Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Peru's capital highly vulnerable to major quake | Reduction

Peru's capital highly vulnerable to major quake

Peru - Lima 061 - architecture of Plaza San Martin
Peru - Lima 061 - architecture of Plaza San Martin by mckaysavage
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
Excerpt:

LIMA, Peru –  The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 50-foot (15-meter) wall of Pacific Ocean crashed into the adjacent port of Callao, killing all but 200 of its 5,000 inhabitants. Bodies washed ashore for weeks. Plenty of earthquakes have shaken Peru's capital in the 266 years since that fateful night of Oct. 28, 1746, though none with anything near the violence. The relatively long "seismic silence" means that Lima, set astride one of the most volatile ruptures in the Earth's crust, is increasingly at risk of being hammered by a one-two, quake-tsunami punch as calamitous as what devastated Japan last year and traumatized Santiago, Chile, and its nearby coast a year earlier, seismologists say. Yet this city of 9 million people is sorely unprepared.

People:

Lima

Overall Sentiment: -0.212727

Relevance: 0.842743

Agustin Gonzalez

Overall Sentiment: -0.210759

Relevance: 0.215296

SentimentQuote
-0.112754"If you go to a fire station at 10 in the morning there's hardly anyone there," said Gonzalez, ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.112754
  • Mean: -0.112754
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
Disambiguation: References:

Gabriel Prado

Overall Sentiment: -0.0427647

Relevance: 0.213308

SentimentQuote
-0.230932"A quake similar to what happened in Santiago would break the country economically," said Gabriel Prado, ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.230932
  • Mean: -0.230932
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Jose Sato

Overall Sentiment: -0.40006

Relevance: 0.206514

SentimentQuote
0"We should have places where we can store water not just to put out fires but also to distribute water to the population," said Sato, ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0
  • Mean: 0
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Hernando Tavera

Overall Sentiment: -0.0164933

Relevance: 0.168006

Mayor Susana Villaran

Overall Sentiment: -0.154046

Relevance: 0.152252

Disambiguation: References:

Nueva Rinconada

Overall Sentiment: -0.0111182

Relevance: 0.150251

Hilarion Lopez

Overall Sentiment: -0.154196

Relevance: 0.144544

Maria Auxiliadora

Overall Sentiment: 0.0897835

Relevance: 0.134382

Franklin Briceno

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.131633

Carlos Zavala

Overall Sentiment: -0.298275

Relevance: 0.129098

SentimentQuote
0"People are building with adobe just as they did in the 17th century," said Carlos Zavala, ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0
  • Mean: 0
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

Country: Peru

Overall Sentiment: -0.18843

Relevance: 0.472614

Disambiguation: Location | GovernmentalJurisdictionReferences:
Site Header Details

No comments:

Post a Comment