A recent study claims that Uruguay could suffer a new earthquake of at least a magnitude of 6.3 (strong) on the Richter scale during the next 20 yearsand warned them that the country is not structurally prepared to withstand earthquakes.
As reported by Telemundo, scientists Leda Sanchez and Peter Baxterof New Zealand, were in charge of the probability study that warns about a possible future earthquake in populated centers during the next two decades. The analysis was based on the magnitude and frequency of the above events.
the geologist Judith Loureiro He pointed out to that medium that the probabilistic study carried out by Sánchez and Baxter could anticipate a future earthquake in the La Plata basin.
“The structures are not prepared, I think there is only one building that has the capacity to support some kind of horizontal movement”slipped the geologist, revealing the few defenses that Uruguay would have when facing large earthquakes.
For some researchers, the earthquake that occurred in 1543and that was described by the ex-governor of the Rio de la Plata and Paraguaythe Spanish Alvar Nunez Cabeza de VacaIt was of a great magnitude.
For Loureiro, this “happened in the middle of the field, where there were barely two cows, it didn’t break anything”, however, could be felt about 200 kilometers aroundand had there been a nearby structure, “it would have caused damage,” said the geologist.
The Atlantis earthquake was the largest recorded in history.
The recent earthquake in Atlantis (Cannelloni)which according to his report reached 5.2 degrees on the Richter seismological scale, it was the largest in national history, since records have been kept, and Sánchez maintained that to have been in Montevideo, the result would have been “catastrophic”.
The phenomenon exceeded that which occurred in the 2021 In the town of montecoral in the department of Floridathat out of 4.6 degrees. For Sánchez, it is not that there has been an increase in earthquakes in recent years, but that more events are being recorded because there are more teams than before.
Source: Ambito
