Abstract

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the way in which routine activities are carried out changed, taking a leading role telecommunications networks, it is important to evaluate their operation, service interruption and progressive deterioration, especially those generated by natural disasters, we have focused on earthquakes. Venezuela is a seismic country, being vulnerable to economic and human losses caused by this disaster. Many of the infrastructures that are used by both public and private institutions may not follow the current laws on earthquake-resistant structures. We seek to evaluate the damage by correlated geographic faults produced by earthquakes in a telecommunications network using probabilistic seismic risk analysis. © The Author(s) 2023.