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This research article investigates the correlation between a suite of global structural parameters and the observed earthquake responses in 43 reinforced concrete shear wall buildings, of which 36 underwent structural damage during the M_w 8.8, 2010, Maule earthquake. During the earthquake, some of these buildings suffered brittle damage in few reinforced concrete walls. Damage concentrated in the first two building stories and first basement, and most typically, in the vicinity of important vertical irregularities present in the resisting planes. This research consolidates in a single database information about these 36 damaged buildings for which global geometric and building design parameters are computed. Geometry related characteristics, material properties, dynamic and wall-related parameters, and irregularity indices are all defined and computed for the inventory of damaged buildings, and their values …