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In February 2011, almost 200 people died when a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand.
As the anniversary of that earthquake approaches on March 11, Japanese researchers predicted in January 2012 that another major earthquake will strike the southern Kanto region, including Tokyo, by 2016 with 70% probability.
From Fukushima to DisarmamentSYDNEY – Months after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima compounds the humanitarian tragedy and impedes recovery.
At Fukushima, a perfect storm – a massive earthquake and tsunami, multiple vulnerable coastal reactors with spent-fuel ponds in the same buildings, inadequate barriers, loss of power, and back-up generators situated too low – may have seemed a remote possibility.
No nuclear reactors are designed to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.0.
Such outcomes are at least as plausible or likely – if not more so – than a massive earthquake and tsunami causing widespread damage to four Japanese nuclear reactors and their adjacent spent-fuel ponds.
NEW YORK – When parts of Japan were devastated recently by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, news of the human toll was quickly overshadowed by global fears of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant.
Foreign Minister Mukherjee was treated rudely on his recent visit, with Premier Wen Jiabao cancelling a previously-scheduled appointment and the Governor of Sichuan Province failing to show up to receive a donation of Indian humanitarian aid for China’s earthquake victims.
There are many reasons for this political earthquake, but the biggest are the enduring misery of depressed living standards, double-digit unemployment rates, and diminished hopes for the future.
Reconstructing HaitiNEW YORK – The horrors of Haiti’s earthquake continue to unfold.
Haiti’s economy worked badly in the past, and was still reeling from four hurricanes in 2008 when the earthquake struck.
Haiti ’s infrastructure was meager before the earthquake (hence the shocking mortality rate), and most of that is now rubble.
Even if this was due to temporary factors, including supply disruptions from the Japanese earthquake, labor and housing markets are still on the ropes in the US and some parts of Europe.
Indeed, Chinese scientists blamed the massive 2008 earthquake that struck the Tibetan plateau’s eastern rim, killing 87,000 people, on the newly constructed Zipingpu Dam, located next to a seismic fault.
At the same time, Japan’s trifecta of calamities – the massive earthquake, devastating tsunami, and paralyzing nuclear disaster – have gutted consumer confidence and disrupted cross-border production chains (especially in technology and car factories).
Similar lessons were learned with respect to global supply chains, following the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan in 2011.
He had, after all, first been assigned to Yugoslavia in 1963, and become known as “Lawrence of Macedonia” for his relief work after the Skopje earthquake in August of that year.
An earthquake that devastates Pakistan garners fewer headlines, so the developed world gives a lot less.
Fukushima and Derivatives MeltdownsCAMBRIDGE – Financial commentators have likened Japan’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe to derivatives’ role in the 2008 financial meltdown.
For Fukushima-type risks, analysts are already discussing how nuclear plants can be designed and built to contain earthquake and tsunami risks via passive cooling.
The pain and suffering arising from last year’s earthquake was already enormous, and has since been compounded by Hurricane Tomas and an outbreak of cholera.
In the camps where an estimated 1.3 million took refuge after this year’s earthquake, ironically, incidence is relatively low.
Then, as Chinese were wondering why 2008, a year of supposed good fortune marked by the lucky number eight, had started with so much misfortune, a deadly earthquake struck Sichuan province, killing 80,000 people and leaving millions homeless.
Nor should it forget China’s fierce display of nationalism in response to Western protests of the Olympic touch relay, the extraordinary patriotism that swept the country in response to the Sichuan earthquake, and the national pride evinced by the Olympic Games.
In the US, most people still do not have flood or earthquake insurance.
In California, one of the world’s most unstable geological regions, only one in six homeowners buys earthquake insurance.
The earthquake disrupted critical sections of Japan’s electricity grid, including the power supply needed to cool the spent fuel at Fukushima, while the tsunami disabled back-up generators at the plant, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine in 1986.
The outcome will certainly reflect what was learned from last year’s earthquake and tsunami, and seek to encourage deeper political and economic commitment to disaster-risk reduction and resilience worldwide.
After Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake in 2010, the country was dubbed “the republic of NGOs.”
Even the recent earthquake in Sichuan revealed how Chinese politics are changing.
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