The director of the Centre for Geodesy and Geodynamics (CGG), Dodo Danasabe, has told residents of the Mpape community in the Federal Capital Territory not to be alarmed as a result of the earth tremor that occurred on Monday.
He said this while speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief programme on Thursday.
“The residents of Mpape should not panic. It’s not something they should get worried about because the information we’re hearing is that residents of Mpape have started relocating. It hasn’t gotten to that extent,” Danasabe said.
He further urged residents not to be scared of a recurrence as a result of the precautions that the CGG have put in place.
“There is no cause for alarm in the sense that the agency has established equipment that enables us to carry out the measurement.
“But don’t forget that earthquake is a natural phenomenon which cannot be stopped by human beings, but what we can do is to carry to our measurement so that we can issue a warning,” the geologist added.
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As opposed to the speculation around the cause of the earth’s tremor, the CGG Director clarified that the earth’s tremor was not a result of human factors but as a result of faults in the environment.
“From what we have discovered, it is not as a result of the mining activities and the blasting that people are thinking.
“We have come to conclude that based on the historical geographical investigation that has been carried out, there is a fault that comes from Ifewara in Osun state that extends up to Zingeru and from Zingeru to Abuja,” Danasabe added.
Speaking on further preventive measures he said, “We’re coming up with a building code that enables those carrying out construction to embed it when they are carrying out construction in those areas because it is a weak zone.”
He referred to the earth tremor that happened in September 2018 as a driving force to the investigations and research that the CGG have made.
He assured the citizens that the CGG alongside other organisations are actively working out measures to ensure that the citizens are well informed of any coming disaster early.
“In the coming days, we intend to set up an episodic point where we’ll establish different monitoring points to take data from the ground and our satellites so we can ascertain what is happening and give an early warning,” he stated.
