When accra exprienced its first earthquake in 1939, the population - TopicsExpress



          

When accra exprienced its first earthquake in 1939, the population of acrra was only 7000, and ppl did not even live along the the seismic prone areas ie the earthquake prone areas, comprising weija, kasoa, and macathy hill, 17 ppl died then and 133 sustained injuries, there where no high rise buildings by then and structures were more stronger compared to today , nw accras population is nearly 8m, buildings dont go thru proper checks and the seismic prone areas r even over populated, so paddies im asking, can we contain an earthquake in accra, cos accra is along with elmina, cape coast, ho, and axim lie within the earthquake zone
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:52:50 +0000

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