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What Did Chile Do To Prepare For Earthquakes?
ummm i have to do a project on the chile earthquake 2010 and one of the things i have to do is how chile prepared and how they can be better prepared
so any help would be cool
thanks : )
Several factors have to be considered first. Chile has always been in a zone of tectonic movement for millennia. The entire country is on a fault line called "The Ring of Fire." Therefore before concrete and steel were invented. the people were quite aware of the earth shaking and causing great damage. As modern times came about, the government of Chile saw to it that their structures would give some protection from collapsing buildings and major damage through government laws in the infrastructure.
On the other hand, this section of South America will and has severe quakes on the magnitude of 6.5 to 9.0 which cause serious damage no matter how well a structure is built. Also, let's not forget that Mother Nature will always win against us humans. Now getting back to Chiles preparedness.
Let's compare Chile's earthquake to the one that happened in Haiti for example. (And this is an excellent comparison.) There’s a lot of factors—as well as disparities—in the two countries that place Chile’s preparedness in the A-list category (money, education, plans, etc.). Nonetheless, Chile’s quake is a testament to the science—and art—of emergency management that wherever the four phases of planning, response, recovery and mitigation are employed, that natural disasters—though unstoppable—are becoming increasingly more survivable.
The Chile quake registered 500 times stronger than Haiti, was 22 miles under ground and spread over a predominantly agricultural area.
The Haiti quake registered 7.0, but was shallower, at only six miles under ground and much closer to populated areas. Building codes and practices in Chile during the past 20 years have been strictly enforced with a heavy focus on earthquake survivability. Since the mid-1970s, Chile has had 13 quakes of magnitude 7.7 or higher. Most of the poorly constructed edifices already have crumbled in past quakes. Since 1977, emergency managers in Chile have been overseeing Operacion Deyse, supporting earthquake drills three times each year in Chilean schools. All school children, as well as private and public sector employees, are taught, “Drop, cover, hold on.” When an earthquake hits, drop to the ground, get under a heavy desk, table, door frame or sit next to a bearing wall, cover your eyes and head with your arms and hold on until the shaking stops.
It’s simple emergency techniques (and sometimes large policy makers) like these that ensure protection of life and property. Unfortunately, Haiti had none of this: No preparedness initiatives, no money, little education and lack of a full-functioning society. As a result, it suffered in lives, property, infrastructure and government. The idiom of being a well-oiled machine undoubtedly rings true in a country that’s prepared for a disaster.
It must be understood, however, that when emergencies happen, there still will be loss of life and property, as well as injuries. However, how countries prepare, respond, recover and mitigate now and in the future determines survivability. Both Chile and Haiti are lessons learned.
I hope this will help you in your project.
Regards,
Warren
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Free #earthquake #preparedness checklist for back to school.
It would be interesting to know the methodology of this survey. What period did this survey cover? (Police corruption was particularly virulent during Jorge Hank's administration [2004–2007] and does not represent the last thirty years as a whole.) Also, if the respondents were self-selected (that is, if they volunteered to take the survey), the survey's data are specifically those of victims of bribery as found among blog-readers and so the survey’s conclusions represent neither the general population nor the ordinary tourist experience.
Whenever you pay cash to a traffic cop, you will be paying a bribe or an extortion. (The difference is that, if you offer the money, you are bribing the policeman; if he tells you to pay, he is extorting you.) The perpetrator of either action is punished with prison time under our Criminal Code, just as they are on your side of the border, so be very careful. Honesty is the better policy.
The normal procedure in Mexico is for the policeman to take a motorist who has committed a traffic infraction immediately to the nearest comandancia (police station), where the juez calificador (traffic-court judge) hears the case and assesses the fine. These judges work around the clock.
During Jorge Hank's administration, those judges were in on the scams. Fortunately this normal procedure does not need to be applied in Baja California anymore.
Any ordinary traffic or parking ticket issued in Tijuana or Rosarito can be paid by check to a post-office box in San Diego, just like you do in the U.S. You might also be able to pay the fine by credit/debit card on the spot if the cop has the right equipment with him. In either case you don't have to go to the comandancia and your payment won't go into the cop's pocket.
If you're guilty (and do remember our speed limits are posted in kilometers, not miles, per hour), this innovation will save you a lot of time. If you're innocent, you still have the right to speak with the juez calificador immediately. Whether guilty or innocent, don't give the cop any cash.
We do currently have one unusual problem, however. After-market tinted windows are forbidden in Tijuana: tinting film must be removed upon citation otherwise the vehicle will be impounded. A very poorly constructed ordinance, yes. It was rammed through by our current mayor in order to get Jorge Hank's thugs off the street (the political math being Ford Explorer + tinted windows = semiautomatic weapons inside) and the current mayor specifically asked the police not to enforce his ordinance whenever the vehicle bears gringo plates. But many of the police were hired in Hank's administration and they're none too happy that they can't shake tourists down like they used to. The mayor's mistake is the Hankistas' gain, so, if you have tinted windows, you'd better leave them NoB until the ordinance gets revised, which could be next year.
Those of us who have lived in Tijuana for a long time are uncomfortable talking about this: it's like talking about earthquake preparedness in Los Angeles. A fact of life, yes; a fact of everyday life, certainly not. And those of us who have lived on both sides of the border have reported more problems with San Diego sheriffs than they have with Tijuana cops. Believe what you like; at least down here you have a hotline. Anytime you have any sort of problem in Baja you can dial 078 from a phone down here to speak with a bilingual tourist ombudsman, around the clock and free of charge.
The Burden of Knowing, By Charles Hugh Smith
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