The inexhaustible series of historical days A new date to remember has added on Wednesday, July 30. At the edge of 8:25 (early in the peninsular Spain) the southern coast of the Península Oriental Rus de Kamchatka ha .
The tremor, finally registered as 8’8 degrees on the Richter scaleit has become the Stronger sixth ever registered. The third of this century. And, statistics apart, he has had the planet in tension, Alerts and notices of surveillance systems, keys to prevent the event from translated into a disaster of equally historical dimensions.
He epicenter It has been 125 kilometers southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskya city of about 165,000 inhabitants, located only 18 kilometers deep, a location that could have involved Tragic effects
Associated with the huge energy movement in the subsoil is the ERrup entry of the Kliuchevskoy volcano in the same Kamchatka Peninsula and one of the highest in the world.
The news with which a good part of the world’s population has awakened has been losing serious As the alluvion of tsunamis alerts and other dangerous phenomena have been deactivated. Nevertheless, The risk continueswith numerous countries and territories still under notice on its coasts.
That the balance of affected is reduced only to one Low wounded figure “Without determining,” now numerous material damage In several countries, but Without fatal or missing victims has helped the Tsunamis alert system launched by the UNESCO.
This tool achieved “in just ten minutes” to notice the coastal populations that could be affected, essentially in Russia and Japan. “Thanks to these systems deployed by the Unesco for 20 yearsas well as to the sensitization efforts of coastal populations and oceanic scientific research, millions of people could be prevented from danger, “the statement wanted to collect in a statement the UN Agency for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO).
The system, which has already been in force for two decades, was launched after the Mortal tsunami in the Indian in 2004which cost more than 220,000 people.
Sent the first immediate alert, the UN system got a few minutes later, “supply detailed forecasts On the height of the expected floods “, carrying the alert to other Pacific countries. These notices allowed, in turn, the national authorities of the US, China, New Zealand, Indonesia, Mexico or Peru send an urgent message to their respective populations and the taking of preventive measures. Also in Hawaii or the French Polynesia, where the night entered Wednesday night in Spain territories
In all of them, as in Russia and Japan, they were expected Waves of several meters repeatedly for the effect of the planned tsunamis. If the omens had fulfilled, the destructive power of said wave would have been huge. However, they have arrived smaller, with waves of just over one meter and very counted episodes of three or four meters maximum.
Japan, due to its relative closeness to the southern end of the Russian Peninsula, has been another of the great global protagonists of the day. Its authorities acted rapidly to carry out mass evacuations for about 2 million peopleto whom he urged to leave his homes and take refuge in the public spaces enabled for that purpose.
Also, if evacuated Fukushima’s nuclear plantwith him tragic memory of the earthquake and posterior tsunami of 2011in a chain reaction that led to the Meteorological Agency of Japan (JMA) to launch its tsunami risk alert throughout the country’s coast. Travel cancellations, the chaos in metropolis like TokyoIt was immediate, but both the alert and the chaos have been reduced with the passage of the hours, until maintaining a simple warning and the relative normalization of the services.
Fear has also touched South America, with alerts on the coast of Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica o Colombia to the earthquake and the subsequent fear of tsunamis or, at least, large waves. Therefore, these alerts have been accompanied by evacuations orders to thousands of citizens together with the closure of parks and natural spaces and recommendations to avoid environments close to the coasts.
