摘要：Nowadays, Smart Cities are attracting much interestof researchers and also in the industry. One of the mainreasons is the fact that this paradigm offers vast possibilitiesfor been applied in many sectors like transportation, publicservice, healthcare, and others. Currently, almost all attention inthe academic and business are put into the development of newapplications or resources for taking advantage of this paradigm.However, what happens when an unexpected event makesthat the smart cities applications work in the wrong way?.This paper states an approach for analyzing the smart citiesconsidering an unforeseen event occurs like an earthquake. Forachieving this goal, concrete and consistent exploration of theconcepts and techniques involves in smart cities is conducted.As a result of that, several rules that must be followed toovercome these situations are analyzed, allowing to establisha characterization of the services that need to be prioritizedinside a Smart Cities. Furthermore, we present some insightson possible solutions for the first prioritized services as e-Healthor immediate communication necessity in affected zones tominimize the loss of living beings and maximize the rescuelabors.
