South America Risk Assessment (SARA) Project
Background
The South America Risk Assessment (SARA) project consisted in the development of an open and uniform seismic hazard model covering the entire continent, and seismic risk profiling for the Andean countries. The project covered the compilation of earthquake catalogues, creation of exposure datasets, vulnerability functions, risk metrics, and estimation of the compounding social and economic factors that increase the physical damage and decrease the post-event capacities of populations to respond to and recover from damaging earthquake events in South America. These activities were carried out with the involvement of several local experts and stakeholders.
Objectives
The project aimed to calculate hazard and risk, and to estimate the compounding social and economic factors that increase the physical damage and decrease the post-event capacities of populations to respond to and recover from damaging earthquake events in South America, by involving local experts from throughout the region.
Results
The role of the risk team consisted in the development of exposure datasets for seven countries at three administrative levels (national, departments and counties) for the residential, industrial and commercial building stock. For a number of cities (Medellin, Cali, Bogota, Quito, Lima, Caracas, Osorno, Iquique and Rancagua), additional exposure information was collected using mobile devices and satellite imagery. A database of socio-economic indicators was also collected at the first administrative level for the same group of countries. These activities were performed in close collaboration with local experts, through the organization of two workshops in the region (Medellin 2014, Lima 2015). The risk team was also responsible for the derivation of vulnerability models, and assessment of the earthquake risk.
Scope
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela
Year
2013 - 2015
Status
Completed
Funding partners
Swiss Re
Wiki site
For more details, visit the project's Wiki site https://sara.openquake.org
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