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Deadly quakes in Japan and Ecuador spotlight need for rigorous structural safety standards – UN

Apr 29, 2022

Deadly quakes in Japan and Ecuador spotlight need for rigorous structural safety standards – UN
WFP - A collapsed roadway following the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the coast of Ecuador on 16 April 2016.

The Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) said today that the deaths in Ecuador and the dozens of victims in Japan spotlighted a basic fact about earthquakes; that buildings, and not the shake itself, claim most lives.

 

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