as a mechanism of signaling view to investors, shareholders and users of financial report. Recently, considerable attention has been paid to signaling view of LLP. Thus, it would be appropriate to examine the signaling view of LLP by examining the relationship between LLP and future earnings, return and cash flow in commercial banks of Malaysia. This study presented in this research investigated 12 commercial banks regulated by Bank Negara Malaysia for the period of 2004-2011, using a panel data approach. The result of this study indicates a significant positive relationship between the LLP and future returns. However, there is not enough evidence to support the positive relationship between LLP and future earnings and cash flow