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'I think the entire city of Brisbane, the Ipswich region and most of the south east, needs to prepare ourselves for enormous disruption,' said Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, after weeks of rain and flooding, reports the Christian Science Monitor...
Matthew Kahn, economics professor at UCLA, takes a look at the recently released 'Natural hazards, unnatural disasters' and debates that a combination of migration and increasing income will help millions of people in the developing world cope with climate change induced natural disaster risk...
'The mudslide was caused by geology, but it was worsened by deforestation,' said Dr Qi Long in a report by Peter Ford for the Christian Science Monitor, on the Zhouqu County mudslide that killed over 1000 people last weekend...
Most houses were damaged by the recent earthquake north of Padang, in the village of Mangopo, however there were no victims. 'Everyone reacted very quickly because of the training and that's why no one died in that village' said Malka Older of Mercy Corps Indonesia...
Earthquake experts say the collapsed schools may be a sign of poor construction despite adequate building codes....
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