Six years after Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-seven earthquake, the government seismologist who predicted it, warns little has been done to protect people in the likely event of a repeat disaster.

Claude Prepetit, the chief seismologist at the Bureau of Mines, says the risk of a major earthquake remains as high today as it was on January 12th, 2010, when more than 200,000 people died in a catastrophic event that leveled much of the Haitian capital.

While the country has since been studied and carefully mapped by seismologists, authorities have done little to translate what’s been learned into practical measures to limit the effects of another quake, Prepetit said in an interview with AFP News Agency.

Many of the deaths in the 2010 quake were attributed to poor construction that failed to withstand the force of the quake.

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