Two C5 officials fired due to failures of 6,574 CDMX seismic warning posts

At least two officials of the The command, control, IT, communication and citizen contact center (C5) has been abolished after reporting earthquake exercises and after, a false alarm will force the residents of Mexico to be evacuated, although there was no tremor.

Claudia Sheinbaum, head of government of the capital, asked for a review Juan Manuel Garcia Ortegón, coordinator of C5, after continuous errors on the night of 19 and in the morning of Saturday 20 March, with which the layoffs were given.

“I asked him to act, because it is very serious, it is not something minor. The seismic alarm saves lives. It is not minor that there were two consecutive errors. I told him to take a test, to act, He has already asked for resignations, including from the people who took care of this number“Said the chief executive in Mexico City.

According to data from C5, The false alarm of this March 20 was recorded at 8:16 a.m., when one of the two systems that reproduce the alert sound was not functioning correctly. With him, 5 thousand 600 poles out of the 12 thousand 826 where the alert is broadcast in the event of an earthquake were affected. Consequently, Thousands of people only got scared and left their homes, without there being any tremors.

“Sure In reports from some speakers in which, at the end of the seismic alert message, the reference to a borehole was heard, 974 poles were identified that exhibited this defect, which has already been corrected. This situation was entirely the result of human error.», Assured the agency.

And it is that before, At 9:06 p.m. this Friday, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake was noticeable in the country’s capital, which had as its epicenter a point 59 kilometers southeast of San Marcos, Guerrero. The same was felt in Oaxaca, Mexico State, Morelos, Puebla and Michoacán.

But in networks, Users in Mexico City complained that after the alert sounded, a message was broadcast indicating only one exercise. This intrigued the population, because the earthquake happened. After that, the C5 accepted the error and apologized.

According to netizens, some of the sites where the message was disseminated were in the Roma neighborhood, Coyoacán, Narvarte, Zona Tlalpan and Churubusco, Iztapalapa, Escandón, Iztacalco, in the northern area of ​​San Juan Aragón, Azcapotzalco, among others.

In addition to all that, at least 400 messages did not alert the population, for example, in Tlatelolco, where neighbors have expressed their disagreement. Claudia Sheinbaum recognized the sum of failures during the inauguration of the sport “Leona Vicario” in the office of the mayor of Gustavo A. Madero.

By adding the positions affected in the two events, the failures can be counted to 6574, as indicated by C5. In other words, half of the system of those who alert.

“Yes We had one problem was that a significant percentage of the seismic alarms had the announcement as if it was a borehole, in a thousand out of 12 thousand, more or less. And there were about 400, more or less, that didn’t have the alarm.

“The earthquake was less than six, so in some cases it may be for this reason, but it is a very serious mistake to say that it is an exercise when in reality it is an earthquake. It is very bad that there was this message. And this morning, without a message, a group of seismic alarms was activated, which is also very bad, that», Condemned the doctor in energy engineering.

On the morning of March 20, the National Seismology Service (SSN) reported the false activation of the alert on its social networks: “At 8:16 am, in some areas of the CDMX, the seismic alert was falsely activated. SSN reports that at that time there is no sign of a violent earthquake in the country ”.

Almost immediately, social media users began to attack the official, accusing him of activating the alert without the presence of an earthquake. Finally the review has taken place and you can resign them to increase.

“They have the right to protest. A review was performed and there was a problem. When we have these problems, we have to recognize them, we have to speak up and we have to take the necessary action. And Juan Manuel is there to check everything, to have everything sorted out today. So far there are only two people, but even I asked for a major overhaul. I don’t want to label it, but These are mistakes that cannot be made and have to do with not paying attention to something as important as the seismic alarm.“Said the head of government.

During earthquakes during a health emergency, the SSN recommends take advantage of this time to prepare and Be ready a Family plan Yes backpack of emergency Contains: flashlight, radio without internet, TV or telephone networks, water, non-perishable food, warm clothes, lighter or matches, whistle, photocopy with all your documents, copy of house keys, medicines or milk cans.

About the March 19 event, at least 24 aftershocks had been counted at 1:00 p.m. on March 20, the largest was of magnitude 4.6. Regarding the 7.4 magnitude earthquake, which occurred in Oaxaca on June 23, 2020 and which left nearly 10,000 homes affected and 10 dead, there were 16,530 aftershocks until March 20, 2021, the largest of which was was 5.7.

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