Haitian earthquake

Although earthquake engineering has made a lot of progress, some areas of society have been surprisingly slow to implement proven measures. Many of the buildings that collapsed in the New Zealand earthquake in Eebruary, 2011, would have remained standing had they been reinforced to the recommended standard. They were not reinforced because of cost, but that cost was a small fraction of what it will now cost to rebuild. The January, 2010, Haitian earthquake was so deadly because there are no national huilding standards. The December, 2003,... 

Zook M, Graham M, Shelton T, Gorman S. (2010). Volimteered geographic information and crowdsourcing disaster relief A case study of the Haitian earthquake. World Medical and Health Policy, 2(2) 7-33. 

EFFICIENT FUNDS TRANSFER The Internet and cell phones can enhance the convenience and lower the cost of revenue collection, especially in small amounts. For example, after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, Mercy Corps transferred 40 automatically into each Haitian person s account, allowing him or her to buy food at local merchants. This was much more efficient than handing out cash or vouchers. 

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