Climate and environmental protection modern energy Priority Research Area POB6

POB6. Scientific Seminar: Bridging Public Perception and Seismic Hazard Mapping. A PMT-GIS Framework […], 12. Nov. 2025, 12:00 p.m.

We cordially invite you to a Joint Scientific Seminar organized by:

• Department of Geoengineering and Raw Materials Extraction,
• 6. Priority Research Area of the Silesian University of Technology,
• Geomechanics, Mining and Tunneling Section of the Mining Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Katowice Dept.

The speakers will be guests from Universiti Utara Malaysia in Malaysia:

Nur Suhaili binti Mansor and Hapini bin Awang (Institute for Advanced and Smart Digital Opportunities, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia)

Title of the presentation:

Bridging Public Perception and Seismic Hazard Mapping. A PMT-GIS Framework for Türkiye.

Date and place:

November 12, 2025 (Wednesday), 12:00 p.m.

Room 450, 2nd floor

Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering, and Industrial Automation, Akademicka 2A, Gliwice

The presentation will be held in English. A discussion will follow the presentation.

Seminar topic description:

The seminar covers an integrated approach to seismic risk perception and hazard mapping for urban areas in Turkey, combining Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) with GIS tools and multi-criteria spatial analysis. Prof. Nur Suhaili binti Mansor, a GIS and remote sensing researcher at the Institute for Advanced and Smart Digital Opportunities (IASDO) at the School of Computing UUM, introduces the methodological module: data acquisition and harmonization, vulnerability indicator construction, and integration of decision models in a GIS environment for vulnerability and exposure mapping. Her achievements include co-authoring works on landslide hazard mapping and natural disaster resilience, which provides a good basis for adapting weighting schemes and validating maps in real-world scenarios, including those in Turkey.

Prof. Hapini bin Awang, director of IASDO and specialist in digital transformation and evaluation of e-learning systems, deals with, among other things, the operationalization of PMT in social research: questionnaire design, modeling of perceived threat and self-efficacy roles, and analysis. He studies the mechanisms of protective intentions and the integration of results with spatial layers through geocoding and perception interpolation. His experience in the analysis of technology and information/IT system adoption is used to build reliability scales and metrics and to select regression and SEM models for survey data.

The PMT-GIS framework, in this case for Turkey, includes: (1) the construction of maps of seismic hazard intensity and secondary effects based on instrumental data and relevant literature; (2) measurement of PMT components in exposed populations; (3) coupling of perception models with hazard and exposure layers; (4) cross-validation using AUC indicators and sensitivity analysis; (5) generation of intervention priority maps and risk communication scenarios for local authorities and services.

The study section will identify metropolitan areas of Istanbul and regions with high tectonic activity, allowing PMT results to be compared with transport risk maps and previous GIS studies for Turkey. The seminar is embedded in the UUM digital strategy and IASDO mission, emphasizing the role of research centers in combining data science, information systems, and public strategies for disaster risk reduction.

We look forward to welcoming you to the seminar. Please forward this invitation to interested members of your teams and departments.