Haiti quake is a new warning of Latin America’s faultline
By Admin Friday, January 22, 2010BOGOTA — The earthquake that devastated Haiti last week has reminded many Latin Americans of the perilous ground they stand on.
A map of the world’s faultlines makes the danger clear: A red line running from the frigid tip of South America, along the continent’s spine, to the warm waters of the Caribbean.
The cities on the faultline’s path are among the biggest in the region: Santiago, La Paz, Lima, Quito, Bogota and Caracas. All of central America is threatened too.
The images of Haiti’s destruction have brought back all-too-clear memories of past disasters—an earthquake that hit Peru in 1970, killing 70,000 people; the 1976 quake that killed 25,000 people in Guatemala and Mexico City’s 1985 tremor, which killed 10,000 people… more
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