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Documents Related to the Pakistan Earthquake Response in 2005
The efforts of A&D on the affected zones by the earthquake of magnitude 7.6 which struct Pakistan in October 2005, the epicentre of which was 95km north of the capital city of Islamabad. The earthquake struck the remote regions in this case mostly from the northern part of Pakistan.
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Learning from Lefkas
Lefkas (Greece) folk have developed an original type of earthquake resistant construction, which can widely inspire our work about Batar (wood-reinforced stone masonry).
Toolkits distribution
It was long since planned that we should provide the communities with toolkits. We first ran an experiment on six selected villages, and only once it was assessed we green lit the purchase of seventy kits. (…)
Mobile Team & Village Reconstruction Comities.
Since several months, trained teams of committed masons, carpenters and social workers hike in the highs of Batagram (North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan) in order to teach earthquake-resistance technique to (…)