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LA Times (July 24)

2011/ 07/ 27 by jd in Global News

“Too many countries are playing Russian roulette when it comes to seismic risk.” It is “a human triumph of the first order” that so few buildings collapsed as a result of “Japan’s Sendai earthquake on March 11, which released 600 million times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb.” But many governments have yet to adopt Japan’s stringent building standards. In many earthquake prone countries, a similar quake could kill a million people. Seismic risk mitigation is “the greatest urban policy challenge the world confronts today.”

 

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