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An 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile in 2010 killed more than 700 people. On January 12, 2010, a less powerful earthquake, measuring 7.0, killed more than 200,000 in Haiti. Why do you think this happened?

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The main reason for this is the engineering and technology driven building construction in Chile than in Haiti

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The main reason for this is the engineering and technology driven building construction in Chile than in Haiti. Most of the buildings in Haiti do not fit in the building byelaws norms as most of them were constructed in a short period of time with less engineering and at cheaper rate. While building in Chile were built adhering to the building codes and byelaws.

The base of the building is Chile were separated from each other using the “base isolation” technology and the were also more flexible as compared to the buildings in Haiti.

The skyscrapers in Chile were constructed in a way that they can float on the arrangements of ball bearings and padded cylinders

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