• tallwookie@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    to a certain extent it's a failure of government - yes, a natural disaster is what it is, but in some countries that suffer earthquakes very few deaths are attributed to earthquakes (Japan for example).

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      1 year ago

      No no, not to a certain extent chile is a countrly like the ones you describe, and like, life continues as normal as soon as the quake stops usually with quakes in the lower 6 here.

      obviously it will not be the same based on depth and kind of terrain, but still, people shouldn't die for a quake like this, like almost at all.

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        1 year ago

        Chile's geography is far more mountainous and far fewer folks perish in earthquakes - their civil construction is lightyears ahead of Afghanistan & a large part of that is due to a relatively stable government (even when the dictator was ruling, that was still true).