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Sep 7, 2007

Importance of community involvement on the road to school seismic safety

[...] “The question is why, again and again, even in industrialized nations with a
wealth of engineering expertise – schools collapse in earthquakes . . . Every that is
EVERY school should be inspected and where necessary reinforced. This is so
basic to risk mitigation in a seismically active area, it seems foolish to have to
write it down.” [...]

Posted by Marco Faggella at 9:03 AM
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