01/19/2021 9:52 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/19/2021 5:42 PM
At least 50 aftershocks of the earthquake that shocked San Juan in the early morning have occurred since then in different parts of the province but also
reached Jujuy, Salta and La Rioja
, reported the National Institute of Seismic Prevision (Inpres).
In
Mendoza
property damage were reported.
According to the institute, the aftershocks of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that was registered in San Juan were with variable intensities
of between 4.9 and 2.5 magnitude
.
The Media Agua area, where the epicenter occurred, was the most affected and most of the aftershocks were recorded there.
The Inpres geophysicist, Gerardo Sánchez, confirmed that "the aftershocks perceived were at least 12 and we have not received more than 50 but so far we cannot specify the exact number because we are processing and updating the information as we receive it."
Along the same lines, the specialist indicated that based on earthquakes such as the one that occurred in Salta in 2010, which was of a magnitude of 6.1 degrees, or the one in Jujuy in 2011, which was of 5.9 degrees, "this could have aftershocks from here to six months, which will decrease as time passes. "
Sánchez added that the strongest aftershock "already occurred at 00.37 hours and
was at a magnitude of 4.9 degrees
, at least, it is what we expect as the strongest, we do not expect an aftershock with a greater magnitude."
Quake in San Juan: several aftershocks were registered in a few minutes.
@MRamirezPD via Diario Los Andes
Although most of them took place within San Juan, the movements were felt in Salta, near San Antonio de los Cobres;
in La Rioja, on the border with Chile and another 52 kilometers from the provincial capital;
and in Jujuy, 145 kilometers from San Salvador.
The province of Mendoza, for its part, reported
the collapse of twelve minor structures
, but without victims or injuries, according to a Civil Defense report.
Las Heras was the department that registered the most damage and, according to the report, suffered the collapse of a dividing wall, pebble (Uspallata), detachment of the roof, a masonry, two roofs and a cracked wall.
In addition, in Maipú a house collapsed.
Meanwhile, in Guaymallén a house suffered cracking in two walls, in Maipú a wall and in Junín there was a pebble fall.
"In none of the cases reported by the municipal coordinators were there to regret human victims," the spokesmen indicated.
The earthquake,
registered exactly at 11:46 p.m. on Monday
, was felt in parts of the country such as Mendoza, Córdoba, Santa Fe, La Rioja, Buenos Aires and even neighborhoods in the City of Buenos Aires.
According to the report of network users and neighbors, the material damages that occurred in the areas most affected by the phenomenon were cracks in buildings, pavements and public roads and falling poles.
The original epicenter was in the town of Media Agua, a town that is usually a stopover for travelers in San Juan.
A
depth of 8 kilometers was reported
, a situation that implied that the shakes were felt with greater intensity.
Strong earthquake in Villa Media Agua, San Juan, was perceived in several provinces.
/ Telam
When giving a press conference during the early hours of this Tuesday, the governor of San Juan, Sergio Uñac, did not rule out that there may be several aftershocks of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that was registered in the province.
"It is probable that there may be aftershocks, but you have to be prudent," the governor had warned.
Virginia, a resident of Media Agua, told
TN
that the earthquake found her sleeping at home.
"The walls were falling down and we had stayed inside, we couldn't get out. The clothes jumped out of the closet," the woman said and showed the remains of her humble home, which lost the entire roof.
"You can't continue here, I don't know what we're going to do, I have nowhere to go, my family can't help me," he lamented, adding that one of his five children was playing ball with friends and told him that
"they fell to the ground and cried together
.
"
During the press conference, Uñac stressed that "after the 1944 earthquake the Province has been working with a building code that has allowed a high percentage of its construction to be earthquake resistant and that has allowed it to withstand in a different way, having been of a magnitude similar to the earthquake from 1944, as well as 1977 ".
The governor also reported that
"there are different routes under national or provincial jurisdiction in which there were some cracks
, for example on Route 40, in transit between the department of Pocito and Sarmiento," for which he advised to travel carefully through the affected arteries. .
With information from Télam.
JPE - AFG
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