# An Alternative Procedure for the Description of Seismic Intensity Parameter-Based Damage Potential
## 2 Methods
### Damage Indices
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline
**RSN** & **Seismic Event** & **Station** & **Magnitude** & \begin{tabular}{c} **Hypocenter** \\ **Depth** \\ **(km)** \\ \end{tabular} & \
\begin{tabular}{c} **Epicentral** \\ **Distance** \\ **(km)** \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} **V\({}_{\text{s30}}\)** \\ **(m/s)** \\ \end{tabular} & **Components** \\ \hline
585 & Baja California & Cerro Prieto & 5.50 & 6.00 & 3.69 & 471.53 & 161, 251 \\
619 & Whititer & Garvey Res.—Control & 5.99 & 14.60 & 2.86 & 468.18 & 60, 330 \\  & Narrows-01 & Bldg & & & & \\
708 & Whititer & Altadena—Eaton & 5.27 & 13.30 & 13.04 & 375.16 & 0, 90 \\  & Narrows-02 & Canyon & & & & \\
727 & Superstition & Superstition Mtn & 6.54 & 9.00 & 7.50 & 362.38 & 45, 135 \\  & Hills-02 & Camera & & & & \\
779 & Loma Prieta & LGPC & 6.93 & 17.48 & 18.46 & 594.83 & 0, 90 \\
802 & Loma Prieta & Saratoga—Aloha Ave & 6.93 & 17.48 & 27.23 & 380.89 & 0, 90 \\
818 & Georgia, USSR & Iri & 6.20 & 6.00 & 40.23 & 437.72 & X, Y \\  & Erzican, Turkey & Erzincan & 6.69 & 9.00 & 8.97 & 352.05 & 0, 90 \\  & Cape & Cape Mendocino & 7.01 & 9.50 & 10.36 & 567.78 & 0, 90 \\  & Mendocino & & Shelter Cove Airport & 7.01 & 9.50 & 36.28 & 518.98 & 0, 90 \\
864 & Landers & Joshua Tree & 7.28 & 7.00 & 13.67 & 379.32 & 0, 90 \\
881 & Landers & Morong Valley Fire & 7.28 & 7.00 & 21.34 & 396.41 & 45, 135 \\  & & Station & & & & \\
901 & Big Bear-01 & Big Bear Lake—Civic & 6.46 & 13.00 & 10.15 & 430.36 & 0, 270 \\  & & Center & & & & \\
963 & Northridge-01 & Castaic—Old Ridge & 6.69 & 17.50 & 40.68 & 450.28 & 0, 90 \\  & & Route & & & & \\
982 & Northridge-01 & Jensen Filter Plant & 6.69 & 17.50 & 12.97 & 373.07 & 22, 292 \\
1111 & Kobe, Japan & Nishi-Akashi & 6.90 & 17.90 & 8.70 & 609.00 & 0, 90 \\
1114 & Kobe, Japan & Port Island (0 m) & 6.90 & 17.90 & 19.25 & 198.00 & 0, 90 \\
1231 & Chi-Chi, Taiwan & CHY080 & 7.62 & 8.00 & 31.65 & 496.21 & 0, 90 \\
1504 & Taiwan & TCU067 & 7.62 & 8.00 & 28.70 & 433.63 & 0, 90 \\
1618 & Duzce, Turkey & Lamont 531 & 7.14 & 14.00 & 27.74 & 638.39 & 0, 90 \\
1623 & Stone Canyon & Melendy Ranch & 4.81 & 8.00 & 10.19 & 425.11 & 61, 331 \\  & & Rancho & & & & \\
1632 & Upland & Cucamonga—Law and & 5.63 & 4.49 & 12.19 & 390.18 & 0, 90 \\  & & Foothill and Haven & & & & \\
1633 & Manjil, Iran & Abbar & 7.37 & 16.00 & 40.43 & 723.95 & L, T \\
1676 & Northridge-04 & Castaic—Old Ridge & 5.93 & 9.83 & 26.95 & 450.28 & 0, 90 \\  & & Route & & & & \\
1734 & Northridge-06 & Sun Valley—Sunland & 5.28 & 13.09 & 10.04 & 393.67 & 230, 320 \\
1787 & Hector Mine & Hector & 7.13 & 14.80 & 26.53 & 726.00 & 0, 90 \\
1948 & Anza-02 & La Quinta—Bermudas & 4.92 & 15.20 & 26.88 & 360.32 & 0, 90 \\  & and Durango & & & & & \\
2383 & Chi-Chi, Taiwan-02 & TCU067 & 5.90 & 8.00 & 33.94 & 433.63 & 0, 90 \\
2495 & Chi-Chi, Taiwan-03 & CHY080 & 6.20 & 7.80 & 29.48 & 496.21 & 0, 90 \\
3217 & Chi-Chi, Taiwan-05 & TCU129 & 6.20 & 10.00 & 40.98 & 511.18 & 0, 90 \\
3507 & Chi-Chi, Taiwan-06 & TCU129 & 6.30 & 16.00 & 33.15 & 511.18 & 0, 90 \\
3689 & Whititer & Big Tijunga, Angeles & 5.27 & 13.30 & 27.52 & 550.11 & 262, 352 \\  & Narrows-02 & Nat F & & & & \\
3733 & Whititer & Pasadena—Old House & 5.27 & 13.30 & 12.25 & 397.27 & 0, 90 \\
3748 & Carp & & & & & & \\ Mendocino & Fermdale Fire Station & 7.01 & 9.50 & 27.85 & 387.95 & 0, 270 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 2: _Cont._This study focuses on utilizing Global Damage Indices, which, for simplicity's sake, will be referenced as DIs for the remainder of the article. Three well-known DIs have been investigated, each for different reasons, which will be explained in the following. The Normalized Maximum Inter-story Drift Ratio (NMISDR) is the value of the MISDR [16], i.e., is the ratio of lateral displacement relative to story height divided by the threshold value of inter-story drift at collapse:  
\[\text{NMISDR}=\frac{\left|\text{u}\right|_{\text{max}}}{\text{h}}.\frac{1}{ \text{MISDR}_{\text{threshold}}} \tag{1}\]  
where h is the story height.