A holistic evaluation of the seismic risk is conducted for the city of Port of Spain, Trinidad and
Tobago. The presented methodology evaluates the seismic risk from a holistic perspective, that is, it
takes into account the expected physical damage and also the conditions related to social fragility and
lack of resilience, which favour the second order effects when a hazard event strikes an urban centre.
Indicators are used in order to capture favourable conditions for direct physical impacts, as well as
indirect and, at times, intangible impacts of hazard events. This evaluation is performed on the base of
a probabilistic risk evaluation of the city using the CAPRA platform. The holistic methodology has
been implemented as a post-processing tool of the platform.