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In chile and a weak government in haiti. you have a lot of disparities between the two. you have good emergency management in chile, and they had a major quake in the '60s, i believe. and they learned from their mistakes. so they had improved construction codes. and if you look at that 13-story building that collapsed, it collapsed 90 degrees onto its side and is in relatively in good shape. it stayed intact. they used good construction, good rebar, good concrete. >> what is your concept of american construction as opposed to chile? >> i'm not an expert in west coast -- again, they built these...

Of the world's earthquakes or tremors occur. so yeah, it's a country that has been very, very, unfortunately, used to earthquakes. the last major one was in 1985. so all the construction codes have been toughened up, beefed up since '85. but we just saw and just showed it here on msnbc how highways have buckled, bridges have buckled under, there are structures that have collapsed not only in concepcion, but 135 miles north of concepcion, the capital. our reporter had to get off the phone just a few minutes ago because his cell phone battery died and he was in an area where there is still no el...

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