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From El Salvador, our correspondent Hugo Preza updates us on the situation in that country. teleSUR

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00:00Now we are going to witness and to listen to statements from witnesses and correspondents
00:05in Panama.
00:06Let's listen.
00:07They are recommending to the Salvadoran people to be prepared in the face of any circumstances.
00:15They are also releasing numbers in the case of an emergency, telephone numbers of the
00:21Civil Protection Authorities, 0800, and also there is a number of the Civil Protection
00:29Teams that they are releasing them so the people can communicate in the face of any emergency.
00:37132 and 213, those are the two numbers of emergencies, health care emergencies.
00:43Also there is the 911 that is the number of the police, 107 is the number of civilian society,
00:55and other amount of numbers of institutions that take care of the rights of the people.
01:04It is activated at this hour, the emergency system of the nation, Civil Protection is conducting
01:12surveillance and sharing images to inform that at this hour everything remains calm, that
01:20the coastline is in a safe condition now.
01:27The coast of La Libertad that are the closest ones to the Pacific coast, so we can move any
01:35time to be at any time to be at the coastline to inform from them, from there.
01:41May God help us not to suffer anything dramatic, but so far the civilian protection is activated
01:49at a national level and they are verifying beaches.
01:55For there to not be people to be exposed there is a warning as well for fishermen and women that
02:03should not be on the sea after this warning, this threat.
02:08Also we are listening to statements at this hour from our Salvadoran correspondent Hugo Bresa
02:15that is offering statements in the midst of this emergency.
02:18He says the following, I quote, this is touristic beaches and in those beaches we have plenty
02:26of a lot of small houses and this is something similar to Venezuela.
02:36There are similar road structures and they are like farms, like some farms and commercial facilities
02:51at the coast zone in the hotel zone in Costa del Sol and there is too much activity related
03:02to the coast, to the beach.
03:06There are a lot of increments in the waves just to take a lower around the coast and they
03:19are rolling all the things around to the sea.
03:24That's no kind of tsunami and compromising the life of the Salvador and the tourism that is
03:42is to be cautious and to accept the indications about the civil protection authorities given
03:53in to the citizens to save the lives of the population.
04:01We want to share with you, Roberto, with the audience about the magnitude of this earthquake.
04:08They say there are tsunami alerts not only for Salvador, Guatemala, and the U.S. Geological
04:21Service rate arrays the 7.2 magnitude of this earthquake, just giving evaluation to update it.
04:31There are reports of damage on the buildings of Panama, the Pena Nomé Cathedral, one of the most
04:42important structures of this.
04:44There are islands for Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico.
04:53There are red alert in the coast of this zone.
05:00The Chilean Service, another alert from the Geological Service of Chile and updating it about it in front
05:16one of the incoming data.
05:19This is being given was related to 272, 7.2 magnitude, and others say there are eight magnitude
05:31earthquakes that have stopped the score activities and commercial activities on the malls, on the other facilities around.
05:42We have seen images of the very known malls, the people exiting from this.
05:51The National System of Tsunami Monitoring Service that say there's no alert in front of a tsunami in Costa Rica.
06:10Costa Rica announced that it's not under an alert for a tsunami in front of this 7.2 earthquake.
06:31South American country that is not registering the tsunami alert in Costa Rica.
06:41Now Costa Rica is announcing that it's NORA doesn't have the alert.
06:50National System of Tsunami Monitoring Service, UNA-UCR, declares that there is no danger of tsunami
07:05for Costa Rica in front of the Panama Sismic Movement registered on this Friday in 7.2.
07:170.6 magnitude.
07:22Now it's registered unofficial.
07:25There's no an alert for tsunami.
07:30We share with you this information, Roberto.
07:32We keep updating an alert because this is from the Pacific center of tsunami alerts.
07:44There's a border between El Salvador and Panama and it's very close to have an alert for tsunami at the
08:02local time, the 12 o'clock.
08:05And it's practical in one hour and a half to have this alert for a tsunami.
08:17The authorities and elements from civil protections are displacing now the territory to prevent these defects of this event.
08:31And this zone is very, very, very occupied by the tourists because they have a lot of movement by tourism.
08:45The observatory from El Salvador hasn't yet reported any other alert, but this morning they said this is the first
09:05order.
09:05We are waiting for more information annotated and it is waited by any other movement in the quotes in this
09:19moderate tsunami alert.
09:23And the authorities are on charge of see if this on the movement in the sea.
09:34It's just like that information, Roberto, we keep on the Salvador.
09:39We continue to give in the information to give the information from the Metro in Panama, the subway service.
09:50The massive service is not at all under the street is in the majority superficial.
10:07A six-minute movement of 7.2 reports the authorities of Panama.
10:18And in Penonome y en Ecocle, we have both the President of Panama declared the alert
10:31and the call for the call to the people after this six-minute movement.
10:45We have other, we have other co-responder, Andrea, to have this.
10:52Thank you, Evelyn.
10:55Thank you, Evelyn.
10:55We have not only the alert for Guatemala, El Salvador, and that was just made by Columbia,
11:11the alert of tsunami in these earthquakes of 7.2 magnitude earthquake.
11:19And we have other aftershocks announced by the National System of the Rigs of Panama.
11:35Our partner, Roberto, is giving him information.
11:39What more do you have about the situation in El Salvador and Panama?
11:46And El Salvador extended this alert of this earthquake in Panama?
11:54Yes.
11:55You know, there is not another activity canceled by this in El Salvador, but just emitted by the Ministry of
12:07the Environment.
12:16This is a very small country.
12:22This is a very small country.
12:23Basically, San Salvador and the codes.
12:26We are in 25 minutes around.
12:34They are keeping the inspections related to this alert, taking action, the prevention actions, just to add the people from
12:49some places in case it's needed.
12:54The only thing that we have is in front of the seismic event, the authorities especially are monitoring these systems,
13:10these earthquakes monitoring systems.
13:15They have been emit an alert just to be in front of the alert in a possible tsunami alert, waiting
13:32for the half past two.
13:36That's the time, that's the time, that's the time, that's the time, the 2.30 is waiting for the possible
13:42tsunami at the coast of El Salvador.
13:45And we are monitoring the environment ministry and all the national systems of monitoring for the earthquakes just to guarantee
14:02the security for the people in front of a tsunami that is passing up now.
14:13So, we have regressed another question from November 2 UN.

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