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Hurricane Harvey — A Damage Assessment of Texas’ Central Gulf Coast

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Publication Date
Start Date
2017-09-02
End Date
2017-09-05

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Patterson, S.F., Fovenyessy, S.N., and Mooney, W.D., 2019, Hurricane Harvey — A Damage Assessment of Texas’ Central Gulf Coast: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P92LKTOB.

Summary

This data set serves as a damage scale that was created to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. The damage scale ranges from 1 (undamaged) to 5 (total structure collapse, destroyed). A score of 1 was given to structures that had no damage, a score of 2 was given to structures with minor damage, a score of 3 was given to structures with moderate damage, a score of 4 was given to structures with severe damage, and a score of 5 was given to structures that were destroyed. To account for the variety and complexity of damage observed, half-point increments (for example, 4.5) are included and outlined in the data set. Types of structures that can be scored are residential structures which included one-story, multi-story, [...]

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Hurricane Harvey-Tables.xlsx 837.04 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
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Purpose

The data was created because it was determined there were no sufficient damage scales for the purpose of the research, to provide a way to view the number of photographs that were available for each location and then show how many of the photographs were used in the analysis, and a way to summarize the average damage scores for each location and what type of structure was given a damage score for each of the locations investigated in the damage survey..

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