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These resources explore the economic, social and environmental dividends of investing in disaster risk reduction.
Words into Action
Implementation guides for the Sendai Framework
Learning from Past Disasters
The Izmit Earthquake occurred on 17 August 1999. The magnitude 7.4 earthquake, which lasted less than a minute, struck the Anatolian fault system with the epicentre at about 7 miles southeast of Izmit.
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