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Article: SCIENCE-EGYPT: EARTHQUAKE FEAR BRINGS TREMORS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- October 17, 2002
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CAIRO, Oct. 17 (IPS) -- The tremors that rocked Cairo in August
have left the city fearing for its future if another earthquake
were to hit.
Tremors measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale rattled the city on
August 24, damaging close to 50 buildings and sending terrified
residents into the streets. It reminded residents of the earthquake
that hit Cairo on Oct. 12, 1992 that left 540 dead and more than
10,000 injured. And it reminded residents that lessons have not
been learned. Faulty construction places about a million residents
at risk.
Umm Mohammed, 39, remembers the earthquake ten years ago like
it was yesterday. The walls of her apartment began to crumble. She
grabbed ...