O’Leary Fernando Gonzalez, director of the National Seismological Research Center (CENAIS, in Spanish), told Granma newspaper that the first step has been to locate the possible sites for the studies, based on geological work.

Only CENAIS experts and a Venezuelan specialist with extensive experience in the Caribbean and South America are involved in the project.

Gonzalez affirmed that as the work progresses, other scientists from Cuba and other countries will join the research.

He pointed out that the research began with the support of the Cuenca Resiliente project, implemented in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio for early warning against the risks of natural disasters.

It is a complex study that will take months and perhaps longer, the specialist warned.

It aims to know more precisely how dangerous the Pinar fault is and how much it threatens the communities, he pointed out.

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