COMMENT ON THE EARTHQUAKE RISK DEGREE RANKING OF SOME CHINESE PROVINCIAL CAPITALS

The Earthquake Risk Degree Ranking of Some Chinese provincial capitals, published in Chinese National Geography(CNG)(Jun.2008), brings great social response and causes the public paying more attention to earthquake risk.The three factors to influence the city earthquake risk degree in this paper, which is Intensity factor of causing disaster, vulnerability index of hazard bearing bodies and response ability index respectively, is relatively comprehensive, however, the datum used is not from published academic paper but from a master degree thesis.Study shows that the earthquake risk degree is irrelevant to equivalent magnitude of near source earthquake, the vulnerability factor should consider aseismic capability, and the response ability should not include the factors of evacuation and rescue force, etc.Thus, the expression in the paper is inconsistent with its chart datum.So we believe that the paper lacks scientific and rigorous demonstration.