Columbia's Plate Converging and Disaster Preparedness

As of late, Columbia has experienced quite a lot of earthquakes.There are few a explanations as to why the country is a victim of so many earthquakes.First, Columbia is near to four plates that converge all at the corner of Columbia. Those plates as you can see in the pictures that are presented are the Nazca,South American,Caribbean and Cocos plate. Not only does the four plates converge but in the latest research, their has been a discovery of a tear in the South American plate. This explains a lot of the question that has rose to the surface about Columbia's geology.

Since Columbia experiences earthquakes, there has been a database set up to monitor and scan for movements,The database has recorded has recorded more than 100,000 Colombian earthquakes.

Columbia has also built a National System for Disaster Management and Prevention, associated a comprehensive National Disaster Prevention and Attention. 

 

For more information regarding Columbia's Disaster Plan, please go check out this link below http://www.gfdrr.org/sites/gfdrr.org/files/Colombia-2010.pdf:

http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/slab-tear-explains-perplexing-colombian-earthquake-activity

Columbian Mining

With Columbia being one of the largest producers in hard coal,they have lots of issues - for example - human rights violations.Nevertheless, they export most of their coal to European markets. Most of their exports from other South American mines are routed through terminals on the Atlantic coast. Columbia is one of the six ports,along with Venezuela. On the Pacific coast, the sole expert terminal is Puerto De Mamonal on the north coast of Columbian.