{"id":937,"date":"2004-12-03T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/earthquakes\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T00:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:33:59","slug":"earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Los terremotos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Los terremotos son los fen\u00f3menos m\u00e1s mortales de todos los desastres naturales. La mayor\u00eda de las muertes son causadas por el derrumbe de edificios o incendios.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

En 2003, aproximadamente 44.000 personas murieron a consecuencia de terremotos, casi todas ellas en un solo terremoto en Ir\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

Cada a\u00f1o ocurren varios millones de terremotos en el mundo. Sin embargo, muchos de esos temblores pasan desapercibidos porque ocurren en \u00e1reas remotas o son muy d\u00e9biles. En promedio, cada a\u00f1o hay 18 terremotos importantes y un gran terremoto.<\/p>\n

Los terremotos son m\u00e1s frecuentes cerca de grandes grietas en la corteza terrestre, conocidas como \u201cfallas\u201d. A menudo se producen en el sur de Europa, donde dos grandes placas de la corteza se desplazan una hacia la otra.<\/p>\n

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Imagen por sat\u00e9lite del terremoto de 1999 en Turqu\u00eda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los instrumentos de radar de los sat\u00e9lites ERS-2 y Envisat de la ESA permiten detectar los movimientos de la superficie y pueden medir ese movimiento con una precisi\u00f3n milim\u00e9trica.<\/p>\n

Asimismo, se puede utilizar el radar para elaborar mapas y evaluar los da\u00f1os causados a los edificios tanto de d\u00eda como de noche. Esto resulta sumamente \u00fatil para los equipos de rescate y recuperaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Todav\u00eda no contamos con un m\u00e9todo preciso para pronosticar terremotos. Sin embargo, los sat\u00e9lites de la ESA proporcionan informaci\u00f3n exacta que puede facilitar la tarea de los cient\u00edficos. Los datos recopilados a lo largo de muchos a\u00f1os ayudan a prever futuros terremotos y a descubrir fallas ocultas.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earthquakes are the deadliest of all natural disasters. Most deaths are caused by collapsing buildings or fires. Several million earthquakes occur in the world each year. However, many of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2004\/02\/bam_earthquake2\/17900457-2-eng-GB\/Bam_earthquake.jpg","esa_banner_description":"Bam earthquake","esa_banner_credit":"AP Photo \/Kamran Jebreili","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2004\/02\/Bam_earthquake2","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[42,10,59],"tags":[2],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth","category-learn","category-natural-disasters","tag-background-article"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}