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Strong Winds Cause Trees to Fall in Cochabamba and Mobilize
Summary
The strong winds recorded this Friday in the city of Cochabamba, with gusts greater than 52 kilometers per hour, caused the fall of trees in different parts of the city and mobilized emergency personnel to attend to the incidents.
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The phenomenon began around 15:00 and was accompanied by a dense cloud of dust that reduced visibility and partially darkened the city for more than half an hour.
The intense and lasting winds that struck this afternoon the southern flank of the Tunari mountain range and the city of Cochabamba reached speeds of about 60 kilometers per hour, according to the scale of Beaufort. Indeed, this scale – originally conceived to calculate the speed of the gusts in the sea and then adapted for those occurrences on land – gives a rating of “Force 7 (Very strong 51-61 km/h)” when it can be observed that “All large t…