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The emergency couldn’t be avoided, but it could be managed properly with scientific perspective.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo     EL PASO (Canary Islands), Spain – On September 19 th , 2021, 15:10 local time (1410 GMT), a crack broke amid a pine forest at Cabeza de Vaca Place. A big amount of wáter steam, gases, pyroclastic matter, and lava began to flow like a jet – a volcano had borning.   During 85 days, the incandescent matter covered up around 4.6 sq mi, affected 3000 buildings, displaced 7000 people. Also, it razed banana plantations that support part of the economy in La Palma Island , the most north-western of Canary Islands. The tourism , that activates the other part of the economic motor, was held constant but not massive like the pre-eruptive period.   For the science, it was a time to secure learning and how it allows to administer a developing natural disaster, webcast worldwide real-time, just one casualty indirectly rela...

La emergencia no se pudo evitar, pero con enfoque científico sí se pudo manejar adecuadamente.   Por Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo     EL PASO (Canarias), España – El 19 de setiembre de 2021 a las 15:10 tiempo local (1410 GMT), una grieta se abrió en medio de un bosque de pinos en el  predio Cabeza de Vaca. Una gran cantidad de vapor de agua, gases, material piroclástico y lava comenzó a fluir como si fuese un surtidor: un volcán había nacido.   Durante 85 días, el material incandescente cubrió alrededor de 12,5 km 2 , afectó a 3000 dificaciones y desplazó a 7000 personas. Además, arrasó sembríos  de plátano que sustentan parte de la economía en la isla de La Palma , la más noroccidental del archipiélago de las Canarias. El turismo , que activa la otra parte del motor económico, se mantuvo constante aunque no con la masividad del periodo pre-eruptivo.   Para la ciencia fue una etapa de afianzar aprendizajes y cómo éstos permiten gest...

The quakes have a sort of weak point – the science learned how to take advantage of it.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo     SANTA MARÍA DE NIEVA, Peru – On November 28th, 2021, 5:52 PET (1052 GMT), a 7.5 magnitude quake shook Barranca District, Datem del Marañón Province , Loreto Department – it was mostly felt in the Peruvian Northern’s third and 19 of 24 provinces in Ecuador. A portion of Colombian Southern and a piece of Brasilian Western also felt the shake. A 3-year-old boy passed away, there were dozens of wounded, more than thousand injured, and such other damaged or unhabitable buildings.   Peru’s Geophysical Institute (IGP, as its initials in Spanish), the official bureau watching and reporting if a quake happens, launched a notification on the social media just 8 minutes after many people jumped out their beds in the most occidental portion of South America. The information came from Santa María de Nieva, Amazonas Department, 60 miles to...