Looming Disaster
NY TIMES / NY TIMES AND IRAN NEWS DIGEST
25-Feb-2010 (one comment)

In Tehran, Iran’s capital, Dr. Bilham has calculated that one million people could die in a predicted quake similar in intensity to the one in Haiti, which the Haitian government estimates killed 230,000. (Some Iranian geologists have pressed their government for decades to move the capital because of the nest of surrounding geologic faults.)

Peter Yanev, who has advised the World Bank and the insurance industry on earthquake engineering and is the author of “Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country,” noted that in Turkey and other developing countries, even when someone with an engineering degree was involved, that was no guarantee of safe construction because there was little specialized training or licensing.

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IRAN: Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones

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IND: Combining the regime’s corruption and shoddy construction standards with the fact that so much of Iran is in earthquake zones guarantees disaster for the Iranian people at some point in the future. The regime needs to take a proactive approach to prevent a future catastrophe – starting with relocating Iran’s capital from Tehran to somewhere safer and reinforcing substandard buildings.

Those mapped here have more than one million people and large districts of poorly constructed housing typical of poverty-stricken cities. Even moderate shaking in these places could result in the destruction of many buildings..



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