Earthquake August 15th 2007 Peru

15 / 08 / 2007
Terremoto / Earthquake
7.9 Richter

Report update: August 26th 2007

On wednesday 15th august 2007 at 18:40 an earthquake 7.9 Richter shaked the southern central coast of Perú devastating the cities of Ica, Chincha, Pisco and Cañete plus the rural areas in the surrounding coast and in an extense region of the highlands in the Andes.

On thursday evening YCPA called for volunteers to form a Damages and Needs Assessment Team, in short EDAN.

The YCPA EDAN TEAM activities were as follows:

Friday August 17th
Coordination meeting to set the groups with the volunteers available, to study on the maps the work area for the assessment, asignement of the duties, determine material resources available and needed, give instructions to do the job.

From the experience of previous events the work area was focused on the remote rural zones where relief takes too long to arrive.

The area choosen to assess was the rural zone along the left wing of the Cañete valley.

Saturday August 18th
Bus trip to Cañete
Contact with Defensa Civil officials to define the work field.
Overnight in camp in Cañete

Sunday August 19th
From 6 am to 7 pm Damages and needs assessment along the proposed area.
Return to Cañete and data process to output a report with conclusions and determine needs.

Monday August 20th
Submision of the report to the Defensa Civil officials
Return to Lima

END OF EDAM TEAM ASSESMENT IN THE RURAL AREA OF CAÑETE

Tuesday August 21st to Friday 24th
Work on collecting and forwarding relief goods to bring help to the affected people of the area assessed

Saturday 25th
Shipping of 10 tons of reflief goods to the damnified families

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We want to say thank you to all the ones that made possible relief to reach the families of the towns assessed

GOD
Luis Gonzáles Posada, President of the Congress of Perú
Hugo Rovira, Director of the Congress of Perú
Evelien Oostdijh, Volunteer, medicine estudent
César Espinoza, Volunteer, computing engineer
Félix Anaya, Volunteer, rescuer
General FAP Trigoso, Coordinator of the Donations Center at the National Stadium in Lima
José Abanto, Major Official of the Congress of Perú
Empresa de Transportes CIVA
Paige Marie Reeves, Orphans International Worldwide
Karsten Koch, Living in Perú editor
Miles Buest, South American Explorers manager
Marc Alan Young, Hands On disaster response
Stephanie Chang, Hands On disaster response
Team of Tribunal Constitucional

SUMMARY OF THE ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR THE RURAL AREA OF CAÑETE

Towns assessed

- Herbay Alto
- San Juan
- Espíritu Santo Palo
- Isla Baja
- Isla Alta
- San Carlos
- Concon
- Ramadilla
- Socsi

Estimated population: 4070

Damages on persons: 1 injured

Material damages:
Houses destroyed: 35
Houses inhabitable: 349
Houses damaged: 136
Schools inhabitable: 2
Schools damaged: 1
Public buildings inhabitable: 3
Electricity supply instalations: severely damaged
Irrigation channels: 23 km destroyed
Rural roads: 5.1 km severely damaged
Animals lost: 200 chickens, 800 guinea pigs

URGENT NEEDS:
384 tents for the families sleeping out in the cold and under the rain
Repair the irrigation channels in order to save the crops
Repair the rural roads used to bring the harvest out to the markets

Rural Cañete scenario

YCPA FIRST RESPONSE
August 18th
DAMAGES AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN THE WORK FIELD: THE RURAL AREA ON THE LEFT WING OF THE LOWER CAÑETE VALLEY ALONG 40 KM FROM HERBAY ALTO UP TO SOCSI

August 25th
FORWARDING OF RELIEF GOOD FOR THE DAMNIFIEDS OF
THE RURAL AREA ON THE LEFT WING OF THE LOWER CAÑETE VALLEY FROM HERBAY ALTO UP TO SOCSI

THERE IS STILL A LOT TO DO...

