TY - GEN
T1 - 2010 earthquakes in Haiti and Chile
T2 - 54th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2010: Governance for a Resilient Planet
AU - Aceves, F. J.
AU - Audefroy, J.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Why did a relatively mild earthquake of 7.0 degrees on the Richter scale in Haiti cause more than 200,000 dead? And why did a very intense 8.8 Richter earthquake in Chile cause less than one thousand dead? In this paper, the socio-economic, demographic, legal, cultural, and natural causes of these differences are analyzed from a systemic standpoint. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the creation of a set of standards for Latin-American cities, to be better prepared in confronting the effects of disastrous events such as earthquakes. Some of the preliminary conclusions of this paper are that the lack of high construction standards in Haiti, together with poverty and uncontrolled demographic growth in Port au Prince made the city very vulnerable. Chilean cities, on the other hand, with a better socio-economic and cultural level, and very strict construction standards, survived the earthquake and its sequels better than in Haiti.
AB - Why did a relatively mild earthquake of 7.0 degrees on the Richter scale in Haiti cause more than 200,000 dead? And why did a very intense 8.8 Richter earthquake in Chile cause less than one thousand dead? In this paper, the socio-economic, demographic, legal, cultural, and natural causes of these differences are analyzed from a systemic standpoint. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the creation of a set of standards for Latin-American cities, to be better prepared in confronting the effects of disastrous events such as earthquakes. Some of the preliminary conclusions of this paper are that the lack of high construction standards in Haiti, together with poverty and uncontrolled demographic growth in Port au Prince made the city very vulnerable. Chilean cities, on the other hand, with a better socio-economic and cultural level, and very strict construction standards, survived the earthquake and its sequels better than in Haiti.
KW - Chile
KW - Disaster prevention
KW - Earthquakes
KW - Haiti
KW - Systemic analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84865650730&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84865650730
SN - 9781617820618
T3 - 54th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2010: Governance for a Resilient Planet
SP - 295
EP - 303
BT - 54th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2010
Y2 - 18 July 2010 through 23 July 2010
ER -