{"id":2085,"date":"2010-01-18T12:44:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T18:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2010-01-18T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:56:10","slug":"government-focuses-on-building-code-in-wake-of-haiti-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/accidents-tragedy\/government-focuses-on-building-code-in-wake-of-haiti-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Government focuses on building code in wake of Haiti disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Minister for Immigration, National Security, and Labour Charles Savarin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the wake of a devastating earthquake which rocked the Caribbean island of Haiti last Tuesday, Dominica\u2019s government is focusing on a solid building code which will ensure that buildings here are less susceptible to collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a building code, it is mostly directed at making our buildings hurricane-proof. We are paying some attention to making our buildings less prone to collapse from earthquakes, but making them earthquake-proof requires tremendous technology and is expensive,\u201d Minister for Immigration, National Security, and Labour Charles Savarin said recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cCountries such as Japan, California and a number of others in the world which are earthquake-prone have implemented very strict building codes, which will minimize the damage and loss of life. It will reduce the collapse of buildings. If your buildings are earthquake-proof, or at least be able to withstand earthquakes of a certain magnitude, then destruction and loss of life could be minimized,\u201d Savarin noted.<\/p>\n

According to the government minister, government will seek to increase the information and awareness of the population, while working with experts in that regard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we can seek to do, with the assistance of the Seismic Research Unit in Trinidad, is to monitor and to have as much equipment as possible to be able to identify the nature of the earthquake. It will help us to understand what we can expect in that regard. We could increase information and awareness of the population as to the possibility of an earthquake and the destruction which follows.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Thousands of Haitian residents lost their lives when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the country\u2019s capital Port-au-Prince.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of a devastating earthquake which rocked the Caribbean island of Haiti last Tuesday, Dominica\u2019s government is focusing on a solid building code which will ensure that buildings here are less susceptible to collapse. \u201cWe have a building…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accidents-tragedy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGovernment focuses on building code in wake of Haiti disaster - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/accidents-tragedy\/government-focuses-on-building-code-in-wake-of-haiti-disaster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government focuses on building code in wake of Haiti disaster - 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