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Tsunami Earthquake!! Valparaiso

Since I was born my life has been connected to these seismic events. In fact, I literally received one. On March 28, 1965, Sunday, took place the great earthquake of that year. I had only two days old and my family was visiting in the maternity hospital Enrique Deformes (which now houses the National Congress building) when he fell relentlessly in this earthquake. My brother was just 14 years that he managed to get me and ran me into the arms between pieces of debris that rained down everywhere. Of course realize that my brother is my personal hero.

Along with this welcome and shake the past and most recently last five, 1971, 1973 (quasi-earthquake shaking), 1985 in Mendoza, Argentina. The same year in March, one famous for three minutes I missed because I was not in the country. Now that I think, five earthquakes is a fairly large number. However, if you ask most locals for over 35 years, everyone will tell you they have a similar number of earthquakes in the skin. Being

Chilean and have experienced some of these experiences seismic is a condition sine qua non , especially if you're in Buenos Aires, because we have suffered great and famous earthquakes. The strange thing is that there is not adequate information and good education about it, the locals are very ignorant and do not yet understand how to move our amphitheater of hills and plan.

seismic With my own history is obvious that I felt particularly drawn to the subject. A bit of fun and mostly because a lot of information needed to understand these events and to overcome the fear that I produced a child. Do not remember my birth in a conscious, but it sure made my nerves recorded the semi traumatically temblorcito making the child put me pale.

No way around it. We had the bad fortune to live in a coastal country that has itself just off the junction of two intercontinental plates: Nazca and continental. Nazca continental push towards getting at the point of earthquakes beneath it. Push and goes and makes the other twist in a clash of giants, in a struggle every day of every hour of every minute and the pressure is gathering and collecting, until one day a chunk gives way and we are left with heart in hand, trembling and uncertain security sitting in the living room of our house lit by lantern cracks in the walls of both the home and in our own resilience and security. That if we have the luck of getting the house together. Any technical or scientific explanation falls to the simplicity of your grandfather when I explained the seismic event: the earth settles, mijito, so moving.

Ok. Tatita. Then as it accommodates and thus moves (there's the problem, just moving) try to understand how it does in Valparaiso to add information to spend our data and experience and to begin to understand. I think passing the information can help everyone understand better where you live, and be clear that sooner or later it will move the soil, but will move differently depending on where you live in the city.

is not the same living on the hill that live in the plan, and on shaking this is law. The hills are mostly hard rock, their movement is mostly dry and hard vertical rather than horizontal movement. Great part of the city's architectural heritage is just in the hills. Saint Paul Anglican Church dates from 1858, which means it has resisted even the famous earthquake of 1906, mentioned by the Chronicle as a "two in one", only the second case it lasted two minutes. Obviously, the slopes should be considered, in some cases slip. However, for a city that is hanging this does not happen as often as you might expect. Just look at the amount of slender stilt houses that defy vertigo and the seismic history of the city, to realize that many have resisted incredibly, at least its good pair of earthquakes. It does not mean you have to rely only means that earthquakes on the hills are much more confident that the lower part of the city.

plan or center is the problem. Although only 10% of city dwellers living in the bottom, we have all the commercial activity concentrated at that point, and an important heritage assets. Of course, the name that people know his heart "The Plan" is closely related to our culture seismic. Many believe that the center is named that way because it is the flat, but the truth is to be the "Plan for Reconstruction of Valparaiso, ordered by President Pedro Montt after the earthquake of 1906. Valparaiso considering an important place and the destruction of the most expensive neighborhood in the city, known as the neighborhood of Almendral, ordered the local plan and adopted it as the name for the flat part also of the city.

sandy soil, fill, largely reclaimed from the sea is not the best place for buildings to withstand an earthquake. Technically, the phenomenon that occurs in the soil is known as liquefaction. This means that in an earthquake all this filling sand stirred become as inconsistent as water. Take a pan, fill it with sand and shake. See how sand jumping and moves without any consistency. Once the tremor, the ground is getting a new consistency rearranged. This means that while shaking in the plan, under our buildings and streets have something vibrating acuosamente that causes suffering to our buildings. The movement is seen mostly in the city center is a horizontal wave.

liquefaction Sample (Material: Arena)

I remember very well the interesting National Geographic documentary on earthquakes in the Chilean coast. I remember at the time caused quite a stir in the simulation a major earthquake in the city. The mayor at the time even accused to sue the important and famous chain, without taking into account the important information that was delivered there. Had served to the subject of debate and social education, for which there was expressed very well help you understand what the real constant danger of earthquakes in the area.

It is time to re-take a look at education. Not in terms of drills, but total plan. If we live in an earthquake, we should be most experts in the field. All of us. Receive quality information from our early childhood. Theoretical, technical and practical. In a simple way provided by the fact that they are suffering but constant earthquakes tremors. It is a subject almost daily and would greatly help us manage to overcome the terror and panic and prevent major disasters caused by the mythology that exists in this regard.

Regarding earthquakes always be prepared and ready should be our slogan. Since we live here and we love living here must understand our own soil, from time to time, and fits ... ... moves



(will appreciate the technical and theoretical in the comments of some readers understood on the subject)

Leo Silva