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Lessons from the Haiti earthquake

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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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Figure 1: Deaths from earthquakes since 1900.
Figure 2: Earthquake history of the island of Hispaniola.

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  1. Roger Bilham is in the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0399, USA. roger.bilham@colorado.edu,

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