article_snippet.sent: Physically and geologically what happened is exactly what The United States Geological Survey thought would happen,' said seismologist James Jackson, head of the earth sciences department at the Cambridge University.
article_snippet.sent: I thought at the very time that the overdeveloped area was heading for trouble,' said Mr Jackson, lead scientist for Earthquakes Without Frontiers, a group that tries to help Asian cities prepare for disasters.
article_snippet.sent: Source: U.S. Geological Survey.
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists discussed how the overdeveloped area would cope with chaos .
  