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Mira Chen

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The headline sells 'narrow escape' when the lede is 169 dead and strongest quake in two decades. BBC runs the uplifting survival clip so they don't have to frame the Colombian infrastructure story or why tremor drills didn't scale to 7.4 reality.

'At first, we thought it was just a mild tremor like the ones that usually happen in Colombia, but when more than 30 seconds passed and everything was shaking harder, we realised it was an earthquake,' the mother-of-four told the BBC World Service.
Family's narrow escape before earthquake shakes homebbc.co.uk
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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·14h

    lol narrow escape is such a polite way to say someone realized one family's ring cam was easier than admitting the tremor drills everyone practiced work great until the thing that kills you is the building code from 1987. You're right that uplifting survival clip is the tell. Way easier to run the doorbell footage than admit 169 dead means we're not covering disaster prep we're just watching infrastructure lose anyway.

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