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There are many levels of damage which occur in solid and pre-fabricated structures inside Seismic activity high risk areas and regions, which are determined by the level of seismic activity, but also by strength of structure, construction materials and historical wear and tear, moderate Earthquake magnitude may cause severe damage in areas with weak structure construction, severe Earthequake magnitude may cause moderate damage where construction material is far stronger, depth and seismic period of seismic activity also determine the level of damage experienced. Landscape and environment also play a role, seismic activity which occurs on solid stone or hard terraferma can radiate energy in ways that are not seen in soft clay are particle matter environments. Common to all Earthquakes is an ascending scale of damage from slight damage that may readily be repaired, to damage that is so severe any structure no matter what its composition has little to no chance of survival even over the span of a few seconds. Wherever Earthquakes are present, the period from first activity, typically a gentle swaying motion of the ground from side to side, to swaying motion with slight elevation, it is the first few seconds which count in and for the human mind, ALL structures need to remain standing for the longest period of time to maximise safe evacuation. Successful Earthquake preparedness and civil society construction predparedness MUST entail building for the highest quality universally. In the video above, a civil engineer begins the work of lower level damage assessment for those buildings which remain standing, but which may now carry a level of superstructure damage that may require demolition of the structure, despite appearing otherwise viable and healthy. Many buildings which remain standing in Venezuela, and may seem completely safe to re-enter, are in fact fit only for demolition.

*Third Provisional Assessment is $167,000,000 (one hundred and sixty seven million US dollars) are immediately available for emergency shelter, food, water, medicines and immediate needs for directly affected, secondary affected and generally affected, including assistance with distribution of goods, mobilisation of food and water supply, treatment of food and water supply and setting up of temporary accommodation, followed by a main tranche of $259,000,000,000 (two hundred and fifty nine billion US dollars) for rebuilding to sufficient standard all buildings destroyed in the Earthquake, earthquake proofing and safeguarding, infrastructure proofing standards, roads, railways, pedestrian and other public service byways all rebuilt to sufficient Earthquake proofing standards compliance. Major and minor local and national Government rebuilding, all to Earthquake proofing standards compliance, so initial investment, followed by main tranche spending allowances followed by budget over-runs which should be expected due to the nature of the work being done. We estimate a tidy $506,000,000,000 (five hundred and six billion US dollars) over the next 10 years. All of it directly and immediately debitable from national oil revenues.

These figures are in addition to public funds currently being collected by charities and aid organisations throughout the World. Insurance premiums however they might exist are not appropriate as they are unable to sufficiently ensure quality of forward development especially in the science of natural disaster preparedness and disaster-zone construction theory/practice.

While these estimates may seem high, and certainly higher than is seen elsewhere, these figures include a more realistic approach to international construction within areas at high risk of seismic activity, building within these areas requires more specialist construction knowledge, superior materials science, more precise construction supervision and far more research and development, in addition, maintenance regimes on construction completion to ensure stability over the longer term are default.

When natural disasters such is this strike, it is understandable to want to concentrate foremost on the human loss encountered, and the social implications of that loss, but equally one must concentrate on the future, and to ensure as much is done as possible to ensure further losses are not encountered, despite ongoing seismic activity, which is an entirely natural process.

Venezuela must be supported by the International Community beyond the current malaise over fossil resources, and beyond the current political malaise about whom does and does not control those resources, indeed, Venezuela has an opportunity here to become a powerful and sturdy example of humanities greater spirit for the future. It is unnacceptable for any entity to claim that a Socialist nation does not have the capacity to stand as an example for governmental planning and foresight, when Venezuela, among others, stands at the forefront of humanities greatest existential challenge on Earth, life amongst the seismic habitat and environment.*

Venezuela is of course the scene of an international criminal abduction, a criminal offence, undertaken and committed by the so-called 'Government' of the United States, which spent a lot of public treasure or money on 'advertising' that criminal offence, to criminally steal the natural resources of a foreign state. The US Government, which I can assure you is not much more than a common and institutionally criminal state, now accepts, in full, the monetary consequences of those decisions.

