SANTO DOMINGO. - The country’s South zone doesn’t rest on a large geological fault as was feared in the past, which reduces seismic risks and constitutes the good news for those concerned with what sparked the tragedy in Haiti, after the recent devastating quake.

The finding was announced in the conference “Some secrets which the sea hides: Geologic investigation in Dominican Republic waters,” dictated by the head of Alcala Madrid University Geodynamics Department, Andres Carbó.

The researcher based his statement on the joint studies by the Spanish Navy’s Royal Observatory, the Oceanography Institute and the Dominican organizations such as the Mining Agency, the Geologic Service, Navy and the Santo Domingo State University UASD, under the directives of the Spanish oceanographic research ship Hespérides.

“A change of geologic configuration is detected, what is called a tectonic model, allowing a prolongation towards the sea, of the limit established on land between the Hispaniola block and the one of Gonave. This explains why the migration of the breakage at the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault develops towards the west and practically doesn’t affect Dominican Republic,” Carbó said.

The geologist spoke in the activity organized by the National Authority on Maritime Affairs (ANAMAR), a governmental agency which coordinates Dominican Republic’s marine policies.


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What the hell, Haitians in the "Anaphora" were anxious for the big one to hit the DR and now this?

Danm, they most be kicking themselves in Brooklyn.