There was a team of firefighters from Italy whose expertise was in earthquake work.
Children practise ducking under the desk in earthquake drills throughout their school years.
Meanwhile, Herbie Hamrol works in his Daly City supermarket, and takes part in earthquake commemorations as and when they happen.
Yao also continues to work with the Yao Ming Foundation building schools in earthquake-affected regions in Sichuan and other provinces in China.
Its charitable arm also runs schools and medical clinics and played an important role in earthquake relief efforts in Kashmir in 2005.
Schools and office workers regularly take part in earthquake drills, and waiting for "the big one" is deeply engrained in the national psyche.
Soon, emergency managers will soon be able to descend into the chaos and confusion of post-disaster settings like those that prevailed in earthquake-ravaged Haiti last year equipped with reliable cell-phone service.
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"The public can of course continue to express scepticism, but we cannot because give up helping compatriots in earthquake-stricken areas of Lushan because of distrust of an organisation, " Beijing Youth Daily commentator Shu Shengxiang adds.
The confrontation of ideas at these workshops has definitively advanced the discipline to a level that archaeoseismological evidence is now considered as a complementary source of earthquake data in the whole range of approaches in earthquake science.
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Gian Michele Calvi, an expert in earthquake engineering who is one of the indicted seven, says the commission recognised that L'Aquila is in a highly seismic zone, and that a powerful earthquake could therefore happen at any time.
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The international geosciences programme (IGCP) project 567 on earthquake archaeology is intended to demonstrate that archaeological evidence can make a valuable contribution to long-term seismic-hazard assessments in earthquake-prone regions where there is a long and lasting cultural heritage.
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It has been used to coordinate requests for relief efforts, track victims in camps and shelters, and coordinate volunteers in the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, the 2006 mud slide in the Philippines, the 2007 earthquake in Peru and the 2008 earthquake in China.
Nine years ago, 30, 000 people died in an earthquake in Bam in southeastern Kerman province.
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In 1970, tens of thousands of people died in an earthquake in Peru.
In 1531, between 20, 000 and 30, 000 people died in an earthquake in Lisbon.
He said since Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant was badly damaged in an earthquake and tsunami in March, countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Italy were reducing their commitment to nuclear energy.
When Wolfowitz asked if he had any family, he said that his wife had been killed in the earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999 and that her parents were bringing up his only child, a son, whom he rarely saw.
He predicted that the port, which was damaged in the earthquake, would be open "in some capacity" by the end of the week.
In 2003, an earthquake in the city of Bam left more than 25, 000 people dead.
In the California Northridge earthquake in 1994, PV kept some communications links open.
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By highlighting how their ancestors coped with earthquakes, archaeoseismology should play a key role in fostering better earthquake preparedness in modern communities that are equally threatened.
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Since joining CNN in 1996, he has covered the death of Princess Diana in 1997, NATO air strikes on Kosovo in 1998, the earthquake in Turkey in 1999 and the World Cup soccer championships, among other stories.
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The supply of NAND flash memory chips is likely to tighten in the wake of the earthquake in Japan, DigiTimes reports this morning.
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Safety in schools has been a major public concern in China since a devastating earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008 killed tens of thousands of people.
In some ways this was similar to the way in which Ushahidi, a non-profit website, gathers information in situations such as the earthquake in Haiti and the terrorist bombings in Mumbai.
Dozens of buildings collapsed in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Van province in Turkey.
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By combining different techniques this church stood strong in the earthquake of Intensity 7.
Prof Redmond gave an example of treatment being administered in Haiti following an earthquake there in 2010.
Many other women in Haiti like Vilmeney say they also lost their livelihoods in the earthquake and are still struggling.
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