Experts dispatched urgently for landslide, forest helicopter on standby,
The Korea Forest Service issued a landslide crisis alert this morning after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit 4 kilometers southwest of Namsan, Buan, North Jeolla Province at 8:26:49 a.m. on the 12th. Yonhap News, ‘A landslide crisis alert has been issued in the North Jeolla Province where the earthquake occurred.’,
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, ‘The Korea Forest Service announced on the 12th that a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck 4 kilometers southwest of Namsan, Buan, and raised the landslide crisis alert level to ‘alert’ in the North Jeolla Province effective from 9 a.m. on the same day. As of now, there have been no reports of landslide damage, and abnormalities have not been detected on the ground subsidence measuring device installed in Buan. However, in order to prevent secondary damages from aftershocks, experts in landslide related fields from the National Institute of Forest Science and forestry, civil engineering, and geology have been urgently dispatched. Rapid on-site inspections are being conducted in landslide-prone areas and areas at risk of subsidence, and forest helicopters are on standby to support evacuations if damages occur.’,
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, ‘Jong-Soo Lee, the Korea Forest Service’s forest disaster control officer, stated, “We have launched urgent inspections to determine the occurrence of landslides caused by the earthquake” and added, “We are maintaining an emergency response system to prevent damage.”‘,’ MobileAdNew center ‘,