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   From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com   
      
   Experts gathered in Nepal a week ago to ready for earthquake   
      
   By Seth Borenstein   
   AP Science Writer   
   FOX 11 LA KTTV   
   Saturday, April 25, 2015   
      
   Nepal's devastating earthquake was the disaster experts   
   knew was coming.   
      
   Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social   
   scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu,   
   Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested,   
   overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for   
   the big one, a repeat of the 1934 temblor that leveled   
   this city. They knew they were racing the clock, but they   
   didn't know when what they feared would strike.   
      
   "It was sort of a nightmare waiting to happen," said   
   seismologist James Jackson, head of the earth sciences   
   department at the University of Cambridge in England.   
   "Physically and geologically what happened is exactly   
   what we thought would happen."   
      
   But he didn't expect the massive quake that struck   
   Saturday to happen so soon. The magnitude 7.8 earthquake   
   killed nearly 1,400 and counting and caused widespread   
   destruction.   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   http://www.myfoxla.com/story/28898553/experts-gathered-in-nepal-   
   -week-ago-to-ready-for-earthquake   
      
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   Om Shanti   
      
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