What's New in MR3
FEMA, along with NIBS, is pleased to announce the latest release of HAZUS-MH. In this newest version, MR3, the Flood model will run building analyses faster, and users will import user-supplied flood maps and flood-depth grids. The Hurricane model boasts an updated and revised historical database that includes storms from 2004 and 2005. New vulnerability functions will permit calculation of additional losses to manufactured housing due to tree blowdown. Changes to the Earthquake model include adjustable population distribution parameters in the casualty module and the elimination of partial ignitions in the fire-following module.
Flood Model
Due to numerous changes in the hazard that impacts final results, it is recommended that users build and analyze new study regions rather than import existing study regions. The most important of these changes are shown below.
Data
- Commercial data updated to Dun & Bradstreet 2006
- Building valuations updated to R.S. Means 2006
- Building counts based on census housing unit counts for RES1 (single-family dwellings)
- RES2 (manufactured housing) instead of calculated building counts
Methodology
- User-supplied flood maps and flood-depth grids imported into the "quick look" and "enhanced quick look" functions
- Optimized building analysis
- Revised hazard menu graphic user interface
Other Features
- Operation on the ArcView 9.2 Service Pack (SP) 2 platform
- Operation on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express
- Operation on the MDAC 2.8 SP1 data access engine from Microsoft
- Operation on FarPoint Spread 7 spreadsheet
- Operation on Crystal Reports XI
- Enhancements to the existing aggregation routines to reflect improved procedures for processing study region information
Earthquake Model
Data
- 2002 aggregated data for square footage, building count, building exposure, content exposure, and demographics
- New site-specific inventory data (2000 or later)
- 2002 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) probabilistic ground-shaking maps and new USGS attenuation functions
- Multifamily dwellings (RES3) are split into six categories:
- Duplex (RES3A)
- Triplex/Quads (RES3B)
- Multidwellings—5 to 9 units (RES3C)
- Multidwellings—10 to 19 units (RES3D)
- Multidwellings—20 to 49 units (RES3E)
- Multidwellings—50+ units (RES3F)
- Expansion of attributes in the Demographics data (The following categories were added: gender information, more income brackets, number of students, and building count by age.)
- Precompiled default replacement values for all site-specific data
Methodology
- Direct usage of square footage, building exposure, and content exposure in building damage and economic loss computations
- Streamlined restoration functions for pipelines (Now all pipelines are restored in the same ways as potable water pipelines.)
- Streamlined damage for bridges
- Pushover analysis for damage computations used by lifeline buildings
- Facility added in the Scenario Wizard to set one soil type, liquefaction susceptibility category, landslide susceptibility category, and water depth for whole study region
- Show Current Scenario dialog modified to view current hazard settings for soil, liquefaction, landslide, and water depth
- Occupancy mapping scheme viewing by Specific Occupancy to General Building Type relation and by such relations as General Building Type to Specific Building Type distribution
- Streamlined economic parameters into inventory replacement values and loss ratios by damage states
Other Features
- New three-tier application architecture that can be easily ported for Internet-based implementation
- New Hazard Query Wizard to handle complex relational queries with the underlying Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) database
- Feature added to enable third-party modules (Currently, ALOHA/MARPLOT and FLDWV/FLDVIEW have been enabled. Refer to appendix L and appendix M of Users Manual for details.)
Hurricane Model
Data
- Updated valuations for the general building stock
Methodology
- Capability to assess hurricane mitigation options for multiunit buildings and manufactured housing
- Capability to define hurricanes with National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts/advisories downloaded directly from the Internet
Other Features
- Operation on the ArcGIS 9 SP1 platform
- Capability to utilize third-party tools
- Optimized software for rapid loss assessment
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