Lessons from Haiti and Japan Earthquakes
Автор: IRIS Earthquake Science
Загружено: 2012-02-28
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IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer, Wayne Pennington, geophysicist (Michigan Technological University) speaks on:
"Scientific and Humanitarian Lessons from the Haiti and Japan Earthquakes"
at OMSI (http://www.omsi.edu/node/1007) Science Pub.
The January 2010 earthquake in Haiti was not particularly large. Magnitude 7 events happen dozens of times a year around the world. But this one killed a near-record number of people. What did scientists and the public know or not know about earthquake hazards in Haiti? Scientists knew that the area was likely to experience an earthquake of this size, but because such earthquakes had not occurred in Haiti for the past 240 years, public awareness was negligible. Building codes were non-existent, resulting in huge losses of life. On the other hand, the massive earthquake in Japan in March 2011 resulted in fewer deaths, while its tsunami wreaked widespread devastation.
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