Los edificios escolares: elementos de la estructura urbana considerados claves en la red de emergencia sísmica

San Juan province, Argentine Republic, it is located in the wne of majar seismic activity of this country. This area was shacked with five mayor earthquakes in the past lOO years. The most recent event was in 1977. Structures that had been built according to the existing seismic code provisions, performed well, but many scholar buildings had severa! damages including the collapse of sorne of them. A hundred of people died and 250 were injured.

This  project  shows  the  results  of  an investigation from San Juan National University, about the application of a seismic evaluation method on public primary school buildings in San Juan city, which contains the 60% of the province scholar population.