The metropolitan area of Caracas, despite the controlled evictions made after 2010

in high-risk areas, remains vulnerable to floods, landslides and landslides that may
occur there. And considering this, the population that inhabits these sectors does
not seem to care about the danger that this represents.

A very important point of which spoke in this talk is the poor culture that the
Venezuelan population has to prevent or attack an emergency caused by a
disaster, which is exemplified by reference to two countries that have suffered a
disaster such as Chile. and Haiti, which in 2010 were affected by two high
magnitude earthquakes, where in Chile the energy released was 500 times more
energy than that released in Haiti. However, the number of Chilean victims was
600 and of Haitians it was 230,000. Professor Cilento noted that "Chileans were
prepared for earthquakes, Haitians were not. This is because the culture of both
has developed differently. Chile, being the area where the largest earthquakes
occur, is obliged to prepare, unlike Haiti that had not experienced a seismic
movement for 150 years until 2010. We are in an intermediate situation between
both countries, but Our seismic culture does not exist either. Therefore, we are
better than the Haitians but very far from the Chileans because our earthquakes
occur every 30 years. "
Based on these events and the conviction that other more severe earthquakes will
occur in Venezuelan territory, as well as any type of disaster such as floods.
Professor Alfredo Cilento estimates that between 40 and 60 percent of the
population living in the metropolitan area in general, lives in a highly dangerous
area during the rainy season, leading to a high-scale disaster. But what also
increases the damage is population growth; the poor disposition of services such
as solid waste, sewage and farm buildings on eroded and unstable soils or on the
margin of streams.