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Natural disasters: how can we improve? [25 May 2010] : In the News
UN chief visits Haiti camp
- Source: BBC News
15th March 2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has visited Haiti to witness the progress in aid distribution. Hundreds of thousands of people remain in urgent need.
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Haiti quake deaths were ‘avoidable’
- Source: BBC News
- 12th March 2010
Two months after more than 200,000 people died in the Haiti earthquake, there are questions about whether many of the deaths could have been avoided. A stronger earthquake in Chile killed a fraction of the numbers, and it is thought the quality of construction could have played a major role in each.
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Money hunt turns aid agencies into rivals in shaken Haiti
- Source: McClatchy
- 11th March 2010
The politics of aid has become even sharper following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that left more than 200,000 dead and toppled hundreds of thousands of buildings.
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Haiti earthquake: engineers work out how to rebuild capital to withstand future shocks
- Source: The Guardian
- 2nd March 2010
The international effort to rebuild Port-au-Prince will be the biggest civil engineering project in the Caribbean for the next decade. That is the stark view of experts who have studied the devastation inflicted on the Haitian capital last week and concluded that only a full-scale reconstruction of the city, to robust quake-proof standards, will prevent future catastrophes.
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How Architects Help in Haiti
- Source: Business Week
- 1st March 2010
Cameron Sinclair and his organization, Architecture for Humanity, are working to help communities rebuild in Haiti.
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Chile President Michelle Bachelet steps up quake rescue
- Source: BBC News
- 1st March 2010
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has announced emergency measures to deal with the destruction caused by Saturday's massive earthquake.
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A tale of two huge quakes, and why Haiti’s was worse
- Source: The Seattle Times
- 27th February 2010
Port au Prince, Haiti — The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month, yet the death toll in Haiti was magnitudes higher. The reasons are simple.
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Massive earthquake strikes Chile
- Source: BBC News
- 27th February 2010
A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 has hit central Chile, killing at least 64 people, ministers say. The quake struck at 0634 GMT about 115km (70 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 325km south-west of the capital, Santiago.
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