Videopodcast ‘Let’s see if I came upon’ with Miguel Ángel Oliver: Earthquakes for the poor, earthquakes for the richNIUS
The earthquake in Turkey and Syria leaves a path of dying among the many humblest lessons and confirms the rule that the higher the poverty, the higher the devastationBoth nations apply worldwide anti-seismic requirements, however their authoritarian regimes make them inefficient and depart the inhabitants unprotectedSpain up to date its earthquake-resistant measures after the Lorca earthquake, which in 2011 killed 9 individuals and prompted critical property injury
To dwell on high of this tectonic juicer is to have an excellent probability of struggling a devastating occasion in some unspecified time in the future, though it’s true that seismic “moments”, like volcanic ones, can final for hundreds of years. The identical is true of Californians, who dwell fortunately on the San Andreas fault. Thousands of them died in 1906 when town of San Francisco was struck by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake, much like the Anatolian one. However, the anti-seismic measures applied within the United States, Japan or Europe are removed from the imprecise rules of poor and autocratic nations. Some authors have not too long ago denounced the direct relationship that exists between democracy, authoritarianism, and their trustworthy companions, wealth and poverty, with the destruction and dying of hundreds of individuals.
An equation that might not stop almost 20,000 individuals from dying within the horrible earthquake in Japan in 2011. In any case, a lot lower than these attributable to a very powerful seismic disaster of contemporary occasions, the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, with extra of 200,000 fatalities. In Let’s see if I’ve came upon, the video podcast carried out in Nius by Miguel Ángel Oliver, we’ll analyze these points on this chapter, we’ll evaluate the historical past of probably the most devastating occasions and we’ll analyze the probabilities that engineering has to avoid wasting hundreds of lives with anti-seismic options , democracy and cash. We are accompanied on this journey via horror and hope by the director of the National Seismic Network, Juan Vicente Cantavella, and Carles Romea, director of the grasp’s diploma in buildings taught, in affiliation with the Public University of Barcelona, by the Zigurat Institute of Technology