The seismicity of the southwestern Iberian Peninsula is moderate but large events with long return periods occur (≈ 200
years). This exceeds the life of various generations, making the population unacquainted with the seismic hazard. On the one
hand, this results in a low demanding seismic code which increases the seismic vulnerability and, therefore, the seismic risk.
On the other hand, the local emergency services must be properly prepared to face a destructive seismic event, with emergency plans and mitigation strategies. This assumption enhances the need of assessing the seismic risk of Seville in a civil
protection context. For all the aforementioned and for the lack of instrumental data of relevant earthquakes, the assessment
of the seismic hazard in this area is challenging. To do this, seismogenic zones of the new seismic hazard map of Spain have
been used as sources. The peak ground acceleration (PGA) for each scenario has been calculated by means of ground motion
prediction equations (GMPE). To estimate the site efects, in a 1D model environment, a shear wave velocity (Vs) map of
the top 5 m has been depicted based on the standard penetration test (SPT). Seville’s building stock has been classifed in
agreement with the previous works in Lorca and Barcelona to determine its vulnerability. The main goal of this work was to
investigate the infuence of the soil amplifcation on the seismic behaviour of diferent building typologies. Therefore, the
fnal target was to plot the damage scenarios expected in Seville under a maximum credible earthquake by means of a deterministic seismic hazard assessment (DSHA). As outputs, the scenario modelled showed that around 27 000 buildings would experience a moderate damage and that 26 000 would sufer pre-collapse or even collapse. Thus, approximately 10% of the population would lose their dwellings. Regarding the human loses, around 22 000 people would sufer serious injuries and
approximately 5 000 people would die. Owing to these conclusions, this research evidences the crucial need by civil protection services to implement a local emergency plan as a tool to mitigate the probable consequences that arise from this threat
