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US among nations sending help to search for survivors on country’s north coast where dozen of buildings flattened Venezuela earthquake – latest updates Rescue teams are racing to Venezuela’s shattered northern coast after a sucker punch of almost simultaneous earthquakes reduced dozens of buildings to rubble, with thousands feared to have been killed. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said …
Brian Bledsoe, a professor and founding director of the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems in the College of Engineering, spoke with GPB about the rise of natural disasters in Georgia. According to Bledsoe, Georgia needs a statewide plan to standardize disaster response which has, at this point, been managed by a variety of agencies with […] The post Professor talks about plans for na…