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Engaging with locals aids "healing" say post-earthquake masterplanners
06 Jun 2024 15:43 GMT
Involving locals in post-disaster rebuilding can aid recovery from trauma and ensure communities are effectively restored, say Foster + Partners architects designing the Antakya masterplan following the Turkey-Syria earthquakes.
"The process of being …
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Inside eerie abandoned ghost town on a mountain that has been frozen in time for 15 years after devastating earthquake
11 Apr 2024 16:18 GMT
THIS is the eerie abandoned town left frozen in time after hundreds were killed in Italy's worst earthquake.
The southern town of Fossa was a picturesque location before its decimation, thriving as a historic community basking beneath the Italian sun.
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Shigeru Ban’s shelter for Morocco earthquake evacuees
16 Oct 2023 10:12 GMT
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has long been socially engaged through the Voluntary Architects Network (VAN), which he founded in 1995, providing humanitarian aid from a construction perspective to populations following various types of crises and …
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Mysterious lights were spotted in the sky before Morocco's devastating earthquake hit last week - and scientists don't know what caused them
13 Sep 2023 14:10 GMT
Footage of strange blue lights has arisen following Morocco's tragic earthquake
Experts say the glow may be a rare phenomenon called 'earthquake lights'
By Lauren Haughey
Published: 09:44 EDT, 13 September 2023 | Updated: 09:46 EDT, 13 …
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Electoral earthquakes: Local shocks and authoritarian voting
12 Jun 2023 00:23 GMT
In recent years, the electoral fortunes of authoritarian populism have spurred a policy-relevant debate regarding the breeding ground of the political support for authoritarian parties and leaders (Danieli et al. 2023, Rodrik 2019, Tabellini 2019). Various …
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Italy honors Türkıiye, Syria quake victims on L'Aquila anniversary
07 Apr 2023 14:45 GMT
Italy paid tribute Thursday to Turkish and Syrian quake victims on the 14th anniversary of its L'Aquila earthquake, which killed 309 people. As every year, commemoration programs were held for those who lost their lives on April 6, 2009, at 3:32 a.m. …
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L'Aquila quake reconstruction simplification like NRRP -PM
05 Apr 2023 17:21 GMT
(ANSA) - ROME, APR 5 - Premier Girogia Meloni said at a
ceremony marking the 14th anniversary of the deadly L'Aquila
earthquake Wednesday that simplification similar to that used in
implementing the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP)
would …
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L'Aquila anniversary 'new day of commitment' - Mattarella
06 Apr 2023 09:05 GMT
(ANSA) - ROME, APR 6 - The anniversary of the earthquake
that devastated L'Aquila and the surrounding area on April 6,
2009, killing 309, was "a renewed day of commitment" to
reconstruction, President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella said
on …
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Deadliest earthquakes for history
08 Feb 2023 06:02 GMT
More dan 5,000 pipo don die and thousands dey injured sake of di big earthquake wey hit south-eastern Turkey, near di Syrian border.
Di earthquake happun for di early hours of Monday.
E land near di town of Gaziantep, followed by several aftershocks - …
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How to rescue and renovate culture sites after deadly earthquakes
21 Feb 2023 06:42 GMT
When an earthquake strikes, the priority for rescue teams is to save as many lives as possible.
But there is also the need to preserve historical heritage. And the way in which ancient buildings survive can also provide many lessons as authorities look to …