This Wednesday morning, many people from the vicinity of atlantis they woke up and were surprised by a earthquake occurred several kilometers from the coast of the spa.
Instead Gustavo Gonzalez, mayor of Atlántida, was already awake when everything happened. According to him he related to The ObserverGonzalez rose shortly before the earthquakeand while talking with his partner felt “long, prolonged thunder”and the first thing he thought of it was in the rainnecessary in the midst of drought that affects the country.
“I was very happy because I thought it was thunder, and the Swan Lagoon was going to fill up, but nothing could be further away than thunder”the mayor lamented hours later.
Until before 9 in the morning several neighbors reported to the chief that they had heard noises similar to thundereven in rural areas around 10 kilometers from the coast.
The Municipality of Canelones informed The Observer that upon learning of the earthquake generated two lines of work: on the one hand began a “coordination” with the National Emergency System and other organizations that “have precise information” on the situation, and on the other hand began a “reveal” in the nearby areas to the earthquake to “identify possible impacts”.
Both the Administration and González They do not have any reports of impacts or structural damage. Neither the National Emergency System (Sinae) and the Canelones Police Headquarters.
In addition, the mayor of Atlántida said that “for now” the sea “is calm”. Gonzalez hopes that the earthquake “do not scare the brótola” since in the last days there had been “a good catch”.
