This study presents a number of earthquake scenarios for unreinforced masonry structures located in the cities of Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, where 12.9 million of Colom [...]

State-of-the-art methods for the assessment of building fragility consider the structural capacity and seismic demand variability in the estimation of the probability of [...]

In the last decade several software packages for seismic hazard and risk assessment have been released, thus making it easier for hazard and risk modellers to run complex [...]

The city of Quito (Ecuador) reflects the complexity of earthquake risk in capital cities of South America: a substantial sized population, a considerable seismic hazard ( [...]

The informal building’s construction is associated to Lima’s population growth, especially at the sub-urban areas. In Peru, confined masonry is the most common struct [...]

Current seismic design codes require buildings to be designed for a given ground motion intensity level that is determined from a prescribed return period. The implicit a [...]

The OpenQuake-engine is the open-source software for seismic hazard and risk analysis developed by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation. This paper describes some [...]

This paper presents a probabilistic seismic risk assessment for the residential building stock in South American countries prone to earthquakes: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile [...]