Determination of earthquake-risky areas in Yalova City Center (Marmara region, Turkey) using GIS-based multicriteria decision-making techniques (analytical hierarchy process and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution)

• Published in: Natural hazards (Dordrecht) Vol. 96; no. 3; pp. 999 - 1018
• Main Authors: Yavuz Kumlu, Kadriye Burcu, Tüdeş, Şule
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis; Analytic hierarchy process; Base and superstructure; Civil Engineering; Criteria; Decision analysis; Decision making; Decision support systems; Disaster management; Disaster risk; Disasters; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Earthquakes; Emergency preparedness; Environmental Management; Environmental risk; Geographic information systems; Geographical information systems; Geological mapping; Geophysics/Geodesy; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hierarchies; Hydrogeology; Information systems; Mitigation; Multiple criterion; Natural Hazards; Original Paper; Risk; Risk management; Satellite navigation systems; Seismic activity; Similarity; Superstructures; Urban planning; Disaster mitigation; Earthquake-based urban planning; Marmara region; GIS-based MCDM
• ISSN: 0921-030X; 1573-0840
• DOI: 10.1007/s11069-019-03583-7

Disaster mitigation as a pre-disaster measure within the scope of disaster risk management is significant in the sense of reducing the adverse effects of earthquakes in the context of earthquake-sensitive risk planning. In the urban planning context, the existence of numerous decision makers and alternatives, which are depending on many criteria, makes decision-making process difficult. This difficulty was overcomed through geographical information systems (GIS). In the context of GIS-based multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) analysis, we used analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) to determine earthquake-risky areas in Yalova City Center. First, AHP analysis related to geological and superstructure/infrastructure criteria was conducted and two separate AHP maps were obtained. Then, we conducted TOPSIS analysis to consider both criteria in the sense of earthquake risk-sensitive planning. Then, overall earthquake risk map obtained which could be used as an input for disaster mitigation processes.