Washingtonpost.com article:
"We live on a planet of extremes and cataclysm. A year to the day before the Dec. 26 tsunami, whose death toll has surpassed 150,000, the Bam earthquake in Iran killed 46,000 people, injured 20,000 and left 60,000 homeless. In India the Gujarat earthquake of 2001 resulted in more than 20,000 deaths and 167,000 injuries. In 1998 Central America lost 10,000 lives to Hurricane Mitch. The 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China killed 250,000."
William Hooke chairs the Disaster Roundtable of the National Academies of Science-National Research Council. His prescription:
• Monitor,
• Warn,
• Prepare the public,
• Adopt less risky behavior, and
• Focus on social equity
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
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