translated from Spanish: Capital Government detects 26 seismic risk zones in CDMX

Mexico City.- Following the frequent earthquakes that have been registered in Mexico City and the historic events of September 19, 1985 and 2017, the capital government has defined 26 alert zones based on the damage left by the accidents. In this sense, the authorities of the CDMX created the risk atlas based on the areas of greatest affectation after the earthquakes of 1985 and 2017, with the intention of locating and identifying the areas that present damage corresponding to each mayor’s office, some of them dating from the earthquake of 85.” Area of greater affectation of the earthquake of 1985 delimited in four quadrants that corresponded to the downtown area of the City (central delegations), because in them a greater number of damaged infrastructure was concentrated, “says the local government about the locations. Among the areas indicated by the authority, are the Colonia Del Valle, Alcaldía Benito Juárez, and the Cuauhtémoc neighborhood, as well as in Moctezuma Second Section, of Venustiano Carranza, and in the Colonia Magdalena Atlazolpa, in Iztapalapa.Regarding the areas that present damages by the earthquake of 2017, 22 were detected in the four quadrants in the four blocks with the limits of the mayor’s offices, being quadrant one in the Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo and Azcapotzalco and the two of Venustiano Carranza and Gustavo A. Madero.While the third quadrant corresponds to Iztacalco, Iztapalapa and Tláhuac and the fourth to Benito Juárez, Coyoacán, Xochimilco and Tlalpan.According to the authority, this report was made based on the criteria of the composition of the subsoil, as well as the buildings affected by the telluric movements. They explained that the quadrants represent an alert area that includes constructions such as the Senate of the Republic in the Tabacalera colony, the San Felipe de Jesús Colony, San Juan de Aragón Fourth Section; San Andrés de las Salinas; the International Airport of Mexico City, among other venues in Magdalena Mixihuca.Read more: ERURM personnel carried out rescue in simulated disaster scenario in CDMXOther areas identified by the Government of Mexico City, are, Lomas de San Lorenzo, Viveros de Tláhuac and the surroundings of the Paradero de Tláhuac; the area of La Viga; Coapa; Quetzalcoatl Urban Development and Reform Laws Third Section.In addition to colonia Infonavit; Constitution of 1917 and the chinampas area of Xochimilco, adjacent to Tláhuac. Heavy rains in Morelos leave floods and families trapped by overflow of the Yautepec River

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