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The Geophysical Institute of Peru IGP a body attached to the Ministry of the Environment announced that it has been coordinating the installation of four stations of the Peruvian Seismic Alert System SASPe in the coastal strip of the Moquegua region which they will be fully implemented by the end of 2021. This news was communicated by the executive president of the institution Hernando Tavera during the virtual seminar Earthquakes tsunamis huaicos and volcanic danger monitoring and warning systems for prevention organized by the IGP and the Regional Government of Moquegua and held on May 20 and 21.The points selected to install the stations in the Moquegua region are located in Punta Coles Muelle Engie Muelle PCC and Chagllianto while the control node will operate at the COER Moquegua headquarters he explained. As an example Tavera mentioned that if the SASPe had been operational in 2001 during the M8.0 earthquake that struck Arequipa Moquegua and Tacna the city of Moquegua would have been alerted with approx. 45 seconds in advance and the city of Ilo with 40 seconds.Danger from volcanic eruptions and soil studiesDuring the seminar the IGP also explained that the three active volcanoes in Moquegua Ubinas Ticsani and Huaynaputina already have real-time surveillance networks and that the National Volcano Center an IGP service based in Arequipa is at capacity. to alert any reactivation or eventual eruption.On the other hand the IGP invited the provincial and district municipalities of the region to contact each other to carry out soil studies with which the local governments will obtain geophysical-geotechnical zoning maps to responsibly plan land use planning and urban expansion in their areas. jurisdictions.
