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The municipal training points out that "despite the fact that the Environmental Impact Assessment Study of the PGOU indicates that the municipality of Murcia has an important seismic hazard," the City Council has not prepared any prevention plan in all these years "

Angeles Micol affirms that "only the attitude and the priorities that the municipal PP has had and that it continues to have, authorizing thousands of buildings without having this Plan approved, can be classified as seriously irresponsible"

"The City Council has not taken any measure in all these years to inform the population about the seismic situation and, above all, about what to do in case of an earthquake"

NOW MURCIA denounces the non-existence in the municipality of the Special Plan for the Prevention of Earthquakes, which should exist, according to the regulations, for 17 years.

Councilwoman Angeles Micol affirms that "it is inadmissible that the PP in its management of the municipality in the last two decades has prioritized actions such as unbridled urbanism and instead has turned its back on measures that are mandatory in addition to being really important for Murcia, as This Prevention Plan is included in the PGOU's Environmental Monitoring Program (General Plan for Urban Planning). The attitude and priorities that the municipal PP has had and continues to have can be classified as very irresponsible, authorizing thousands of buildings without having this Plan approved. "

Micol regrets that although the PGOU Environmental Impact Assessment Study indicates that the municipality of Murcia has an important seismic hazard, "the City Council has not prepared any prevention plan in all these years."

Given the high risk of seismicity, "the Environmental Impact Assessment Study established measures for the PGOU related to preventing the risk of earthquakes and other threats, collected in the Environmental Monitoring Program, which remains unprocessed almost 20 years later."

"Even knowing this risk of seismicity in the municipality," says the mayor, "the City has not taken in all these years any measure to inform the population about the seismic situation and, above all, about what to do in case of an earthquake Other countries that have our municipality as a high seismicity if they make citizens aware, turning the possibility of earthquakes into something everyday and present from the schools. "

The Special Earthquake Prevention Plan must, at a minimum, identify and assess the risk of an earthquake;

have a detailed mapping of the location of the risk of earthquakes, establishing the relationship between this risk and the residential, industrial or service areas, infrastructures and crop areas, thus identifying the problem areas.

Likewise, preventive and corrective mechanisms should be designed that, if applicable, reduce the effects of an earthquake with an Action Program and an Investment Program.

As a concrete measure to minimize the adverse effects of high intensity seismic movements, the PGOU Environmental Impact Assessment Study establishes that it would be possible to reduce the height of the buildings in the areas identified as the maximum risk of the Environmental Inventory.

"Today," says the councilor, "17 years after the approval of the PGOU of the municipality, has not been carried out the development and approval of the Special Plan for Prevention of Earthquakes, but they have been built, however, thousands of homes approving urban plans for more than double the current population of the municipality. "

Significant seismic hazard

In the Environmental Impact Study carried out for the PGOU of the municipality of Murcia, different environmental variables were studied, among which were "the natural and induced risks", which are the degradation of soils;

the danger from floods, from slope instability, from subsidence and ground collapses;

the seismicity and the fire risk of the vegetal formations.

In the chapter on seismic hazard in the municipality of Murcia, the Environmental Impact Study makes an assessment of the factors that occur in the municipality and that influence the severity of an earthquake in the area.

The study indicates that the municipality of Murcia is located in an area where frequent seismic movements of medium intensity occur, that is, it has an important seismic hazard, which is among the highest in the Iberian Peninsula.

Source: Ahora Murcia