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05 Mar 2010, 3:24 pm

raisedbyignorance wrote:
Okay, so now that we know that earthquake can happen ANYWHERE, I dont see why more nations aren't making a bigger effort to earthquake proof their buildings. Japan and Chile have building restrictions for this because they're so earthquake prone, but now with big earthquakes happening in unusual places like China and Haiti, you'd think people would start paying attention now.



Costs money. People don't like to part with money - especially if they think it might not happen to them or might not happen for 100 years (when it's someone else's problem).



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05 Mar 2010, 3:25 pm

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Chile also has a top-notch emergency management/response system, which is why only 200-300 people have died so far.


Chile is not Haiti.

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True, Chile is per capita the wealthiest country in Latin America, and Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. However I think many First World cities would be reduced to piles of rubble if hit by an 8.8 earthquake. I think the reasons why Chile has coped so much better than Haiti with an earthquake 500 times as powerful as that which hit Haiti are essentially the same ones why Chile is so much more prosperous than Haiti.



it also has to do with where the respective quakes hit and the local geology....



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16 Mar 2011, 10:59 pm

yeah was so good the management of the catastrophe that many people died by the tsunami,because the president that was before the current one said that was not alert of tsunami, even when from the USGS get the alert, noone in the emergency office understanded or knew english language so ignored the call and the people returned to the house thinking that the president message was true but was not.

even is a legal action to the President MS Bachelet in Chile by this .

so that time nothing worked

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by the way i survived