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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

Laviano, Province of Avellino, 1984 Monday 23rd November 2020 at 19:34 and 52.8 Civil protection, in the form of locally-based disaster response capacity, would begin to emerge in the following decade, which would end with the inauguration of the United Nations Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. The magnitude 6.9