COME JOIN US
TO HELP THE PEOPLE IN NEED

PLEASE BE GENEROUS DONOR

Friday 17th Coordination meeting

Sat 18th Upon arrival at Cañete

Emergency Operations Center at Cañete

YCPA team at Cañete

First night in the work field

Getting ready to go

Assessment at Herbay alto

Damages at Herbay alto

Rural road to San Juan

Damages at San Juan

Kids from San Juan

Damages at San Juan

Assessment at San Juan

Homeless at San Juan

Damages at San Juan

Damages at Espiritu Santo Palo

Assessment at Isla Baja

Damages at Isla Baja

People fromIsla Baja

Damages at Isla Alta

Medical assessment at Isla Alta

People from Isla Alta

No damages at San Carlos

Assessment at San Carlos

YCPA team at San Carlos

No damages at San Carlos

Finding the way to concon

Assessment at Concon

Damages at Concon

YCPA team at Concon

Angels at Concon: Evelien and Felix

YCPA team at Concon

Homeless at Concon

Road damage at Concon

Assessment at Ramadilla

Damages at Ramadilla

Homeless at Ramadilla

Damages at Ramadilla

Road damage at Ramadilla

Overcoming the road damage at Ramadilla

Road damage at Ramadilla

Road damage at Socsi

Damages at Socsi

People from Socsi

Assessment at Socsi

People from Socsi

Angels at Socsi

Leaving from Hacienda Montalvan

Damages at Hacienda Montalvan

Angels from Cañete: Guerrero family

Processing the assessment data

Emergency supplies warehouse at Cañete

Map of the work field: Rural areas south of Cañete
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National Stadium donations center

Forwarding help to Herbay Alto

Angels: Marc & Stephanie

Hands on helping

Solidarity

Angel: Tercero, our truck driver

Angel: INDECI official

Angels: Tribunal Constitucional team

Forwarding help to Herbay Alto

Angels: Tribunal Constitucional team

Forwarding help to Herbay Alto

Angel: Hugo Rovira

Angels: Stephanie & Paige

Angels: Congress and INDECI officials

Angels: Donations giving people

Engine problems with truck

Upon arrival at Herbay Alto

Angels at Herbay Alto

At Herbay Alto

Angels at Herbay Alto

Help reached Herbay Alto

Angels at Herbay Alto

Help reached Herbay Alto

Help reaching Herbay Alto

Angel at Herbay Alto: Werner from the Congress

Help reaching Herbay Alto

Smiling faces from Herbay Alto

Lots of thanks from Herbay Alto

Earthquake siblings: Rural Cañete 2nd assessment: Irrigation channels. Please help.

Report update: Sep 9 2007

At present we, the Yanapasayki members, are working forwarding help to the people affected by the earthquake in the rural areas of Cañete.

Pictures are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/yanapasayki/

We have focused on this particular area because from our previous experience on disasters in Perú the remote rural areas are the most forgotten vulnerable and affected but the less attended and get almost no help.

This has proven to be true when we found on day 3 after the quake that we were the first assessment team deployed in this area.
One week after the assessment the unique truck with relief goods and donations for these people arrived, send by us thanks to the generous help and donations received from friends and people that heard our call for help.

The expatriates list members were the most generous ones and for them the people from the towns on the left wing of the cañete valley are thankful forever.

From that preliminary assessment urgent needs became known.

One of the most critical issues are the irrigation channels that were severely damaged by the earthquake. These people are farmers and their crops are in danger to be lost if the channels are not repaired soon. The consecuences of losing the crops and the lands will be even worse for them than the earthquake itself.

This week we went back twice to rural Cañete, together with Edwin Mitchell a expat list member and Freddy Monteblanco a peruvian living in USA, to make complementary asessments of the irrigation channels to have more accurate information of the real situation of the irrigation channels in order to forward help if possible.

