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Tuesday 5 February 2013

Compare Haiti and Japan disasters

                                                                        HAITI                    JAPAN
MAGNITUDE:                                                      7                             9
AREA AFFECTED:                                        100 km squared        125 km squared
AFTER SHOCKS MAGNITUDE:                           4-5                             7
PEOPLE DEAD or MISSING:                           220,000                    18942
YEARS ESTIMATED TO REBUILD:                    10                              5
BUILDINGS DESTROYED:                               2933383                   457000
MONEY IT WILL TAKE TO REBUILD:              billions                  $500 billion
MONEY RAISED TO HELP:                            $57 million              $ 25 million

RECOMMENDATION: HAITI should improve building designs and be more strict about how buildings are built and JAPAN should keep doing what its doing right now.

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