Unscrupulous people tried to steal seismic equipment from a station on the Yucamani volcano, in the Tacna region, which has now caused the Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP) to decide to take them away, before the criminals carry out their mission.
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The volcanology research analyst Katherine Vargas indicated that in 2021 a monitoring station of the Tutupaca volcano was stolen, which were sophisticated and cost 1,000 soles.
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Originally each massif had three monitoring stations. Due to the theft, the IGP decided to take a station from the Yucamani, which will now only have two.
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They also collected a Tutupaca station, which will now have only one monitoring team. He lamented this situation because it means that there will be fewer teams to cover the activity of the volcanoes whose information serves to alert the population of Candarave and Tacna.
