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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110314:20:12:00

schools are typically built at higher elevations than many other buildings and the building codes for schools are more stricter. they are more earthquake resistance, and they also become an immediate place for refugees in the aftermath of something like this, so hundreds of people have been coming into this particular part of the school, this gymnasium. they say anywhere around 700 people in this particular area. more people in other parts of the school. this is quickly becoming one of the largest refugee areas as a result. very cold outside, so people who are displaced as a result of the mandatory evacuation, fukushima 100 kilometers from here, but people in onigawa are made their way to this particular refugee area. that s the difference in all these tragedies over the last several days. dr. sanjay gupta there, and now one more aspect here. it s a different look at the disaster in japan, the economy. the economic impact could be

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100302:04:08:00

500,000 buildings are damaged. probably half of those irreparably. we re looking at a kind of earthquake resistance that enables people to walk out of these damaged structures. reporter: in the same way chile s building codes were a success, haiti was a dismal and deadly failure. in port-au-prince we surveyed the damage with structural engineer who specializes in earthquakes. you see a column. you see top of column. you see rebar. doesn t have enough group. just does not have enough rebar. that s why it collapsed like that. it s really brutal. reporter: chile is one of the wealthiest and most transparent countries in south america. haiti is the poorest and among the most corrupt in the western hemisphere. how does haiti get the money and enforcement power to change the rules and build safe buildings? we know that this area is one of the highest risk area in the whole world.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100301:12:35:00

9.5, i think, in 1960 that was simply devastated. we don t want to minimize the importance of the loss of life here, but it is really engineering and preparedness that you think have helped minimize the loss of life in this event. yeah, i have agree with you. despite the loss of life, this has to be regarded as a success story. but remember that 500,000 buildings are damaged, probably half of those irrepairably but we re looking at a kind of earthquake resistance that enables people to walk out of these damaged structures. in haiti, the structures pancaked. there was no possible way of surviving death, largely because the buildings were incredibly fragile. they have been doomed from the moment that people started building them because people were copying designs that were completely hopeless at surviving shaking. in chile, the history of earthquakes goes back several

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100302:06:06:00

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