[Petronski]

Actually, third world countries tend to do fairly well in earthquakes due to single story construction with lightweight materials.

[DrGunsforHands]

That’s actually from an earthquake in China in 2008. Check out the red flag. The picture was in a news article from early 2009: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4434400/Chinese-earthquake-may-have-been-man-made-say-scientists.html