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Seismic vulnerability assessment of the municipality of Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic
(Santo Domingo : Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, 2023) Gonzalez, Omar; Muñoz, José; Germoso, Claudia; Benito, Belén; Omarbekov, Beknur
The municipality of Santo Domingo Este (SDE) is one of the populations of priority interest for a seismic risk study, since it is one of the most populated municipalities in the country, with an area of 123 km2 and a population approximately 2.5 million inhabitants. Although a seismic vulnerability assessment at the scale of a large territory, as is the case of SDE, is very difficult to carry out taking into account the individual characteristics of each building, this study proposes a methodology that allows us to obtain the characterization of vulnerability in SDE for the year 2021, as close to reality as possible. This study is proposed based on the information obtained by field survey and analysis of satellite images. A sampling was also carried out through a field survey aimed at identifying the main construction typologies and calibrating the results obtained with multispectral images and LIDAR data. The expected result is an exposure database that provides a classification of building typologies characteristic of the study area.