Sentence examples for catastrophe zones from inspiring English sources

The country's president, Michelle Bachelet, said both areas had been declared catastrophe zones and troops would be sent in to deter looting.

In response, President Michelle Bachelet declared the regions of Bío-Bío and Maule "catastrophe zones" and sent 10,000 troops to keep order the first time the army has been thus used since Chile returned to democracy in 1990.

"And that could have thrilling applications in terms of search and rescue in catastrophe zones".

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet declared parts of the country "catastrophe zones" in the wake of the magnitude 8.8 quake, which was centered offshore, about 70 miles north of the port city of Concepcion.

The government had declared these regions as "catastrophe zones".

'We must help them now' Shortly after the earthquake hit nearly two weeks ago, the Government of Chile declared 6 of the country's 15 regions to be "catastrophe zones".

In his first act as president Mr Piñera declared the region a "catastrophe zone", putting it under military control.

She declared a catastrophe zone in those areas and mobilised the military to help civilians and prevent looting.

While they can become a problem if they contaminate drinking water supplies, that risk is considered low at best in the typhoon catastrophe zone, where relief workers are providing imported water anyway.

More than 800 miles of the 1,200-mile-long 1,200-mile-long 1,200-mile-longplains to the south constitute "a catastrophe zone" that is "ripe, mountainand range to go," sand Dr. Roger G. Bilham, a geologisthet the University of crowdedo and an author of the new study, which is described in the current issue of Science.

The government has declared the area a catastrophe zone.