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World view: Brick by brick
April, 2010
Driven by population growth, urbanization and poverty, earthquake casualties worldwide continue to rise. The latest event struck on 14 April in western China, killing more than 2,200 people - a grisly coda to January's catastrophe in Haiti, which left about 230,000 dead.
Din Kakar Profile
May, 2010
Dear Friends of GHI,
I recently had the pleasure of hosting Din Muhammad Kakar, an earth scientist who was visiting GeoHazards International (GHI) from the University of Balochistan in Quetta, Pakistan. Since 2008, GHI has sponsored Din and two other professors from developing countries as members of the Seismological Society of America (SSA). This year Din won the international travel grant to attend the SSA conference and came to America for the first time, where he met with earthquake experts from around the world and later visited the University of Colorado (host: Roger Bilham), Caltech and the USGS (host: Sue Hough), and Stanford and GHI (hosts: Greg Deierlein and me). I'm inspired by Din's heroic efforts to raise awareness of earthquake risk in Balochistan, and I want to share his story with GHI's friends and supporters.