Application of analytical hierarchy process in evaluation of cities' ability for earthquake disaster prevention and reduction

Cities' ability reducing earthquake disasters is a complex system involving numerous factors,moreover the research on evaluating cities' ability reducing earthquake disasters relates to multi-subject,such as earthquake science,social science,economical science and so on.In this paper,the fragmentary AHP(analytical hierarchy process),and the indeterminate AHP was used to assess the cities' ability reducing earthquake disasters.The AHP easily solves the problem by reducing the complex object to several parts.It can evaluate cities' ability reducing earthquake disasters absolutely and quantitatively and consequently instruct the decision-making on reducing cities' earthquake disasters loss.