Abstract

MOREJON, Grisel et al. Seismic risk assessment of the housing buildings of the cities Guarenas and Guatire. Rev. Fac. Ing. UCV [online]. 2014, vol.29, n.3, pp.37-50. ISSN 0798-4065.

The Guarenas and Guatire cities are the main development area of the metropolitan region of Caracas, and are exposed to the possible occurrence of an earthquake of moderate to high intensity. For this reason, the evaluation of the structural seismic response of buildings housing in these cities plays an important role in the sustainable development. According to the existing structural information, the result of this work allowed assessing the vulnerability and estimating the material losses of the existing building typologies as well as the human losses. Additionally, it proposes guidelines of structural reinforcement, for the sustainable urban development in these cities. Among the most notable results are that only 40% of the population of both municipalities live in formal buildings, more than 50% of these formal buildings and the total of the non-formal structures of both cities are evaluated as high vulnerable. All this information is mapped into a GIS for use by the authorities.

Keywords : Vulnerability; Seismic risk; Prioritization index; Structural damage; Causalities.

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