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Haiti Officials Warned About Quake in 2008

Haiti Officials Warned About Quake in 2008 – Scientists detect worrying signs of growing tensions in the ruling that triggered the devastating earthquake a week in Haiti, said he warned officials that two years ago that his country was ripe for a major earthquake.

Their sobering findings, presented at a geological conference in March 2008 and meetings two months later, showed that the fault could cause an earthquake of 7.2 magnitude – a bit stronger than the earthquake of 7 , 0 on Tuesday that hit the impoverished country.

Although Haitian officials listened to the research, the time for almost two years between submission and the devastating earthquake was not sufficient to Haiti have done much for preventing the massive destruction.

“It’s too short a period of time to really do something, especially for a country like Haiti, but even in a developed country is very difficult to start large operations in two years,” said Eric Calais, a professor of geophysics at Purdue University, said Thursday.

Their findings also lacked a specific timetable that could have prompted swift action to strengthen hospitals, schools and other buildings that collapsed and fell, said Paul Mann, a research scientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.

At the time of the earthquake, the International Red Cross estimates that killed between 45,000 and 50,000 people, Haiti was still recovering from a series of disasters. Only in 2008, was hit four times by tropical storms and hurricanes. The country also suffers from a number of social ills such as poverty, unstable governments and poor construction standards that make buildings vulnerable to earthquakes.

“The government of Haiti has so many other problems when given a kind of non-specific prediction about an earthquake threat that simply do not have the resources to cope with that sort of thing,” Mann said.

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