Publication information

Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 7811

Hazus-MH 2.1 Canada Application and Databases: Earthquake and Flood Module

N.L. Hastings, W. Chow, and C.L. Wagner  
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources Canada, 2015

doi:10.4095/297295
Publications in this series have not been edited; they are released as submitted by the author.

Recommended citation

Hastings, N.L., Chow, W., and Wagner, C.L.,  2015. Hazus-MH 2.1 Canada Application and Databases: Earthquake and Flood Module; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7811, 1 .zip file. doi:10.4095/297295

Contents

This publication contains the Hazus-MH 2.1 Canada Application and provincial database: Earthquake and Flood Module. It is accompanied by the Hazus-MH 2.1 Canada User and Technical Manual: Earthquake Module” (Open File 7474) and the Hazus-MH 2.1 Canada User and Technical Manual: Flood Module” (Open File 7811) .

The Hazus-MH 2.1 Canada Application is a Canadian adaptation of the US Hazus-MH 2.1 Application. The accompanying Databases include Canadian demographic information and asset inventory for all the Provinces and Territories. Hazus remains is a powerful tool, additional documentation is published by the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency at http://www.fema.gov/library/index.jsp the accompanying Canadian Hazus User and Technical Manuals compliments other existing US Hazus manuals. The Canadian manuals provide guidance on the differences and adaptations for the Canadian user, as well as support to enable the running of Hazus in a Canadian study region. Documented bugs and particularities are identified for the user, along with possible solutions.

The website http://hazuscanada.ca/ contains additional resources to support the Canadian users, including information about the Canadian Hazus User Group (CanHUG) monthly calls. These regularly scheduled teleconferences are held to provide users with more information on using Canadian Hazus, as well as opportunities to share success and troubleshooting stories with other Canadian Hazus users.

Online courses are also available for a very reasonable price on the esri.com website http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm?fa=search.results&searchterm=hazus.

The email address info@hazuscanada.ca may be used to contact the Canadian Hazus support team with any questions and Canadian Hazus experiences. 

The Hazus-MH 3.1 Canada Application is an 'Autoplay' product for Microsoft Windows XP and 7. To launch, please check the System requirements section below, read Chapter 2 Getting Started in “of_7474.pdf” (Hazus-MH 2.1 Canada User and Technical Manual: Earthquake Module), adjust the computer settings as needed, navigate to the Application directory, and double-click on ‘setup.exe’. To load the default demographics and asset inventory databases, please refer to section 2.4.3 Loading Canadian Inventory Data in the Manual.

Export study regions before uninstalling previous versions of Hazus Canada

Directory structure

\	Contains this readme_OF7811.rtf file
\Databases	Contains directories for Provincial and Territorial Databases* and syBoundary.mdb file
\Databases\AB	Each Provincial Database File contains:
	bndrygbs.mdb
	EF.mdb
	flAg.mdb
	flVeh.mdb
	HPFL.mdb
	MSH.mdb
	TRN.mdb
	UTIL.mdb

* A database directory for each of the Provinces and Territories includes similarly named database files for:
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia
Nunavut
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Yukon

\Templates\CDMS
The workaround, CDMS_Building_Aggregate_Template.mdb, is a personal geodatabase, which the user will need to fill in with the data about the local buildings.  The geodatabase has a Macro which will aggregate the local data and prepare it for import into CDMS.

\Templates\UDF	
Importing building data to the User Defined Facilities inventory in an existing study region using the UDF_Template_Floods.mdb provided, is a better way to ensure that proper data field formats are followed.  The table UserDefinedSample provides the fields and input parameters that are required or optional, to import buildings into the UDF inventory.

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System requirements

PC with 486 or greater processor, or Mac® with OS® X v. 10.2.2 or later; Adobe® Reader® v. 6.0 or later; video resolution of 1078 x 768 or higher.

ArcGIS 10.0 Service Pack 2 or 3 (not guaranteed to work with Service Pack 3).

ArcGIS is a PC based program and is the basis for Hazus. If you want to run Hazus and ArcGIS on a Mac, you will need to use a virtual PC on the Mac operating system.

Hazus-2.1 Canada Application must be installed on a local drive (not on a shared server). Regional and Language Options / Region and Language settings MUST be set to English (United States).

Please read Chapter 2 Getting Started in “Hazus-MH 2.1 Canada User and Technical Manual: Earthquake Module” before installing Hazus-2.1 Canada Application.

Author contact information

Nicky Hastings (Nicky.Hastings@canada.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
Suite 1500 605 Robson St. Vancouver
Canada, V6B 5J3

Availability information

This publication is available for free download through GEOSCAN (http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/).