Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the buy-local movement, said Yonkers, is our nation's deep reliance on an industrial agricultural system, and a population accustomed to having all types of food available at all times, no matter what the season.
Its deadliness was linked, among other things, to the weakness of buildings, the depth of the quake, the density of population, the fault and soil types, and the intensity of the shaking.
Although people in every population come in all shapes and sizes, body types and physiological characteristics follow a Gaussian distribution curve as a result of evolutionary adaptations by our ancestors to extremely varied environmental challenges.