In California, Dr. Blakely worked on reconstruction projects in the San Francisco Bay Area after the earthquake of 1989 and the Oakland wildfires of 1991.
But an army spokesman told the BBC that people of the area will need help from national and international aid groups in the rehabilitation and reconstruction process in the weeks ahead.
Equally significantly, a different computer reconstruction shows that the upper jaw of 62000 does not match another famous fossil from the area, known as KMN-ER 1802.