Earthquake devastation linked to corruption

[maricard]

Earthquakes don’t kill. Unsafe structures do. That’s one lesson Filipinos can draw from the recent magnitude-7 quake that devastated Haiti.

A recent study at Columbia University found that the Philippines has the biggest number of schoolchildren at risk from earthquakes.

According to the study, the Philippines has 15.6 million school-age children in earthquake zones, the highest exposure it cited. I doubt the Department of Education is even aware of this.

[PBR]

Metro Manila was hit by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake just this noon at 1:29pm. I felt it personally, I got scared and felt dizzy. Hope this incidents won't happen again. The government should conduct precautionary measures about the right things to do when this phenomena happens again.

[insurectus]

unya i link na pod ni nila ang quake sa 13 days pagka daog ni pacman

[hofelina]

during my grade school, we took earthquake and fire drill regularly ( folks I´m 59) I think this is necessary for survival!