All Blog Posts Tagged 'earthquake' (4)

Many earthquakes have occured. In MEDCs (more economically developed countries), they are better equipped to handle natural disasters; however, the poorer countries (LEDCs) are not. I wrote this article as if it were a year on from the 1995 Kobe earthquke to explain earthquakes and show how Japan…

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Is Chile another Haiti?: With natural disatsters increasing over the world, the question is whether it should have taken natural disasters to open the worlds eyes to suffering?



It has been over a months since the earthquake in Haiti. Thousands were killed, many injured and even dispossessed with no home or family. Mass looting occured and the fragile government was rendered useless to its own… Continue

We have all heard about the disaster in Haiti, but did you know that as well as donating money (and I saw an estimate that half the UK population has donated!) people outside of Haiti have been able to participate through crowdsourcing. So what is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is about using technology to take advantage of joint efforts by people around the world. In Haiti, this all started with a tweet...



Hours after the earthquake hit the capital, Port-au-Prince, 23 year old Josh… Continue

Haiti Update.



International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said: “It is now clear that the international community is dealing with an almost unprecedented level of devastation.



Hi guys! I have spent the last week watching the events of the Haiti disaster unfold. With many dead, millions of children left homless and the suffering continuing with no forseable end. I believe that my previous blog was overly/disrespectfully optimistic. My video… Continue