Parameter-based assessment of the sesmic vulnerability of adobe constructions in the State of Morelos, Mexico

This package contains a Geographic Information System environment that was used for storing and managing the data of this study, given the advantages of having a geographic reference for identifying each construction during the on-site campaign. The open-code and free software QGIS (version 3.12 București) (QGIS Development Team 2021) was selected for this purpose. A convenient capability of using QGIS for assembling the database was the use of the plug-in Mergin (Dobias, Sab Varga, and Petrik 2021), a cloud-based storage service that allows access to and editing of the QGIS file from multiple mobile devices, such as smartphones equipped with the app Input. The survey was programmed as an attribute table for the layers that would later store the polygons corresponding to the constructions, containing a total of 68 fields for storing field data and assessment results (see Table 4), including qualitative, quantitative, and Boolean data. In addition to having this geographic database as a Geopackage file, a Python-based front end was programmed for performing reading and editing actions on the database. This front-end component integrates the possibility of calculating the vulnerability index and the levels of damage based on the parameters stored in the GIS database. The purpose of this script is to facilitate data management and calculations while maintaining the integrity of the primary database.