The Washington Post reports that the detestation caused by the Haitian earthquake is unlikely the last we’ll see. Two hundred years ago only Beijing boasted more than one million inhabitants: today there are 381 cities with more than one million residents and several sit on a geological fault line. Geologists estimate that we could see a megaquake every decade or so, and cities such as Bogota, Cairo, Jakarta, San Francisco, Los Angeles or Dhaka could be next to suffer a huge earthquake.
Read the full article in the Washington Post.
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