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WSJ: Why bigger quake sows less damage

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Photo of the devastation caused by the earthquake in Chile 28 Feb 2010 by Flickr user Felipe Ovalle, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic, http://www.flickr.com/photos/nkesmeping/4396410357/in/set-721576234057
Photo of the devastation caused by the earthquake in Chile 28 Feb 2010 by Flickr user Felipe Ovalle, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic, http://www.flickr.com/photos/nkesmeping/4396410357/in/set-721576234057

The Wall Street Journal's Gautam Naik reports on the massive earthquake that hit Chile last weekend and asks why it caused less destruction than the less powerful Jan 12 earthquake in Haiti.

"Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings kill people" says David Wald of the National Earthquake Information Center of the USGS.

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Hazards Earthquake Tsunami
Themes Governance Disaster risk management Structural safety Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region Chile Haiti Japan
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