On the first complementary assessment done on tuesday september 4th we visited the extense farming area surrounding Cañete and found that the earthquake has severely affected about 40 km of the drain channels and some sections of the farming lands have sunk in the ground down to 2 meters under the original level and the land is cracked everywhere, this is very impressive. The consecuence of this damage is that the underground streams of water are flowing up to the surface due to the drain channels collapsed and the farming lands are getting flooded from the bottom. The estimated affected area is about 15,928 hectares according with the data provided by the local agriculture officials.

The solution for this problem is to repair the drain channels with heavy machinery to avoid these lands and crops to be lost.

For the drain channels repair following is needed
a. 2 sets of heavy machinery, each set consists of: 4 trucks, 2 turbotractors, 1 front loader, 1 backhoe. The machinery will be provided by the Regional Government.
b. Technical assesorship. Provided by the local agriculture officials
c. Fuel for the machinery

On the second complementary assessment done on friday september 7th we visited the rural area on the left wing of the cañete valley. Here the problem is different, the irrigation channel that waters this lands is affected by leaking water, it does not just leak drops but streams in a lenght of about 500 meters . The earthquake have cracked the ground under the channel and lots of water is being lost by flowing underground to the nearby cliff facing the cañete river basin.

This lose of water does not seems to be so bad, but the very bad consecuence of this is that the underground stream of water is affecting severely the soil compactness and causing a rapid erosion, this will lead to a dangerous landslide that will affect the rural road, the farming lands and parts of the nearby towns. The present and inmediate consecuence of the lose of water is that not enough water is reaching the furthest lands where crops are in danger to be lost.

The solution for this problem is to repair the irrigation channels inmediately in the term of one week by reinforcing and protecting the channel walls and bottom with concrete to avoid the lose of water and stop the underground erosion.

For the irrigation channel repair following is needed:
1. 500 sacks of Cement
2. Hand work. 30 men volunteers are available from the local towns
3. Food for the workers.
4. Wood to make the frameboxes for the channel. This issue will be obtained by the Cañete municipality.
5. Transport facilities and fuel. Provided by the Cañete municipality
6. 12 wheel barrows.
7. 1 cement mixer (rented)
8. Technical assesorship. 1 technician hired for 1 week.

Converting all these words in numbers following is needed:

For drain channels repair project.

Fuel: 31,500 gallons
Price per gallon: S/. 10.69 (U$ 3.39)
Total: S/. 336,735 (U$ 106,900)

For 500 meters of irrigation channel repair project .

Cement: 500 sacks x S/. 23.00 each sack = S/. 11,500 (U$ 3,651)
Wheelbarrows: 12 x S/. 100 each = S/. 1,200 (U$ 381)
Cement mixer: S/. 350 (U$ 111)
Channel construction technician: S/. 350 (U$ 111)
Food: 30 workers x S/. 10.00 daily x 7 days = S/. 2,100 (U$ 667)
Total: S/. 15,500 (U$ 4,921)

DONATIONS NEEDED
For this deployment to help earthquake victims, Yanapasayki will need the support of donors to run this successful relief projects. Based on our previous relief efforts, we have compiled an example of the donations that may be needed to help these communities and the projected costs.
Possible donations:
· ·        $22 – Sponsor food for a volunteer worker for a week
· ·        $30 – sponsor 4 sacks of cement
· ·        $32 – sponsor 1 wheelbarrow
· ·        $33.90 – sponsor 10 gallons of fuel for the machinery
· ·        $111 – sponsor channel construction technician for a week
· ·        $220 – sponsor food for 10 volunteer workers for a week
· ·        $300 – sponsor 40 sacks of cement
· ·        $339 – sponsor 100 gallons of fuel for the machinery
· ·        $440 - sponsor food for 20 volunteer workers for a week
· ·        $3339 – sponsor 1000 gallons of fuel
· ·        $3651 – sponsor 500 sacks of cement
All funds donated to Yanapasayki go directly towards these efforts. Please give generously to support our volunteers and the people they assist.

DONATIONS RECEIVED
$1,500 - donated by Edwin Mitchell, expat list member who made the complementary assessments in the field with us and also offered to cooperate in the fund rising paperwork.

