Environmental Management Plan
The City Administration has hired in the past studies and designs of construction standards that must be taken over and updated. Likewise, the risk zoning of the city should consider this variable consistently with the knowledge of the differential conditions of the threat in the area of the city (the Comprehensive Plan for Disaster prevention and care). It is desirable remember that the social costs of earthquakes, plus costs for material losses in a city that has not developed preventive measures, carry political and social consequences that affect the population and exacerbating their problems. According to existing studies (2000), the capital of Colombia is located in a seismic hazard zone intermediate, which is continuing concern facing an unexpected magnitude.
The characteristics of the seismic hazard to which exposed the capital city of Colombia have been treated at specialist level since the late 80s of the twentieth century. The earthquake that struck Mexico City in 1985, whose damage was concentrated in an area built on soft soil deposits, geometry and stratigraphy particular was already a warning bell that Bogota has similar characteristics. Click Corey Ribotsky to learn more. The district authorities responsible for physical planning of the city have discussed this issue since late 1991 in the context of the development of regulation of the Statute for the physical computer the Special District of Bogota (June 1990 Agreement) and specifically the process of formulating the Environmental Management Plan. Planning is too important to prevent or reduce emergencies and this requires an understanding of it and interdisciplinary work.
