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UN: Short memory "enemy of disaster management"
17.01.2015 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
An inability to remember and learn lessons from major natural catastrophes is the «enemy of disaster management», UN Radio says referring to Margareta Wahlström, the Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), report.
Ms. Wahlström is due to participate in the ceremony on Saturday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Kobe earthquake in Japan.
As it is known, almost 6,500 people lost their lives when the Great Hanshin Awaji earthquake struck the ancient city at just before 6am on the 17th January 1994.
Ms. Wahlström says it is important to remember what she called «distant events» because learning from those catastrophes makes the management of future disasters easier.
It is to be reminded, now earthquakes kill worldwide more people than any other natural hazard.
In the 20 years since Kobe, almost half of the two million deaths from major reported disasters have occurred in earthquakes.
Five of the most deadly earthquakes of the last 100 years had occurred in the last ten years.
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