Abstract

The recent earthquake with Mw of 8.3 attacked the northern Chile on the April 1, 2014 resulted in considerable damages to quay structures of the port of Iquique. In contrast, the recently renovat-ed/reinforced quays of the port stayed at minor damage. This document summarizes the information available for the impact over the port of Iquique, due to the recent seismic sequence in northern Chile, with the aim of assess causal relation between the quay structure damages, quay renovation/reinforcement methods and city system behavior and its influence on the port operation, all in the context of risk analysis for BCP studies.