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Release Date: January 20, 2010 This content is archived.
An opinion piece on CNN about decades of inadequate construction in Haiti and the role it played in the Caribbean island nation's earthquake devastation is written by Pierre Fouche, a Haitian citizen and UB doctoral candidate in earthquake engineering. The piece mentions the need for multihazard engineering, which it identifies as being a strength of UB and MCEER.
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