Lack of Technical Supervision in Housing Increases Vulnerability to Earthquakes

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After the constant replicas recorded in Chimbote, the engineer Pedro Vázquez Heredia points out that the informality in the construction and the non-compliance with the technical norms puts at risk the national security. The recent seismic activity in the north of the country, which included a movement of 6 degrees on the Richter scale and more than 30 replicas, has again put under the magnifying glass the fragility of the urban structures in th…