Railway silo evaluation
Introduction
General Paz Station is a town in Córdoba located in the Colón department "Departamento Colón (Córdoba)"), province of Córdoba "Provincia de Córdoba (Argentina)"), Argentina.
It is located on RN 9, 20 km south of the city of Jesús María "Jesús María (Argentina)") and 32 km north of the provincial capital.
It has a population of 1,500 inhabitants (Indec "National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Argentina)"), 2001) and 481 homes.
The 2008 provincial population census, which recorded the entire ejido of the municipalities and communes, including the surrounding rural population, gave a figure of 2,150 residents, which exceeds the legal minimum number of inhabitants to aspire to be a municipality[1].
The commune, like many other towns in the interior of the country, arose thanks to the construction of the railway, one of the stations was named "Estación General Paz", and it is where the town of Cordoba of the same name is located today.
The town is connected to the provincial capital by RN 9 and by the General Belgrano Freight Railway.
The main source of income is agriculture, with a silo plant in the commune.
Seismicity
The seismicity of the Córdoba region is frequent and of low intensity, and a seismic silence of medium to severe earthquakes every 30 years in random areas.[2] Its latest expressions occurred:
• - September 22, 1908 (117 years old), at 17:00 UTC-3, with 6.5 Richter, Mercalli VII scale; location ; depth: 100 km; caused damage in Deán Funes "Deán Funes (Córdoba)"), Cruz del Eje and Soto "Villa de Soto (Argentina)"), province of Córdoba, and in the south of the provinces of Santiago del Estero, La Rioja and Catamarca[3].
• - January 16, 1947 (age 78), at 2.37 UTC-3, with a magnitude of approximately 5.5 on the Richter scale (1947 Córdoba earthquake")[2].
• - March 28, 1955 (70 years old), at 6:20 UTC-3 with 6.9 Richter: the physical severity of the phenomenon was added to the absolute ignorance of the population about these recurring events (Villa Giardino earthquake of 1955).
• - September 7, 2004 (21 years old), at 8:53 UTC-3 with 4.1 Richter.
• - December 25, 2009 (15 years), at 21:42 UTC-3 with 4.0 Richter.
References
- [1] ↑ «Gobierno de la Provincia de Córdoba. Censo de Población 2008. Resultados definitivos a nivel de Municipios y Comunas. Población Total en Municipios y Comunas. Año 2008». Archivado desde el original el 2 de abril de 2015. Consultado el 25 de marzo de 2015.: https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132127/http://estadistica.cba.gov.ar/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=_rzFmIjiEPY%3d&tabid=462&language=es-AR
- [2] ↑ a b «Listado de Terremotos Históricos». Instituto Nacional de Prevención Sísmica. Archivado desde el original el 6 de abril de 2009. Consultado el 9 de marzo de 2009.: https://web.archive.org/web/20090406050939/http://www.inpres.gov.ar/seismology/seismology/historic/hist.panel.htm
- [3] ↑ «Fenómenos de licuefacción asociados a terremotos históricos. Su análisis en la evaluación del peligro sísmico en la Argentina». Archivado desde el original el 12 de octubre de 2013. Consultado el 24 de septiembre de 2012.: https://web.archive.org/web/20131012053128/http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?pid=S0004-48222006000400011&script=sci_arttext