martes, 5 de abril de 2016

The Failure of San Ramón

Hi Bloggers! I hope you are well. Today, I would like to speak something about my career, Geography. But not anything about Geography, I would like to talk about the problem that the city of Santiago is having in this moments. What´s happening? the big failure of San Ramón. What is this? basically, this failure it´s a reverse failure (the movements are vertical) that is in the east of Santiago, in the beggining of the "Cordillera de Los Andes". It is a problem because researchers say that the failure can make a big earthquake in this zone. In ohters words, the failure is active. Maybe the eartquakes of this zone will not be great like the others that we know of the past (27F, 16S), but the people think that this won´t be a problem to keep building here, in the east of Santiago. That´s the real problem. Researchers say that the magnitude of the earthquakes of this zone are in the 7 and 8 grades Richter. Not so differents like the others of the coast (27F, 16S). Also, the researchers say that the buildings of Santiago are prepared to support the coasts eartcuakes, but not those who are in they feets. This brings serious problems. The force of destruction of the earthquakes is liberated under our city, causing lots of damages on the population´s buildings of this zone. With this, Geographers say that keep building on ths zone, is an irresponsability of the urbanization plan´s of the city. It´s important to have concscience about this problem, becuase the builder´s companys are still working and building on this zone.

5 comentarios:

  1. Is this in Las Condes near San Carlos de Apoquindo?

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    1. Yes Mr. Simon, from this sector to Puente Alto. A better reference it´s from the Mapocho, to the Maipo river.

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  2. Nice post ricky, is great have information that invite us to think about nawadays.

    by the way, which is the frecuency of the eartquakes in the failure of san ramon?

    thanks in advance

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    1. Thank you Angel!
      the last two eartquakes were 17.000 and 8.000 years ago,
      so the researchers think that for the cycle, the next can be soon.

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