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Scoop Coverage: Haiti Earthquake Response

Friday, 15 January 2010, 9:43 am
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Scoop Coverage: Haiti Earthquake Response

Science Media Centre: Chaos In Haiti Following Earthquake

Haitians are having to fend for themselves in the absence of a coherent disaster response plan following the magnitude 7 earthquake that hit the impoverished nation. Scientists contacted by our colleagues at the Science Media Centres in Australia and the United Kingdom have pointed out the immediate and long term challenges the citizens of Haiti face in their efforts to recover from the disaster. More>>

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Background: Scientists On Haiti's Devastating Earthquake

Sciblogs' Daniel Collins explores the disaster response scenarios for large-scale disasters such as that witnessed in Haiti.

Prof Roger Searle from the Earth Sciences Department at Durham University said:

"This quake was magnitude 7, equivalent to the energy release of about half a megaton of TNT. Earthquakes of this size can cause relatively slight damage in well-designed and constructed buildings, but considerable destruction in poor ones. More>>

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