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Among the many kinds of natural and man-made disasters, earthquakes dominate with regard to their socially and economically impact on the urban environment. Seismic hazard assessment for industrial objects is of a substantial importance, because it provides valuable information for seismic safety and disaster mitigation. The main objective of the study is to integrate basic geo-datasets in thematic mapping products and to assess the seismic hazard using GIS techniques to provide a basis for disaster management of the case study of Ada Tepe in Bulgaria. GIS is applied as a valuable tool to support an effective decision-making by managing, structuring and utilizing comprehensive data for disaster prevention. Web GIS is of interest to us in the future work, because it is provided the ease for real-time access and simultaneous informed decision-making process for all stakeholders involved.
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The study was supported by Balkan Mineral and Mining EAD through the contract for provision of services with the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography—BAS.
The authors are very grateful to anonymous reviewers for useful and constructive comments, which helped to improve the manuscript.
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Vatseva, R., Solakov, D., Tcherkezova, E., Simeonova, S., Trifonova, P. (2013). Applying GIS in Seismic Hazard Assessment and Data Integration for Disaster Management. In: Zlatanova, S., Peters, R., Dilo, A., Scholten, H. (eds) Intelligent Systems for Crisis Management. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33218-0_13
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