Dataset on structural damage and school repair costs caused by the earthquakes of September 7th and 19th, 2017 in Mexico

Until 2017, the availability of public data on the damage caused by earthquakes in Mexico was practically nonexistent. However, the record of the impacts generated by the September 7 and 19, 2017 earthquakes has become an invaluable source of information to investigate seismic behavior, impact and risk. This data was compiled from the Mexican government page dedicated exclusively to these events, which covers various sectors such as health, historical monuments, housing and education. These data were processed by data mining techniques resulting in the following results a data repository that includes a data dictionary, a transactional set and a discretized set, all focused on information related to the education sector. These sets have served as the basis for analyzing and understanding the repair costs derived from the aforementioned earthquakes in Mexico.