Environmental Impacts Produced on Earthquake in Province of Manabí

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Earthquakes mostly cause environmental impacts, from the moment the phenomenon occurs, until the anthropic action of the human helping to rebuild what was destroyed, but the first impacts are recorded in the landscape. The behavior of these phenomena is different according to the type of area where they occur. In populated areas, the effects of spills and damaged pipes (gas, water, sewage, and garbage) have noticed as time goes by. Near the epicenter of the event, it is advisable not to drink the water from the pipes as it may be contaminated. According to studies carried out by Perez (2017), earthquakes have a high environmental impact index, not only in populated places but also in nature: the changes at the landscape level are the most obvious, then come to the aftermath on earth. The biodiversity that abounds in one sector will also have affected. The most traumatic has related to the loss of human lives, which has a differentiated behavior from one earthquake to another, influencing the level of preparedness of citizenship to face this type of calamity (Negrete, 2018).

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