Mexico city major ask emergency $$$$ to prepare for next big Earthquake

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It takes plan of maneuverses today; they will ask for to Property the canalization of extraordinary resources, superiors to 5 billions of pesos, to realize works of mitigation of risks
The head of the Government of the Federal District, Marcelo Ebrard, will ask for to the Secretariat of Property and Crédito Público (SHCP) the canalization of extraordinary resources, superiors to 5 billions of pesos, to realize of urgent form works of mitigation of risks, the substitution of new ruinous house by and the revision of buildings.

This with the idea to prevent any incident that could take place in the Mexican capital before an earthquake of great intensity, like which they have registered themselves in other parts of the world and the country in recent dates.

The announcement made the local agent chief executive to hours of which an earthquake of 4,9 degrees in the scale of Richter was registered in the city of Mexico, with epicenter in the state of Michoacán.

The request of resources is elaborated by the secretary of Civil defense of the Federal District, Elías Brown Miguel Brizuela, and in her the detail of its destiny will be included: thousand 500 million weights to realise mitigation works in sites of high risk of all type, like ravines, slopes and channels of river.

In addition, 3 thousand 500 million will be considered to more take care of the additional to carry out workings of revision of buildings public and deprived necessity of 12 thousand houses of high structural risk, that they require to be renewed or to be reinforced, and resources of the capital.

The next week, according to Ebrard, will occur to know detail the request that it will send to the federal government and who, of being necessary, also will be made arrive at the federal House of Representatives.

The civil servant commented that in the Federal District there are thousand 500 considered zones of risk, like the Rome colony, where revisions take place and in which will work the brigades of attention in case of an earthquake.

“We are going to have to speed up with respect to many houses and buildings, repair of buildings, although are not governmental, and for that yes we are going to need resources”, commented.

In that sense, it said that the intention is that the federal government gives of immediate form the resources that will be asked for to him because the local administration is about to initiate the demolition of vicinities through Institute of House of the city of Mexico (Invi).

“He is better to dedicate us to the prevention that to hope that we have a contingency unfortunately, is better to do it now because we would save lives”, it affirmed.

They keep provisions

Marcelo Ebrard informed that they have begun the storage of foods, medecines, water and instruments of rescue in 17 spaces, that are in charge of the Greater Oficialía. It commented that his government counts with more than thousand 500 million weights in his budget to realize - to traverse of different dependencies prevention workings before an intense earthquake, “but we need resources, that we wanted to have the support to be able to destine them the sooner to those aims”.

It said that in the city budgetary limitations face, since of the federal resources that it asked for in December for civil defense, nothing was authorized, but of not securing an extension, they will work and so there is.

Maneuvers surprise

Like part of the prevention strategy, residential maneuverses in state schools and units will be realized every month, but also they will be organized without previous warning in buildings where there are government facilities.

The intention is to know the reaction the officials government before an earthquake alert, that they will not know if she is real or fictitious, and to measure his degree of answer.

As of today, any day a massive maneuvers in capable hours can take place, and the same will be made in non workable hours to prepare to people before a telluric movement of importance, that could appear.