Vulnerabilidad sísmica de viviendas unifamiliares existentes de una Zona Urbano – Residencial en Anconcito, Ecuador

Abstract

The lack of planning is very evident in the urban environment of our country, which has caused the residents to build their homes in unsuitable places. Considering these variables and the application of the criteria of the Ecuadorian Construction Standard NEC-2015, it is determined that the zones of our Litoral are in a very high risk of seismic hazard. The population of study is is focused on Zone 3 of Anconcito - Ecuador, where the inhabitants have houses with more than three decades of useful life and which are structurally not well defined, increasing the situation of vulnerability and danger. The methodology to determine the current situation of housing in the area is carried out by means of the visual inspection method of FEMA-P154, which represents a vulnerability index by means of forms required for the area.