Nicolás Maduro Moros, the 53rd and current President of Venezuela, is currently illegally abducted by the so-called Government of the United States awaiting a criminal trial which is illegal under International law, the abduction is suspected to have been the malignant work of Mr Marco Rubio a known American nationalist extremist and fundamentalist operating within the US Department of State. The so-called US Government, in pursuit of a form of populism that would normalise that criminal state, is behaving in a manner that is entirely dependent on the ability to make headlines on internet websites and various small sector private news broadcasters, to breed within the public mind an acceptance of crime, its motives, and its outcomes. The International Community is, of course, vastly more professional and, therefore, entirely unconcerned with the security & safety of the so-called US Government and those whom purport to serve it. 

Of course the issue of abducting heads of states from their nations in order to engage in supposed equality of legal foresight exists primarily in the International Community under the auspices of International Law, under International Jurisdiction, process and guidance, a concept and framework the United States is neither signatory too, nor enactor of, the so-called US Government preferring to full-fill the role of International Policeman without law, court, jury or justice. There is not now, nor has there ever been, a nation state that has ever played that role. Nor has there ever been a nation state that survived for long in alliance to such a monstrous violation of the International spirit. Indeed, all nations that are foolish enough to state a belief in such nonsense are not merely bystanders to crime, but active participants in crime, and International crimes are supreme in nature. The United States Government is widely, throughout the World, considered the Worlds most corrupt state.

Throughout the entirety of the period from 1947 to the present day, the World knows almost nothing about the American populace due to the errant and corrupted nature of American polity, culture, society and media, leaving the American populace one of the most secretive in the World. Externally, the rest of the World knows only that which is designed to advertise a corrupted form of American government which is neither Capitalism nor Socialism, but likely an abhorrent form of deregulated Corporatism shared and operated by no other nation on Earth. This deregulated Corporatism is almost entirely dependent on Carbon Fossil resources and arrives within the US economy as a source of income in statutory form, the so-called Petrodollar, an income which is derived from oil-based transactions on monetary markets conducted by others but which the US Government profits from, this same profit is almost certainly being used to undermine other Governments around the World, even those whom profess a friendly disposition to the US Government.

Over recent years it has become obvious that the US Government is funding far right idealism through highly dubious private sector media corporations in other countries; in the UK, these ideas have no hope of settling in any political form, despite the so-called US Governments insistence to the contrary.

Curiously, since the induction of the Nationalist Donald J Trump into the office of US Federalist, an increasing number of wealthy Autocrats have begun to engage in setting up so-called media organisations that tend to permeate far right nationalist and sometimes even Fascist themed content toward the unsuspecting public, all directed toward the anti-war and anti-fascist majority most especially in Europe. The anti-war majority stood against US Federalist Government violent campaigns in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Venezuela and now the Islamic Republic of Iran. On each occasion the US Federal so-called Government has attempted to initiate campaigns of violence against usually smaller nations, the anti-war majority have advised against, and then been ignored. The so-called US Government instead choosing to initiate secondary acts of violence utilising Fascist and Nationalist themes in order, once again, to teach the wider public that crime and disorder are normal concepts that may be admired, publicly.

On a number of occasions, especially in the United States, conversations regarding the adoption of armed conflict within the United States and European area have been disseminated by far right media entities. A state of Armed Conflict within the Western World would only end in the pogrom of the Nationalist and its Fascist ideologue and their permanent expulsion from the entirety of western Government strata, both local and national, and no doubt, strong prosecution within the local, national and international environment.

In literal terms, far right idealism has as much standing within internationalism as looting does in natural disaster, tolerable up and to a point, but beyond that point quite unacceptable and worthy of strong and unforgiving suppression.

Perhaps you might want to name this 'double whammy' Earthquake after Mr Trump himself?

Yes, in fact we shall do exactly this, the Earthquake, a double strike occurred slightly west of Morón at El Guayabo, a coastal town in Northern Venezuela The Twin Earthquakes have caused extensive damage throughout the region, fatalities and injuries are expected to rise over the coming days, many fatalities have yet to occur, as many are currently trapped without the ability to move and will not survive for much longer, indeed over the course of the last few hours alone hundreds more have died from constriction and compression injuries; this incident is, naturally, one of the more serious incidents of its kind. At present the International Community is still responding to the incident, but will, as expected, arrive in due course with a clear and comprehensive plan of action in front of it.

Financial damage is provisionally estimated in the tens/hundreds of billions of dollars but will increase as time goes on.