{UAH} PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE EARTHQUAKES??

Friends,

Hope all you posters there are okay after the earthquake! What number on the richter scale was it. Hopefully there won't be any damage from the after shocks.Sometimes when a fault line unzips at one point another bit further along unzips soon after. It is something one can't predict.The one thing we can be sure of is most of the houses in Uganda aren't built to strict earthquake codes.Sometimes we jump the gun with survival mania and do it in an unbalanced way

God, of course, can be "tyrannical" because he is perfect, and he has his reasons for testing us with earthquakes.Humans are not and therefore must rely on institutional safeguards and protections, imperfect though they may be. We should, therefore, try to do prepare ourselves for the future:
1.Have mandatory insurance laws put in place - so that victims who happen to be injured can get some sort of redress;
2.Develop and enforce strict building codes to stop the builders do what they may.Unregulated building may lead to unsafe, ecologically unsound results;
3.Force builders to put sprinkler and other fire safety measures in buildings. Considering how important fire protection is, it would most likely become a mandatory feature in the opinion of the market--everyone would be willing to pay the extra twenty dollars a month to avoid being incinerated.

You never know what might happen by taking one small action.Disasters seem to be epidemic at the moment.From all accounts it seems Tanzania suffered most.

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*Abbey Kibirige  Semuwemba*

Stalk my blog at: http://semuwemba.com/

"My journey is long and my preparation is so little, and weakness has gripped me and death is chasing me!"

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