Posts tagged ‘chile’
Chile’s earthquake
February 27th, 2010 at 9:59 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m not surprised that—so far, at least—the death toll from Chile’s earthquake is so low compared to Haiti’s, despite the much stronger quake. I was trained as a structural engineer, and my department was loaded with graduate students from South America. Latin American countries tend to take earthquakes very seriously, and their engineers are highly…




