Experts: Over 14 Disaster Threaten Algerians

Northern cities of Algeria from west to east are threatened with 14 dangerous major disaster, including natural and other technological that reached a very few southern cities of the nation, especially after the recording of earthquakes and floods in various areas recently,International experts in the Cities Development and Geological Hazards said.

“These phenomena require taking into account the processing of cities’ schemes for the conduct of disasters and protection from disappearing, especially the country’s capital which current situation required a long-term plan for protection from disasters.”

Algerian expert and international consultant in city development, Farouk Tebbal, said, on the sidelines of the school day on the guideline scheme for flexibility and the three-dimensional urban map for Algiers lands, which was organized on Monday; “It has become necessary to process cities with schemes that protect them from disasters, by finding various ways, means and prior precautions to face the dangers and disasters, especially the nation’s capital, which is considered the country’s lifeblood, as it is bringing together various departments and ancient buildings, as it includes various oil and gas stores, which require special care to avoid natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, droughts, locusts, wind, and the technological which include fires, explosions, pollution, and even traffic accidents.”

For his part, the international expert in geological threats, Azzedine Boudiaf, said that Algiers could be affected by an earthquake that may damage it locally or close to it, which requires taking quick measures to cope with such natural hazards and think about the long-term plans to avoid fragile flooring, resistant earthquake building, and eliminating all that is a fragile building, to cope with the methodology that is adopted by many countries, and which showed significant efficacy like Istanbul, Turkey, and Dhaka, Bangladesh and Japan. 

“School day will be allowed to give the opportunity to provide a study to keep continuity to the country’s capital, which is operational and effective in the case of a strong earthquake, and it will only be realized through the efforts of all sectors.”

Participants said that all the earthquakes that are taking place in some areas these days are very usual, and come within the seismic activity that is repeated every 20 or 10 years, since the earth breathes and gets rid of its esoteric energy every time, it is convenient so as not to witness violent tremors.

In context, the Interior Ministry’s General-Secretary, Mazouz Houssine, asserted that the state has taken, in the context of prevention from major risks and management of disasters, a “national system” which is based on the strengthening of monitoring systems for early and rapid warning, while Algiers Governor Zoukh spoke about the development of a “vigilance service” at the administrative and municipalities level to follow floods and rapid intervention.