Seismic risk assessment of hospitals in Lima city using GIS tools

Sandra Santa-Cruz, Juan Palomino, Nicola Liguori, Marco Vona, Rodrigo Tamayo

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Abstract

In this work, seismic risk assessment of hospitals in Lima city is presented. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the seismic risk of the Lima’s health system at Metropolitan scale. Seismic Risk Analysis has been carried out utilizing the Comprehensive Approach for Probabilistic Risk Assessment methodology (CAPRA). Geographic Information System (GIS) tools have been used to model the risk components: hazard, exposure and vulnerability. A total of 41 hospitals have been evaluated in order to obtain risk indicators in terms of economic losses. The results show that after an 8.2 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in the coast of Lima, 85% of hospital buildings have more than 10% of structural damage. Furthermore, the expected annual loss (EAL) is 2% of the replacement value, which is high and uncompetitive compared with the values of the insurance sector market. This study seeks to understand and evaluate the hospitals seismic risk at metropolitan level in order to define measures, priorities and actions for the future development of Lima’s health system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2017 - 17th International Conference, 2017
EditorsGiuseppe Borruso, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Bernady O. Apduhan, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha, David Taniar, Sanjay Misra, Osvaldo Gervasi, Carmelo M. Torre, Elena Stankova, Beniamino Murgante
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages354-367
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783319623979
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017 - Trieste, Italy
Duration: 3 Jul 20176 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10406 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTrieste
Period3/07/176/07/17

Keywords

  • Economic losses
  • Exposure
  • GIS
  • Public infrastructure
  • Seismic risk assessment

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