Ecobreves – PERU:: Preventing Earthquake and Climate Disasters

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LIMA, Apr 7 2002 (IPS) - Peru's Geology, Mining and Metallurgy Institute carried out studies of 18 watersheds and three geological basins in an effort to diminish the impact of natural disasters in the country's central mountain region and along the southern coast. The analyses are seen as a tool to prevent damage caused by seismic movement in the coastal region, located over the unstable Nazca tectonic plate, and disasters caused by the El Niño climate phenomenon, a cyclical warming of the Pacific ocean that causes torrential rains and floods in this country.