The head of the Office of Civil Defense and Disaster Risk Management of the Municipality of Ciudad Nueva Adán Bahamondes Valdivia explained that if the 8.2 Richter earthquake had been real, all the houses and buildings would have collapsed by 70%.
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“We have 70 serious injuries, there are about 550 minor injuries, we have 35 deaths, there are around 300 affected homes and we have collapsed around 430 homes, there are educational institutions three of which have collapsed, the police station has collapsed, the center has also collapsed. of health and other health posts”, he specified after the multi-hazard earthquake drill.
“We need to be prepared”
For his part, the mayor of Ciudad Nueva Helmer Fernández indicated that there was an active participation of the population and authorities that make up the district platform.
“We have to prepare responsibly for an earthquake that may come, this month we have had three shakes that are proof that a large earthquake may occur later and we must be prepared,” Fernández stressed.
District with vulnerable areas
To mitigate the vulnerability of the district, he responded that rapid action brigades have been formed with the associations in the Karamolle ravine and dikes have also been built and some walls have been worked on to reduce the force of the mudslides.
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The Ciudad Nueva district is highly vulnerable because it is located on the slopes of Intiorko hill, with extremely unstable soil and in the bed of the Karamolle ravine, which is activated when there is intense rainfall during the summer months, such as in 2019 and 2020. .
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