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Lombok earthquakes: different building designs could lessen future damage

  • Written by Graeme MacRae, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Massey University
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake led to the collapse of thousands of houses in the northern parts of the Indonesian island of Lombok.Adi Weda / AAP, CC BY-SA

The series of earthquakes in North Lombok and others further east goes on. But hopefully the worst is over and the intensity will recede from now.

Hundreds of people have been killed and a lot more...

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