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    Creative Soups for the Soul: Stories of Community Recovery in Talca, Chile, After the 2010 Earthquake
    (2014)
    Brooke Bender
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    Einat S. Metzl
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    Trinidad Selman
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    GLOGER BETANCOURT, DANIELA
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    Moreno, Nancy
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    Trust via disasters: the case of Chile's 2010 earthquake
    (2014)
    Francisca Dussaillant
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    Eugenio Guzmán
    <jats:p>Chile has a long‐standing history of natural disasters and, in particular, earthquakes. The latest big earthquake hit Chile on 27 February 2010 with a magnitude of 8.8 on the Richter scale. As an event that had a profound impact on significant portions of the population, the earthquake could theoretically have served to build trust by promoting new trust networks through the enhancement of distant family ties and the interaction between affected neighbours. This study offers an empirical analysis of this theory in the Chilean case. It finds that if initial social capital is very low (thus allowing for post‐disaster looting and violence), then the impact of the trust‐increasing effect is smaller. It also shows that the effect of the disaster was not transitory, but that it persisted and actually increased over time.</jats:p>
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    Earthquake response in Chile: A case study in health emergency and disaster risk management
    (2021)
    Alexander Hart, MD
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    Álvaro Mardones Rodríguez, MD
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    José Retamal Carvajal, MD
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    Gregory R. Ciottone, MD
    <jats:p>Chile is one of the most seismically active nations in the world. Due to the frequency of earthquakes, the Chilean government has invested heavily in several earthquake mitigation strategies and is able to boast impressively low numbers of deaths after relatively strong earthquakes. These include earthquake-centered building codes, which help prevent collapses, early detection technologies, early warning systems, public awareness campaigns, and unified command of responding agencies. Disaster risk management is a field in need of more evidence-based recommendations, and taking cues from successful programs such as these is vital to decrease global deaths. There is still room for improvement. Individual frontline responders have sought out further training specific to earthquakes, and the frequency of earthquakes in the country has led to impressive institutional knowledge. However, there needs to be more universal, standardized response training. Additionally, although all responders are brought under one umbrella during a disaster, there is a lack of coordinated training, with most responder training occurring in silos. Further investment in preparedness, and a strong focus on mitigation and prevention of disasters is vital across a number of disasters. Fast onset disasters like earthquakes are especially amenable to mitigation strategies such as those in place in Chile.</jats:p>
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