[Reader-list] Haitian Earthquake: Made In The USA

[A. Mani]

See http://www.countercurrents.org/rall160110.htm

The same 7.0 tremor hitting San Francisco wouldn't kill nearly as many
people as in Port-au-Prince.

"Looking at the pictures, essentially it looks as if (the buildings
are of) breezeblock or cinderblock construction, and what you need in
an earthquake zone is metal bars that connect the blocks so that they
stay together when they get shaken," notes Sandy Steacey, director of
the Environmental Science Research Institute at the University of
Ulster in Northern Ireland. "In a wealthy country with good seismic
building codes that are enforced, you would have some damage, but not
very much."

When a pile of cinderblocks falls on you, your odds of survival are
long. Even if you miraculously survive, a poor country like Haiti
doesn't have the equipment, communications infrastructure or emergency
service personnel to pull you out of the rubble in time. And if your
neighbors get you out, there's no ambulance to take you to the
hospital--or doctor to treat you once you get there.

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A. Mani


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