CONTACT INFO:
YCPA
Yanapasayki, Cuerpo Peruano de Ayuda
Phone : ++ (511) 4337981
yanapasayki@yahoo.es
Contact name: Aníbal Paredes

LINKS:
Terremotos en el Perú

Report update: Oct 3rd
Irrigation channel repair project
Phase 1: Ramadilla

The timeline proposed worked aproximately
as planned.

On monday 24th tools were purchased by HODR.

On tuesday 25th HODR tools from Lima and volunteers from Pisco moved meet and setted up the base at Concon at Jorge’s house.

On wednesday 26th the project started by digging to shape the channel but with some delays with the delivery of the trucks, the front loader, the wood, the mixer, etc. The cement was purchased by YCPA at Cañete.

On thursday 27th the work continued directed by the technician, the cement was delivered late, but even though the first part of the channel was finished, the volunteers worked until late at night.

On friday 28th the technician said he wouldn be available, another local technician assumed the direction and the work continued and advanced.

On saturday 29th the first technician returned but was dissmised by the local people that realized his job was not satisfactory. The Phase 1 work continued and at this time was about 80% done.

Water treatment plant issue.
YCPA members visited the site and assessed the situation of the water treatment plant. It was agreed with HODR to help to repair this plant that suplies drinking water to both towns but is not working for years due to the lack of funds to repair it.

On sunday 30th, the technician was available half day, so only half of the remaining work was done.

On monday Oct 1st, the project’s phase 1 was finished. The HODR volunteers stayed here one more night.

On tuesday Oct 2nd, the HODR volunteers moved back to Pisco. It was agreed the Phase 2 of the project to start on tuesday 9th due to the upcoming timeline that includes disassembling the framebox of the channel, watering the lands for two or three, the long weekend featuring holiday on monday, etc.

Report update: Sep 21st
Desicions, coordinations and timeline proposed

During this week after HODR confirmed their will to help on the irrigation channel repair project we held an intense exchange of e-mails with information, budget, framework, details about the project and participation of each party.

The project was defined to be done in two phases:
Phase 1 at Ramadilla 200 meters
Phase 2 at Concon 300 meters

Each party has been doing its corresponding duty working forward the project.

The project start date was defined to be on wednesday Sep 26th.

The general timeline was planned as follows:
Monday 24th HODR purchase tools and goods
Tuesday 25th HODR tools and volunteers move to Ramadilla. All goods and services provided by the other parties too.
Wednesday 26th, start the work and cement purchase by YCPA

Report update: Sep 14th
Call for help and response

One day after our last report we received a reply from Hand On Disaster Response (HODR), this group of volunteers leaded by Marc Young responded interested in help and went together with us one more time to assess the situation in the field at Ramadilla and Concon.

On friday Sep 14th, Luz Salas, the major of Herbay Alto; Jeff, a HODR spanish speaking volunteer, Marc, HODR operations director and Aníbal, YCPA president, meet at Cañete and went to the area where the irrigation channel is affected.

After the assessment Marc promised to study and consider during the weekend if they would participate in helping this community together with YCPA and others.

At first it seemed that the project appealed Marc’s feelings. The conditions for the project are favourable since the area is nicely located on the country, by the river, featuring: plenty of water, good climate, quiet, peaceful valley, friendly and hospitable people.

With Luz was agreed that five parties would form part of the project: HODR, YCPA, local community, Municipality of Lunahuaná, and Municipality of Cañete. Each party contributing with part of the costs goods and services needed for the irrigation channel repair project as follows:

HODR: Tools, volunteers and funds to purchase part of the cement
YCPA: Funds to purchase the cement, coordinations management, liasson and contacts facilitator.
Local community: volunteers and shelter for the HODR volunteers.
Municipality of Cañete: food for the volunteers, transport and cement mixer
Municipality of Lunahuaná: wood for the frameboxes, dump trucks and front loader to move materials needed