2023-09-22 17:39:26
With the activation of the National COE, it was announced that the yellow alert changed to orange. At the cantonal level, they also activated working groups for prevention and therefore action in different sensitive points such as the increase in river flow. the release of closed streams, landslides and potential mass movements.
In this way, Dayana Campaña, zonal director 3 of the Risk Management Secretariat, explained that the change from yellow to orange alert refers to the El Niño Southern Oscillation Phenomenon, which is understood as an ocean-atmospheric process that causes the climatological variability and is recorded in the part of the Ecuadorian Pacific Ocean, they also considered the historical background to change the alert to orange.
With the analysis they would determine heavy rainfall that would generate mass movements, landslides, forest fires or droughts.
With the forest fires, the multiple ones that have been recorded so far this month would also generate difficulties because they become loose soil, which is why they also urge citizens to be careful, because it is not only a loss of the ecosystem , but if it occurs on slopes it constitutes a danger for landslides.
At the provincial level there are areas with difficulties that already have constant monitoring, which is why Campaña explained that in Alausí they implemented a methodology called extensometers in which the residents of the sectors where the mass movement occurred are part of the monitoring they develop.
The extensometers, which are two tubes, one mobile and the other fixed with a pulley that allows monitoring the cracks that exist, also do so with the participation of the Municipality. The community participates in this and reports the readings after the rain.
The Provincial COE was activated on September 20, the publication on the Government’s Facebook page indicates the yellow alert due to mass movements in Chunchi.
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