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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (72639)	2/27/2010 3:09:25 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

On the news I heard the the tsunami is travelling with the speed of a jetliner. Oooh! What they don't say is that the speed is unrelated to the size of the quake. The first three waves at the Chathams were about 30 cm high! Scary stuff.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (72639)	2/27/2010 11:01:12 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

>>government departments up and down NZ who need to justify their existence<< Sounds like Chile is another suffocating nanny state like New Zealand... ;) Chile was ready for quake, Haiti wasn't news.yahoo.com Sinclair said he has architect colleagues in Chile who have built thousands of low-income housing structures to be earthquake resistant. In Haiti, by contrast, there is no building code. Patrick Midy, a leading Haitian architect, said he knew of only three earthquake-resistant buildings in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. Sinclair's San Francisco-based organization received 400 requests for help the day after the Haiti quake but he said it had yet to receive a single request for help for Chile. "On a per-capita basis, Chile has more world-renowned seismologists and earthquake engineers than anywhere else," said Brian E. Tucker, president of GeoHazards International, a nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, California. Their advice is heeded by the government in Latin America's wealthiest nation, getting built not just into architects' blueprints and building codes but also into government contingency planning.