Puerto Rico’s Dangerous Buildings – Why do Some Buildings Collapse?
Dr. Kit Miyamoto meets with a Puerto Rican homeowner whos house partially collapsed during the 2020 Puerto Rico earthquakes. Watch the video to earn what made this building vulnerable and what you can do to protect your own home.
News X: Earthquake Alert! How Prepared are We?
On 25 April 2015 at 11:56 am Nepal Standard Time an earthquake struck lasting just 55 secs but this became the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake. The earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, killing 21 making April 25, 2015 the deadliest day on the mountain in history.
It triggered another huge avalanche in the Langtang valley, where 250 people were reported missing. With a magnitude of 8.1 this earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly 22,000. Now even a bigger one is expected to hit the states of Delhi, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, North-East & Jammu and Kashmir.
Experts have warned of a catastrophic earthquake in north India in the near future. MHA experts have warned that earthquakes with a magnitude of 8.0 or more on the Richter scale are likely to hit the Himalayan region.
With the little preparedness and inadequate machines and supplies that our states have will the disaster teams with no training be quick to react as fires from gas leaks rage across India? Will hospitals that are ill equipped be able to deal with the injured and homeless? The question that we need to ask ourselves is – How prepared are we?
75,000 Deaths Forecast for Disastrous Northern Haiti Earthquake
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A UNDP conference on the “Seismic Risk and Consequences for Northern Haiti and Vulnerable Schools”
Overdue California quake greater than thought, report says. Dr. Miyamoto Responds
A report by a Cal State Northridge geologist says that the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults could rupture
Mongolia Faces Earthquake Disaster
A team of Miyamoto engineers led by Dr. Kit Miyamoto himself helped the Government of Mongolia begin to
San Andreas: Hollywood Hype or Real Risk?
New10.net – Remember… “San Andreas” is a movie. Hollywood-scripted magnitude 9.6 earthquakes are almost impossible to happen in Los Angeles and San Francisco, so say seismic experts. They say the maximum on the San Andreas fault running up and down the West Coast would be an 8.3 based on computer models.