Models and Illustrative Case Study for Integrating Household Decisions in Quantifying the Seismic Resilience of Communities Subjected to Earthquake Sequences

A distributed simulation model is presented that integrates post-earthquake household decisions into quantifying the seismic resilience of communities subjected to earthquake sequences. A case study of a prototype community that comprises households with different socio-economic characteristics in accordance with a typical small U.S. community is used to show the influence that household decisions have on the overall seismic resilience of the community. The case study demonstrates the flexibility of the distributed computation scheme in linking models rooted in different disciplines.