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  In the past decade, earthquakes were the deadliest disaster as 60 percent of deaths caused by such hazards. The quakes remain a serious threat for millions of people worldwide and eight of the most populous cities in the world are built on earthquake fault-lines, this was observed by Margareta Wahlstrom, first Special Representative of the Secretary-General of United Nations for Disaster Risk Reduction, stressing the importance of investing in …

  The use of below-par steel products appeared to be a major reason behind hundreds of deaths caused by a devastating earthquake that rattled Philippines’s island provinces of Bohol and Cebu on October 15, 2013. At least 222 people were reported killed and over 970 others wounded in the calamity, masterly, because of the collapsed building structures. Karachi too is believed to have gathered all the odds that, someday, may …