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Xanadu 2012: Haiti Quake 2010 |
Category: Articles 5 comments 17 Jan 2010 @ 13:23 by swanny @70.65.13.68 : OppsOpps that should be 14 Jan 2010 @ 00:08, by Ed Jonas Jan 13 2010 wed Canada afternoon winter I hope aid arrives quickly to Haiti and Port Au Prince , they only have 2 or 3 days to reach survivors buried under the rubble. Was the epicenter right at the capital? Perhaps the G20 could convene via teleconference and have emergency meeting and coordinate a global response. This is worse the the 2004 Tsunami it would appear. For more see link More Link = [link] Hmmm there's no spell check function on the Article Subject Feature? I suppose it was due for a sequel thread any way Threads that are to long get a bit tedious to read. Some days and some emergencies you just can't get much right aye? ed 17 Jan 2010 @ 13:37 by niwalen : Thanks Ed! Thank you for being so quick to rectify. 17 Jan 2010 @ 17:17 by swanny @70.65.13.68 : debate My compliments to the rescuers for debating the digging out of survivors to some degree. In such pulverized rubble and re bar and weights involved digging out is problematic in that one does not to kill oneself and or the victim in the process. Their training and their common sense working hand in hand. 18 Jan 2010 @ 09:24 by swanny @70.65.13.68 : Architecture The hidden irony in the Haiti crisis is that it would seem most of the people killed or effected were done so not so much by the earthquake itself but by the structures indicative of Western culture, the strong, tall, fixed, concrete buildings and houses and such . It would seem then that if this mostly agricultural society were living more towards an African or indigenous traditions of grass huts and simple structures then it would not have been so decimated. So thus it in a sense represents an inappropriate Western or modern infrastructure in terms of and for the environmental conditions and risks found and known thereof in the region or more so an unsustainable and inappropriate architecture for the environmental reality. 18 Jan 2010 @ 09:54 by swanny @70.65.13.68 : Rebuilding Well they may need to look at this and other such before they start designing and rebuilding as the deaths seem to have occurred more as a result of the building infrastructure and physicality then the earth quake itself. Earthquake Architecture link = [link] Other entries in Articles 1 Feb 2012 @ 18:53: sustainability 2012 31 Jan 2012 @ 16:56: Biome Community Harmony 2012 27 Jan 2012 @ 13:14: the $ problem 25 Jan 2012 @ 17:31: The Ocean of Pathos 2012 25 Jan 2012 @ 12:48: perspective 21 Jan 2012 @ 15:21: Humanity Prayer 2012 14 Jan 2012 @ 16:46: about love 2012 14 Jan 2012 @ 02:52: Modern Atlas 2012 13 Jan 2012 @ 23:21: law marridge and blessing 13 Jan 2012 @ 01:31: Internet Addiction 2012
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