My name: Esteban Ramos Jiménez
My position: Research Subdirector
My Organization: Civil Protection Institute of Mexico State
I participated in 1997 in course: Volcanology and Volcanic Sabo Engineering (March 23 to September 23, 1997).
Also in the Follow Up Seminar ″Volcanology and (Volcanic) Sabo Engineering″ at Lima Peru, November 20-26, 2005.
My main activities in last year (2005): Evaluate and give recommendations of different localities in Mexico State, about structural damage, slope slides, rocks fall, caves, irregular settlements, seismic risk, urban and field floods, collapses, slop slides, cracks, subsidense of terrain, monitoring of volcanic activity (Popocatepetl) and do two research papers (1). Slope slides occurred at communities of Amatepec, Coatepec Harinas, Ixtapan de La Sal and Tenancingo, Mexico State and (2). Evaluation of some flooding zones in territory of Mexico Sate.
Next, I include a photo of crack at Coatlinchan, Mexico, in municipality of Texcoco, which was originated on June 21, 2005.
Photo 1.
Part of the crack at Guadalupe Colony in community of Coatlinchan, municipality of Texcoco, Mexico, with a general strike N850E and longitude of about 800 meters. Fortunately, in this sector there are not houses