So far they've benefited Quackenbush, financing commercials on earthquake safety featuring the commissioner and produced by his political team.

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Taipei architect Carl Shen was one of hundreds of experts who volunteered to advise residents about building safety in the wake of the earthquake, and did a lot of inspections last week.

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Security chiefs will take questions from local people with nuclear safety in the global spotlight after the Japan earthquake.

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During the earthquake and the hurricane both there were no reported outages of any Public Safety networks.

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Safety in schools has been a major public concern in China since a devastating earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008 killed tens of thousands of people.

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The DPJ promised more welfare spending and a better social safety net, but has struggled to deliver amid the economic downturn and 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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The disaster, caused by an earthquake and resulting tsunami in March, led many countries to postpone building nuclear power until new regulations on safety were put in place.

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Japanese safety experts believed that backup generators at the Fukushima nuclear plant were more than adequate to withstand any earthquake.

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