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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could the high death toll in Amatrice have been avoided today?[/quote] Possibly. 6.2 is not that big; earthquake resistant building, for example, would help. I have not really looked at anything related to that earthquake (I had medical tests the AM, and just finished that up). A good way to look at this is to go to 2010. Two earthquakes, a 7.1 in Haiti, and an 8.8 in Chile occurred 6 weeks apart. The Chilean event was about 100x bigger than the Haiti earthquake, but had very few casualties. Why? Building codes. By comparison, the smaller Haitian earthquake hit in a poor city with no building codes; possibly over 200,000 people were killed. Building codes and code enforcement matter. [/quote]
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