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Haiti-Earthquake: For when would we have strong measures to deal with seismic vulnerability?

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Progress has been made. There are many more skills. Technical structures have been set up but not strengthened. There is awareness of seismic threats. But adequate preparations, in terms of relevant responses to new earthquakes, are lacking. Awareness exists, but institutional mobilization is slow to become a reality in people’s lives.

Social housing should be a national emergency. Communities should have technical means to regulate construction. It is also important to update the construction guide, implemented in 2012 by the Ministry of public works. This is what the platform Group for support of returnees and refugees (Garr) calls for, on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of 12 January 2010.

7 years later, communities in Haiti have not yet adopted strong provisions to deal with seismic vulnerability. Many citizens, although well imbued with seismic threats, tend to resume to bad habits, using unreliable materials in their constructions.

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Hazards Earthquake
Themes Disaster risk management Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region Haiti

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