Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Wednesday 8 September
New Zealand faces up to its fault lines
Within hours of Saturday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Canterbury, streets were flooded by broken water mains and sewage pipes.
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Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Saturday 5 March
Christchurch – A rebuild that’s not just bricks and mortar
As Christchurch reels from what could prove to be New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, a new dread is gripping residents – that their city may never truly recover.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Saturday 27 March
Was Chile’s earthquake man-made?
Increasing numbers of Chileans are starting to wonder if the deadly earthquake that struck a month ago was not natural but man-made.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Thursday 23 June
Japan tries to keep its cool
The world news agenda might have moved on to new locations, but the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster in Japan on 11 March continues to make headline news at home. As summer approaches and…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 11 March
Remember what’s important
Two years after Japan’s largest post-war disaster its recovery has been astonishing but politics is slowing progress.
Design / Property
Making shelter
An association of housing manufacturers and builders is providing prefabricated homes for people in the areas worst hit by Japan’s tsunami and earthquake. Monocle visits Rikuzen-Takata, where over a third of the town needs…
Business / Small Business
Back to business
With many of Japan’s businesses cruelly flattened, the rebuilding process must begin, but with energy in short supply and the economy having suffered a huge blow, that’s a big challenge. Monocle looks at 10 badly hit sec…
Culture / Television
At the scene
Following the March earthquake and tsunami, NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, provided the footage that filled the world’s TV screens. Monocle visits the studios to find out what happened when the disaster drill became real…
The Globalist, episode 10
We hear from the Turkish President on how his country is recovering from the earthquake. Plus, the ongoing rebound of music on vinyl.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 26 January
Haiti’s lifeline – from Africa
For Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal’s octogenarian president and a committed pan-Africanist, simply offering aid to Haiti’s earthquake victims was not enough.
The Urbanist, episode 34
Quake cities: San Francisco, Tokyo and Port-au-Prince – the Urbanist looks at how cities prepare for, recover from and remember earthquakes.
The Monocle Daily, episode 6
Today we look at whether the recent earthquake in Turkey will help Turkish/Kurdish relations and speak to John McClory about our soft power survey.
Affairs / Politics
Asia Briefing
The Malaysian PM's motorcade, Japan's special town for pensioners, and how the Haitian earthquake became a chance for Taiwan to make its mark.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Sunday 28 November
An election to cure Haiti’s ills
The next president of Haiti was already facing a catalogue of woes: nearly one million homeless, a civil service crippled by January’s earthquake, a new superstructure of international aid workers covering the country in…
Affairs / Transport
Oceania Briefing
Australia heads into a housing bubble, while in Christchurch the nightlife heads to the suburbs. Plus, we speak to the man in charge of rebuilding post-earthquake New Zealand.
Affairs / Society
Dream team
Israel’s National Search and Rescue Unit, made up entirely of volunteers, is always one of the first teams to arrive in major disasters, including the earthquake in Haiti.
The Globalist: Asia, episode 12
The potential implications for Iran’s nuclear industry after its biggest earthquake in 50 years, we speak to our correspondent in Boston after yesterday’s bombing, and get business news from Singapore.