Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
31 Mar 2001, 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Abstract
Medellin is an important industrial city of Colombia, which is the capital of Antioquia province (department) and it is located in the northwest of this country. It has a very high population density about 2,000,000 people and an area of just 100 km2. Its location makes it very susceptible to suffer earthquakes and its great topographical and geological diversity stand out the importance of local effects associated to earthquakes. These reasons led to carry out the Medellin Seismic Instrumentation and Microzonation Study, which main purpose was to develop and propose new provisions for designing and constructing new buildings in Medellin. The results of this project are also very useful to determine potential damage of existing constructions during earthquake motions. This paper describes the detail methodology of the Medellin Seismic Instrumentation and Microzonation Project and discusses the final results of this study.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2001 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Estrada, Gloria and Villarraga, Manuel, "Methodology and Final Results of the Medellin Seismic Instrumentation and Microzonation Project" (2001). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 5.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session11/5
Methodology and Final Results of the Medellin Seismic Instrumentation and Microzonation Project
San Diego, California
Medellin is an important industrial city of Colombia, which is the capital of Antioquia province (department) and it is located in the northwest of this country. It has a very high population density about 2,000,000 people and an area of just 100 km2. Its location makes it very susceptible to suffer earthquakes and its great topographical and geological diversity stand out the importance of local effects associated to earthquakes. These reasons led to carry out the Medellin Seismic Instrumentation and Microzonation Study, which main purpose was to develop and propose new provisions for designing and constructing new buildings in Medellin. The results of this project are also very useful to determine potential damage of existing constructions during earthquake motions. This paper describes the detail methodology of the Medellin Seismic Instrumentation and Microzonation Project and discusses the final results of this study.
