14.03.2011                      08.Adar ll, 5771

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Disaster studies expert: We are not prepared for quake

If a 7 or 8 magnitude quake were to hit Israel, it could cause more damage, loss of life than any war Israel has fought, expert says.

As bad as events may seem in Japan in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake and tsunami that has killed untold thousands and caused critical failures at nuclear power plants, Prof. Avi Kirschenbaum, a disaster studies expert at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, thinks it could have been much worse.
If stringent building codes had not been enforced by authorities on the quakeprone island, then the death toll could have been even higher….