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India’s Building Code Has a Blind Spot for a Whole Category of Emissions

Disaster in Java: Why Are Shallow Earthquakes More Destructive?

People gather near a collapsed building after a massive earthquake in Imphal on January 4, 2016. Credit: PTI

No Lessons Learnt From Quakes in India’s Northeast

The region under threat is built on the world’s largest river delta, and water is everywhere. Widespread poverty, soft sediments and rapidly multiplying infrastructure including bridges like this one near the southern city of Khulna make the region exquisitely vulnerable to earthquakes. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

A Giant Quake May Be Lurking Under Bangladesh and Beyond

A UK Aid worker inspecting a collapsed structure in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake in early 2015. Credit: dfid/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Lessons to India From Chile: ‘Buildings Kill People, Not Earthquakes ‘