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Lessons from the Haiti earthquake

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  • Roger Bilham

    (University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0399, USA. roger.bilham@colorado.edu)

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Roger Bilham, one of the first seismologists to visit Haiti after last month's earthquake, calls for UN enforcement of resistant construction in cities with a history of violent tremors.

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  • Roger Bilham, 2010. "Lessons from the Haiti earthquake," Nature, Nature, vol. 463(7283), pages 878-879, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:463:y:2010:i:7283:d:10.1038_463878a
    DOI: 10.1038/463878a
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