Patent ID: 8706654

Claim:
An earthquake damage prediction and prevention system for determining an impact or damage caused by an earthquake to objects associated with different geographical locations, the system comprising: a central unit including a filter module to select and collect earthquake related data of a plurality of network units and a network interface module to access at least one of the network units by the filter module; an early warning unit, wherein the early warning unit is a grid of decentralized controlled earthquake detection centers and wherein the geographical locations are determined based on transmitted signals of the early warning unit; a storing unit to store at least one impact ratio table, the impact ratio table having geographical and/or topographical data coordinates of the different geographical locations; an intensity calculation module including a coordinates processor to generate geometric distances of the geographical locations from a hypocenter/epicenter, wherein the intensity calculation module includes a propagation calculation unit to generate local intensity values based upon the generated geometric distances and a given earthquake magnitude by a stored parameterization including variable weight parameters, wherein the generated geometric distances are stored and assigned to the corresponding geographical locations in the impact ratio table; a user interface to receive from a plurality of users at least one of the variable weight parameters and/or at least one impact ratio for different earthquake intensity levels indicative of the impact or damage caused by an earthquake to an object and/or at least one object parameter defining earthquake exposed structures of the object; and an index calculation module to generate an impact index for the geographical locations by determining in each case from the impact ratio table the impact ratio for a local intensity at the respective geographical location, and add up the impact ratios weighted in each case by a weighting factor assigned to the respective geographical location, wherein the index calculation module weighs the variable weight parameters and/or generated impact ratios and/or object parameter based on those received by the plurality of users.