Elaboración de un manual de usuario del programa “RCrisis” y su aplicación en el caso de amenazas sísmicas en el cantón Quito, provincia Pichincha

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to incorporate a tool that facilitates the work of future users regarding the management of the R-Crisis software, for which the application of a seismic analysis model applied to Ecuador is required. For the execution of the same one it is necessary to know and to understand each one of the terms that the data requires, for that reason before giving step to the process of elaboration of the manual the collected theoretical information must be reviewed as a complement of the following project. Regarding the elaboration of the user's manual applied to the city of Quito as a first part, it is necessary to obtain data such as: geographic coordinates of the seismogenic sources and faults of Ecuador, seismological parameters of the same (except for ꞵ, obtained from the Gutenberg-Richter law) being the same extracted from the portal of the Geophysical Institute of the National Polytechnic School. Besides being necessary to have the coordinates of the analysis site (obtained from google earth pro) as well as the shapefile of Ecuador (obtained from the GADM web page), a process that is detailed step by step in chapter IV. Considering the characteristics of the telluric movements occurring within the country, the application of Zhao's attenuation law is considered; this law could vary according to the user's demands. Finally, once the model has been executed, it will be possible to visualize by means of a color scale the different intensities resulting from the information loaded to the program, emphasizing the importance of obtaining the uniform hazard spectrum for which a comparative analysis is made with the spectrum generated from the recommendations of the Ecuadorian standard NEC-SE-DS.