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A group of Murcian students visit Lorca to know the effects of the earthquakes of 2011 (24/10/2018)

This is an initiative that confirms the role of the city as a research focus on the behavior of faults, seismology and citizen response to natural disasters.

The councilor of Urbanism in the City of Lorca, Maria Saturnina Martinez, has received this morning a group of 18 students from El Limonar School, Murcia, who have visited with their teachers the city to know the effects of earthquakes May 2011 and the development that has been followed within the reconstruction process to enable the rebuilding of blocks of houses, single-family houses, industries, establishments, care infrastructures and citizen services, as well as the recovery of historical and monumental heritage.

The City Planning Edil has indicated that this group of students showed special interest in knowing details about this issue as part of their training, specifically within the subject of Geography.

We are talking about an initiative that adds to those that have been taking place since our city suffered the effects of earthquakes.

The reality is that Lorca has become for this circumstance a marked focus of study on telluric movements, fault behavior and seismology in general.

It is not only about knowing the damage of the earthquakes, but to deepen the analysis of the displacement of these elements, focusing in our particular case on the idiosyncrasy of the Alhama fault, which crosses a large part of the Region of Murcia, and that , in addition to the catastrophic earthquake of 2011, it presents a regular activity that results in earthquakes of varying intensity and unpredictable periodicity.

Satur Martínez has recalled that since May 2011, and derived from the process of globalization embodied in the dispersion of knowledge and the news that are generated, Lorca has become an international scene of research on these phenomena.

The profile of the municipality as an enclave of research in the field has been enhanced by the strong seismic movements that shook the city on May 11, 2011, whose power and particular characteristics aroused interest in the study of peculiarities geological Lorca.

Lorca has become a place of study for multiple university disciplines.

Architects, technical architects, engineers, geologists, geographers, psychologists, experts in art and tourism, among others, have analyzed in situ what happened in Lorca in order to improve prevention, action at the time and reaction to the emergency caused by a situation like that.

Lorca has hosted in recent years research forums on the subject such as the Iberian meeting on active faults and paleosismology (Iberfault), as well as educational and informative editions of Geolodía.

One of the most outstanding examples in this regard was the production of a documentary by the prestigious television channel National Geographic (NGC), which precisely chose the case of the Lorca earthquake to start the series of reports that were broadcast around the world under the title "The birth of Europe".

The chapter dedicated to Lorca was called "Collision", and included explanations from scientists, affected by earthquakes and municipal authorities.

A few weeks ago, as a more recent example, the Guerra Theater hosted the celebration of the "Hispania Nostra" congress.

The Town Planning Councilor explained that the students of the El Limonar school have received an informative talk with contents on this subject such as the ESLORCA Seismic Training and Awareness Plan, the conclusions of the Lorca Resilient Congress "Lessons learned from earthquakes", as well as the derived from the CUIDAR Project, the latter in charge of young project participants.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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