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Displaying 2 of about 2 resultsGENEVA, March 4, 2015: Five years after it was devastated by two major earthquakes, Christchurch, New Zealand, is continuing its transformation into one of the world’s most resilient cities with much to share with other urban centers on how to reduce disaster risk in an earthquake zone.
“On Valentine’s Day, the city was impacted by a 5.7 eart…
GENEVA, 6 June 2012 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, has just visited the site of a major reconstruction programme which is about to start in the earthquake-devastated centre of Christchurch, New Zealand.
"Over 300 million people live in urban seismic zones around the world which ar…