Quick Introduction to the RiskScape Tool
This tutorial is designed to demonstrate RiskScape’s ease of use by quickly taking you through a simple impact model selection, run and data aggregation sequence.
If you are not familiar with RiskScape this should be the first tutorial you complete, however, please note that explanatory text is not provided for all the features you may see or come across. Other tutorials providing more detail on RiskScape software features and model use in natural hazard management scenarios are available below.
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Introduction to the RiskScape Tool
This tutorial is designed to quickly familiarise you with RiskScape’s Graphical User Interface (GUI), Model Run Sequence and Data Aggregation options. This should be one of the first RiskScape tutorials you complete as it covers all the basic steps required to run an impact or risk model and then view and export the results.
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1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake: What if it Happened Today?
This tutorial excercise uses an earthquake hazard model produced for the 1931 7.8M Hawkes Bay earthquake event and examines some of the potential impacts to the current Hawkes Bay building stock and human population, using Riskscape functionalities.
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Hawke’s Bay Tsunami: Building and People Impacts from a Local Source Tsunami
The Hawke's Bay region is potentially vulnerable to local source tsunami events. Local source tsunamis are often of greater magnitude (e.g. wave run-up/inundation depth) at the affected location than regional or remote source tsunamis and give local communities in close proximity to the tsunami generation source little time to evacuate.
Local tsunamis therefore pose a significant threat to coastal populations and assets. This tutorial uses Riskscape to determine some of the potential building and human impacts that may arise for Hawke's Bay coastal communities from a local sources tsunami generated off the Hawke's Bay coast.
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200 Year ARI Heathcote River Flood Event: Mitigating Building Impacts in Christchurch City
A common approach to mitigating flood impacts on buildings is to raise building floor level above a specified flood design level. The current building stock within a floodplain can provide guidence on the potential reduction of impacts by using this techniques for specific ARI flood events.
This tutorial uses RiskScape's hazard mitigation tool to raise floor levels of current buildings within the 200 year ARI floodplain and to examine the potential reduction in flood impact costs.
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RiskScape Asset Builder Tool
This tutorial will provide an overview of the Asset Builder Tool and its functions, which enable asset datasets to be turned into RiskScape asset modules.
For the purpose of this tutorial we will create an asset module for a synthetic West Coast (South Island, New Zealand) building dataset and then plug the module into RiskScape to model impacts for the 1968 Inangahua Earthquake event.
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*Note: These tutorials are for demonstration purposes only and not intended for use in informing natural hazard management activities. Please contact RiskScape for more information on using the RiskScape model for natural hazard management activities.
*Note: Graphics presented in the tutorials may become outdated over time due to RiskScape software updates. This will not affect your ability to complete the tutorial, and graphics will be updated when possible.
*Note: RiskScape welcomes any suggestions on the useability and format of the tutorials, along with requests for new tutorials investigating specific Riskscape software features or natural hazard management issues. If you are a registered user please email any suggestions or comments to info@riskscape.org.nz.