Sentences with phrase «following big earthquakes»
Over many years, Wyss has provided emergency aid agencies and nonprofit groups with rapid initial death and damage estimates and maps in the hours or days following big earthquakes.
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What follows is the thieves preparing and stumbling at fulfilling the plan, including but not limited to the inept Livingston Dell (Eddie Jameson) trying to rig an automatic card shuffler, Yen (Shaobo Qin) and Linus pretending to a rich Chinese national and his big - nosed assistant to get on Bank's right - hand «man» Abigail Sponder's (Ellen Barkin) good side, and Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle) burrowing under Vegas with a drill that was used to create the Chunnel to simulate an earthquake.
As was explored here following the enormous toll in student (and teacher) deaths from the earthquake in China's Sichuan province, this doesn't take high technology or big budgets — simply adherence to well established norms for designing buildings to sway instead of crumble or pancake.