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02-02-2012, 03:10 PM
Leonardo Reyes Madera, the engineer who heads the Society of Seismology and Seismic Engineering, told Hoy newspaper that the nation's schools all need to be structurally reinforced. He said: "So many years saying the same thing and the authorities still have not wanted to look at the schools, hospitals and other public buildings."
The Society expressed concern yesterday because despite the country's high level of earthquake risk, the government has not accepted the suggestions to strengthen the schools and other public buildings.
The members of the society say that the authorities have not learned from the disastrous earthquake in Haiti just two years ago.
Reyes Madera recalled that in 2003 the National Office of Seismic and Vulnerability (Onesvie) looked at the schools that should be reinforced and so far, not one has been worked on. Reyes Madera, Rafael Corominas, Hector O'Reilly and Romeo Llinas all attended the Weekly Luncheon at the Corripio Communications Group to talk about this issue. They mentioned the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in 2003 that caused two schools in Puerto Plata to collapse. The schools were rebuilt, but on the same structural lines, which suggests that nothing was learned. Rafael Corominas, perhaps the leading seismological engineer in the field and founder of Onesvie, said that the 2003 study was just set aside and after the change in administrations in 2004 the office that he founded became politicized and the government has turned its back on the recommendations.
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The Society expressed concern yesterday because despite the country's high level of earthquake risk, the government has not accepted the suggestions to strengthen the schools and other public buildings.
The members of the society say that the authorities have not learned from the disastrous earthquake in Haiti just two years ago.
Reyes Madera recalled that in 2003 the National Office of Seismic and Vulnerability (Onesvie) looked at the schools that should be reinforced and so far, not one has been worked on. Reyes Madera, Rafael Corominas, Hector O'Reilly and Romeo Llinas all attended the Weekly Luncheon at the Corripio Communications Group to talk about this issue. They mentioned the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in 2003 that caused two schools in Puerto Plata to collapse. The schools were rebuilt, but on the same structural lines, which suggests that nothing was learned. Rafael Corominas, perhaps the leading seismological engineer in the field and founder of Onesvie, said that the 2003 study was just set aside and after the change in administrations in 2004 the office that he founded became politicized and the government has turned its back on the recommendations.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)