2024-05-15 08:33:12
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Yesterday, Sunday, Might 12, 2024, round 9 p.m., an earthquake was felt by some residents of the Bantounka 1 district, behind CMIS N⁰12, not removed from the Cosa roundabout, within the commune of Lambanyi. In keeping with residents met this Monday, Might 13, 2024, when the tremor occurred they felt the information as in the event that they had been going underground or following the motion of the chair which was transferring in all instructions.
For the second, these residents say they haven’t seen any cracks or on the homes, a lot much less on the bottom, and no materials or human harm has been famous for this tremor, which is a primary on this neighborhood.
To start with, Mamadou Saliou Diallo instructed that after they felt everybody fled their home and went exterior. “When folks felt the tremor, nobody informed their neighbors what was occurring, everybody took a tangent to flee their houses. Some had the impression that it was an electrical present and the motion lasted between 2 to three seconds,” he mentioned.
Persevering with, Souleymane Diallo, who virtually felt the information as his neighbor throughout the road instructed this: “this earth motion was felt round 9 p.m. A number of us gathered and watched a soccer match on tv and out of the blue when the tremors hit I had the impression that the earth was descending, my toes remained inert. My son with whom I used to be sitting facet by facet requested me, dad, is that the present? I answered no, that was stronger than the present, it was the earth that shook and we went exterior and located all of the households right here exterior, anxious and imploring God.
Mamadou Samba Barry, a fishing teacher who nonetheless remembers the earthquake that occurred within the Dar-es-salam district in 1983 and who has lived on this district for round thirty years, explains. “I felt it myself, I used to be stopped there alone, when it made noise I felt like I used to be leaping however I lastly understood that it was the earthquake. Due to the earthquake in 1983 I used to be in Dar-es-salam. However the motion can not exceed 5 seconds, in any case it did not final. However we discovered that utensils fell however I didn’t discover this. I urge the authorities to work to search out out what the true explanation for that is.” He additionally pleaded for the discount of drilling as a result of given the shortage of water from the SEG for many years, greater than ten drillings are positioned within the surrounding space.
Mamadou Yaya Barry