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50 students of Geography, University of Granada this morning visited the city to learn about earthquakes and their damage as well as the historical evolution of the city.
The field trip is intended to facilitate understanding by these future professionals of the territorial configuration of our town and how the urban environment can affect the fault running through it.
Councilmember Management and Recovery after the earthquake Lorca, Saturnino Martínez, received this morning Grade 50 students of Geography and Land Management from the University of Granada to visit along this morning for the city of Lorca learn more about earthquakes has suffered throughout its history and the damage it has caused and its territorial configuration and the historical evolution of the city.
Martínez Pérez noted that our city has become one of the main references for the university scientific community in the field of geological evolutionary analysis, becoming a veritable outdoor museum, since the consequences of geological development have made it very evident traces of the passage time, being especially clear in the eyes of subject matter experts.
In the case of the university mission to visit us this morning, this is a field trip led by professors Francisco Toro and David Zarco to analyze various physical and environmental units Lorca municipality, as is the Lorca-Totana, Alhama fault and how can affect urban areas, knowing the consequences caused by the earthquake of 2011 both buildings and cultural heritage.
The aim of the work day is to draw conclusions based on direct observation of such lorquino to enhance your preparation for the management of the territory, assessing the risks and caused problems and the processes of rehabilitation and reconstruction of buildings damaged in urban areas.
In addition, participants in this activity will study different processes of relief units in the area to also interpret the agricultural land use based on water resources and relief.
Also visit the castle area to identify the historical evolution of the city and its various stages of construction, while the Parador de Lorca know, to access details on how it was built and reinforced against possible landslides.
The mayor said "the territory of Lorca has become a place of study for multiple academic disciplines. Architects, technical architects, engineers, geologists, geographers, psychologists, art experts and tourism, ... used in situ as Lorca occurred in order to improve prevention, acting upon and reacting to the emergency caused by a situation such as occurred on May 11 three years ago. "
Be anticipated in this regard that in October Lorca host the second Iberian Meeting on active faults and paleoseismology (Iberfault 2014), which completed from a more professional point and training activities that have been carried out and have had their most popular performances in the two editions of Geolodía.
The profile of the municipality as an enclave of field research has been enhanced as a result of the strong earthquakes that struck the city on May 11, 2011, whose power and particular characteristics reawakened interest in the study of the peculiarities Geologic Lorca.
In fact one of the most outstanding examples of this was the development of a documentary by the prestigious National Geographic TV channel (NGC), which chose precisely the case of the earthquake in Lorca to start the series of reports that aired throughout the world under the title "The Birth of Europe."
The chapter Lorca called "Collision" and was made public in April 2012, including explanations of scientists, affected by earthquakes and municipal authorities, as was the case of Mayor of the city itself, Francisco Jodar.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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