WSJ: Why bigger quake sows less damage

• Date:1 Mar 2010
• Source(s):Wall Street Journal Digital Network (WSJ)

The Wall Street Journal's Gautam Naik reports on the massive earthquake that hit Chile last weekend and asks why it caused less destruction than the less powerful Jan 12 earthquake in Haiti.

"Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings kill people" says David Wald of the National Earthquake Information Center of the USGS.

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