Comparing the Public Health Efforts and Impacts among earthquakes in Central and North America
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Summary
The earthquakes in El Salvador, Colombia, and Los Angeles produced significant and multidimensional environmental health impacts. Yet the structure of their relief efforts and nature of their impacts on environmental and public health differed substantially from one another. It may seem out of place to characterize a natural disaster such as an earthquake as successful, yet its environmental and public health effects are pervasive and extreme, making it necessary to analyze and qualify the success of relief and preparedness measures. This paper will therefore compare the qualities of environmental health practice and consequences in multiple earthquake relief settings, in an attempt to demonstrate the critical differences leading to a successful disaster response agenda with an emphasis on risk reduction.
Table of Contents
- A natural disaster that cannot be predicted
- The earthquake that hit El Salvador on January 13th, 2001, measured 7.6 on the Richter scale
- On January 25, 1999, an earthquake struck Colombia with a magnitude of 6.2
- Los Angeles suffered an earthquake measuring 6.7
- All three earthquakes led to devastating structural damage
- The trauma that results from earthquakes can be devastating
- Earthquakes can also present very direct environmental health effects
- Due to their inherent unpredictability, earthquakes can be perceived as an uncontrollable force of destruction
- The Salvadorian, Colombian, and Los Angeles earthquakes actualized many factors that reinforce the benefit of prequake risk surveillance
- Characterizing Earthquake Risks
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