The editors at gadaa.com, a Horn of Africa news site and portal, wonder if Chinese construction companies in the Ethiopian city of Finfinne (or Addis Ababa, as it is also known) are using the same building standards in Finfinne as were apparently used to build schools in China:
Looking back, it is important to note that school buildings were the most affected by the quake. Thousands of children, who were attending classes, were buried alive underneath blocks of crumbling concrete walls. Whereas government buildings located in the same quake zone as the schools did not even get a scratch (so to say) from the earthquake. Over the past week, this fact has raised eyebrows among many engineers and experts of building safety standards. These engineers and experts ask: why would government buildings stand tall and schools crumble down when both structures were equally hit with the same quake?
Great question.
(Thanks to Habtamu Dugo for the link)
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