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Six years after Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-seven earthquake, the government seismologist who predicted it warns little has been done to protect people in the likely event of a repeat disaster, reports Agence France Presse. 'There has been a construction code in Haiti since 2012, but who is in charge of enforcing it?' said Claude Prepetit, the chief seismologist at the Bureau of Mines...
In the past five years, the South American country of Chile has had three huge earthquakes with a magnitude greater than eight, reports AFP. But it is also resilient, thanks largely to its demanding building code. The standard is that buildings must save lives during an earthquake by remaining standing...
The United Nations' new weather chief said Friday his priority was to improve early warning systems to predict increasing natural disasters sparked by climate change, reports Agence France Presse. Finn Petteri Taalas, the new head of the World Meteorological Organization said, 'We have to find more resources for improving global early warning and climate adaptation capacity,'...
At least 800 people have died in a major heatwave that has swept across India. 'The state government has taken up education programmes through television and other media to tell people not to venture into the outside without a cap, to drink water and other measures,' said P. Tulsi Rani, special commissioner for disaster management in the state...
Officials said the move would give authorities time to review building standards in the wake of a 7.8-magnitude quake, reports Agence France-Presse. 'We need to revisit our building norms and standards and this pause will give us that time,' said Purna Chandra Bhattarai, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development...
Among the man-made factors highlighted are the use of low resistance building materials and people in flood-prone villages not wanting to move for fear of land grabs. The director of the Malawi Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services told AFP that farmers, fishermen and others often do not take prevention messages seriously, building homes in riverbeds and other low-lying areas...
The space agency, like other government facilities that find themselves on the coast, are trying to make incremental changes over the coming decades, Russell De Young of the NASA science directorate at Langley told AFP...
Senegal's home minister Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo said that more nationwide coordination was needed for civil protection: 'We are thinking of setting up an office to provide more resources but we think we already have the means to put in place a national plan that can coordinate all government actions in the context of disaster risk management'...
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