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ARCHIVE SAQUISILÍ (ECUADOR), 15/08/2015 – View of an explosion in the Cotopaxi volcano today, Saturday, August 15, 2015, of the city of Saquisilí (Ecuador). The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, today decreed the state of emergency in the country as a result of an unusual activity of the Cotopaxi volcano – located in the center Andean country – which emanated from the ash and pyroclastic flows, which forced a preventive evacuation of certain populations. EFE / José Jácome
The public company Petroecuador and the National Polytechnic School (EPN) signed an interinstitutional technical cooperation agreement for early warnings of seismic or volcanic phenomena, a announced the oil company in a statement. 19659003] The agreement establishes a framework for alerting these incidents in the process of transportation, storage, refining and marketing of hydrocarbons of the public company.
According to the note, the agreement is in accordance with Article 389 of the Ecuadorian Constitution stating that "the state protects individuals, communities and the nature of the adverse effects of disasters natural or man-made by the prevention of risks and the mitigation of the effects of disasters ".
The importance of these alerts is that they will constitute a dissemination and communication tool of the hydrocarbon sector, stinadas to prevent or mitigate the effects of a natural disaster.
The agreement between the public company and the graduate school is long-term and it is expected that on other occasions, others will be specified for the next year. exchange of knowledge, concludes the memoir. . EFE
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