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Anne Kiremidjian, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, says that it could take Haiti 10 years to recover from the earthquake that devastated the island nation on Jan. 12, 2010. Kiremidjian compared the energy from the temblor to that of a nuclear blast.

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  • Up to now, the disaster that happened to Haiti, has not been stopped. Its still leaves scars on us.

  • very well said.. that is because of natural disasters.. so even how good the building is build, it will not stand in an earth quake like that if it is not design including the earth quake with a higher intensity..

  • very informative.. nice observation....

  • This video did a great help in my research. Thanks Stanford.

  • Take the red pill

  • wow!!!!

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