Sentence examples similar to school earthquake from inspiring English sources

But a month later the legislature passed what is now called the Field Act, a school earthquake-safety law with strict standards and penalties, requiring careful design and independently inspected construction.

All countries – rich and poor – face the problem of how to make the large number of their existing schools earthquake-resistant.

The town is renovating the school for earthquake protection and has tripled the budget for street cleaners.

In Los Angeles, you send your kids to school with earthquake kits, including bottled water, snacks and a reassuring note from Mom, just in case.

Earthquake safety education was introduced in schools and earthquake drills were initiated in Tehran's high schools in 1996, extended to the whole country in 1999, and to secondary level education in 2000.

Rebuilding schools The earthquake that shook Haiti destroyed or damaged some 4,000 schools.

BEHIND THE NEWS The loss of life could have been significantly reduced by designing or retrofitting schools for earthquake zones, experts said.

Rebuilding stronger schools for earthquake survivors in Rwanda KIGALI, Rwanda, 2 June 2009 – The day began like any other quiet Sunday in the western province of Rwanda.

The Chinese government will spend an extra 8bn yuan£800m0m) to strengthen schools in earthquake-prone areas after thousands of pupils died in the Sichuan disaster last year, state media reported today.

UNICEF also pledged to reconstruct some of the destroyed schools with earthquake-resistant permanent buildings.

To begin rebuilding the education system, UNICEF will complete construction of 125 permanent schools – all earthquake-resistant and child friendly – by the end of 2007.