In Haiti, disaster risks linger as another earthquake anniversary passes
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Experts say lives may have been saved had Haiti been able to apply more lessons from the that killed between 100,000 and 300,000 people, most of them in the capital, Port-au-Prince – enforcing building codes to make housing safer, , and ensuring enough suitable shelter.
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Due to funding shortfalls, only one of the country’s seven earthquake monitoring stations is fully operational, Prépetit told The New Humanitarian. “Our budget is insufficient,” he said. “This means that our monitoring network does not have its own budget. We are having difficulty paying for bandwidth, personnel, and fuel.”
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Haiti has made some progress in preparing for floods and storms since 2004 – one of the deadliest years for storm disasters, with that killed some 1,700 people, that caused severe damage to the southern peninsula, and that killed an estimated 3,000 people and displaced 300,000.
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Although some $14 billion in international aid flowed into Haiti after the 2010 earthquake – $9 million worth of were also approved by the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission – only a small fraction of it has been spent on preventative measures.
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