This week, a team from the National Geographic Institute (IGN) visited to Crevillente to install a Silex accelerograph at the Town Hall, a seismic detector.
Along with the implementation of this instrument, the locality is incorporated into the xarxa d’accelerògrafs, which has 70 teams distributed throughout the country and 5 to the Valencian Community, Valencia, Xàtiva, Ontinyent and, ara, also to Crevillente.
The Mayor, José Manuel Penalva, has highlighted that this will improve the ability to assess the danys dels terratrèmols and to know the seismicity of the area, also with comptar amb sacsejades del sòl maps.
The fact that Crevillente is the second installation, explains the mayor, is “due to the fact that the municipality is situated between two tectonic faults, at a point of confluence of faults”. “In addition to collaborating with this state agency, the citizens of Crevillente can know, almost instantaneously, the repercussions that a seismic movement has affected our locality and the rest of the area,” said Penalva.
The Councillor for Citizen Protection, Josep Candela, has indicated that this system is active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Això allows that it is possible to monitor the data and transmit them in real time to the Xarxa Sismica Nacional d’Espanya, to Madrid, through the Internet connection. It is, therefore, a very useful instrument to monitor the earthquakes and the behaviour of the sun and to be able to dispose of better information regarding emergencies of this type.
