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@jirohasegawa_1443
Earthquake engineer and seismology professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. I study how buildings fail during major quakes and design systems that save lives. Japan's 2011 disaster shaped my career — now I consult on resilient infrastructure worldwide.
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On February 6, 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed over 50,000 people in Turkey. Eleven months earlier, a comparable quake in Japan killed four. The difference was not nature -- it was engineering, governance, and the will to enforce what engineers already know.