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The Geophysical Institute of Peru IGP through the generation of scientific information joins efforts to become a society with seismic education and a strong culture of prevention. In this sense he held a virtual conference via Facebook Live where he explained the importance of the implementation of the Earthquake Early Warning System that the IGP has been carrying out in coordination with the National Institute of Civil Defense -INDECI.The conference was dictated by Dr. Edmundo Norabuena scientific researcher at the IGP who argued that the seismic reality in Peru is related to its location on the western coast of South America at a distance of approximately 180 kilometers from the area where the Nazca and South American plates converge at an average speed of 70 millimeters per year. The dynamics of these plates generate earthquakes of great magnitude recurring in time and space due to a process that for decades accumulates energy slowly to release it suddenly in a few seconds. This sudden release of energy is the beginning of an earthquake like those that affected our country in recent years.Among the earthquakes of magnitude 8 Mw that struck Lima is that of the years 1940 1974 and 1746 the latter destroyed the capital and almost all of Callao. To them too are added the earthquakes of Arequipa in 2001 Pisco in 2007 among others.The scientific researcher of the IGP mentioned that in order to face the natural hazards that threaten and create risks for citizens in Peru in 2011 he published the Law of the National System of Disaster Risk Law 29664 where he points out that the Disaster Risk Management has as a basis for scientific studies and information recording to know the risks manage and thus mitigate the impact of these dangers in order to ensure the well-being of citizens their heritage and the State.In this context Dr. Edmundo Norabuena highlighted the role that the IGP plays in these 98 years of scientific-technical work. Mainly now that the Early Warning System for Earthquakes in Peru SAT-Earthquakes is being implemented a project that in the period 2020-2021 will be operating in the entire central coastal region of the country.To achieve this and as a way forward the equipment corresponding to the SMAPS component has already been acquired and the construction of the accelerometric stations that will be strategically installed on the coastline is beginning as they will be the closest points to the arrival of the First seismic waves in order to detect critical earthquakes as quickly as possible.This system is an investment project that embodies the creation of an information generation monitoring alert dissemination and communication service for the Earthquake Early Warning System in the departments of the Peruvian Coast.It does not predict the occurrence of an earthquake but rather it will allow for an opportunity time for residents to react before the arrival of seismic waves and thus reduce their impact and possible human and material losses he said. .The IGP scientific researcher explained that the equipment for this surveillance and monitoring system will consist of the installation of 103 accelerometric stations at a distance of 30 km from each other distributed in the departments of Tumbes 4 Piura 10 Lambayeque 5 La Libertad 11 Ancash 13 Lima 14 Ica 15 Arequipa 22 Moquegua 4 and Tacna 5.Despite this virtual talk also it had the participation of Ing. Miguel Yamasaki representative of INDECI who highlighted the articulated work that has been done with IGP to achieve the implementation of the SASPe. The main function of INDECI is the dissemination and preparation of the population for possible seismic events.During his presentation he highlighted the 4 components of this alert system knowledge of risks monitoring and alert activities that correspond to the IGP and dissemination and knowledge response capacity functions that are in charge of INDECI. Ing. Miguel Yamasaki affirmed that it is the duty of INDECI to strengthen the response capacity of the authorities and the population before the issuance of an alert and alarm against a seismic hazard.He said that for the implementation of this system it corresponds to INDECI to install 114 sirens per district however this would not be enough to alert the entire population. What is sought is that each central government develop initiatives that contribute to disaster risk management for example the technical specifications of these sirens will be made available and these could be replicated thus integrating all of them into the large network seismic.Finally Dr. Edmundo Norabuena said that the Early Warning System for Earthquakes SAT-Earthquakes is a service of public value for the Peruvian State that will strengthen the seismic culture and if it is added to it the opportune decisions of the authorities and the participation of an informed population will be a great advance to strengthen our culture of prevention.
