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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Bilham, R. Lessons from the Haiti earthquake. Nature 463, 878–879 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463878a
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