The Dominican Republic’s Seismic Table (Mesa Sísmica de la República Dominicana) calls for measures to be taken by the National District government (ADN), and the Ministry of Environment, given the high risk and dangerousness of the area occupied by human settlements on the periphery of the National Zoo. The seismic team is the advisory arm on seismic disasters of the National Emergency Commission (CNE).
The Seismic Table warned that the growth of human settlements in the area is aggravated by the existing conditions of a subsoil constituted mainly by clay and soft soils, with high risk of landslides in case of a natural disaster. The Seismic Table urges that citizens be warned and corresponding actions be taken to prevent a tragedy in the case of a geological or meteorological phenomenon.
Participants in the Seismic Table are:
Omar Guevara, president pro tempore of the Seismic Table and General Director of the National Office of Seismic Evaluation and Vulnerability of Infrastructures and Buildings (ONESVIE); Eng. Santiago Muñoz, General Director of the National Geological Service (SGN); Ramón Delanoy, General Director of the Seismological Institute of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD); Augusto Rodríguez, president of the Dominican Society of Geology (SODOGEO); Eng. Leonardo Reyes Madera, of the Dominican Society of Seismology and Seismic Engineering (SODOSISMICA); Erick Dorrejo, representative of the Ministry of Economy (MEPyD); Karina de Pool for the Ministry of Public Works (MOPC); Javier Rodríguez of the Seismological Observatory of the Polytechnic Institute Loyola; Carlos Martínez of Ministry of Education (MINERD); Osiris De León, scientific advisor to the Executive Power; and Romeo A. Llinas, advisor to the Executive Branch.
Institutions that make up the Seismic Table are:
The Dominican Society of Seismology and Seismic Engineering (SODOSISMICA); the SGN; the Scientific Advisor of the Executive Power on Geosciences and Seismicity; the UASD National Center of Seismology; the Seismological Observatory of the Loyola Polytechnic; MEPyD; the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Mother and Teacher Pontifical Catholic University (PCMM); the Dominican Society of Geology (SODOGEO); MINRED’s General Directorate of Environmental Risk Management; MOPC’s General Directorate of Regulations and Systems; the Executive Branch Advisor on Mining and Petroleum Resources; the Coordination of Masters in Structural and Seismic Resistant Engineering of the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (INTEC).
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20 November 2019