Copiapo, Chile (Reuters)-The northern city of Copapo was preparing last week to hold earthquake exercises, and it had a realistic one: 6.4 dirty earthquake reduced power to thousands and caused structural damage to the buildings.
The exercises – which were temporarily suspended – last week at The Andan Nation, which is on the roll of fire in the active pioneering ocean in terms of seismic, confirms the interest in anxiety that a large earthquake can hit shortly after the last fifteen years.
“The possibility of an earthquake reached 7.8 volumes or the largest about 64 % this year, and these possibilities rise over time,” said Sergio Barintos, director of the National Names Seismology Center in Chile.
Chile, a long shrapnel from a country along the Pacific Ocean, is close to three tectonic panels, a location of the strongest recorded earthquake – 9.5 in 1960. The pavement loop has a regular volcanic activity and earthquakes, with Chilean’s use of smaller absence.
“A piece of the roof fell. In another room, the doors tires exploded, the windows erupted,” Alessandro Gerardelli, a citizen of Kopabu, told Reuters about an earthquake last week – a moderate according to Chile’s standards.
“The walls in three of our four rooms are cracked.”
The planned exercises include students, workers, disaster agencies and the armed forces. It was organized by the disaster in Chile to prepare societies for large -scale natural disasters throughout the country, including earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruptions and forest fires.
“This is the test of suspended Copabo training in September.
The frequency of strong earthquakes led the country to develop strong and globally popular building standards that helped reduce death fees during the main earthquakes. Most of the deaths were 525 of the 8.8 earthquake in 2010 due to a tsunami.
Carlos Ziona, director of hydrographic service and oceanic scientists at Chile Naval, said after the earthquake is to assess the levels of threats to the country and give SENAPRED an assessment of a tsunami alert within five minutes.
Barrientos from the Earthquake Center said every earthquake was an opportunity to improve the response of emergency situations in the country.
“With every earthquake we learn and prepare in the best possible way,” he said. “But nature can always surprise us with something, so I don’t think we are completely prepared.”
(Participated in the reports of Rodrigo Guterres; written by Alexander Feligas; edited by Sandra Maller and Adam Jordan)
