Earthquakes are, admittedly, not one of Africa's greatest problems. But it has happened before in Morocco, and it can happen again elsewhere in Africa. Turkey, as shown above, was woefully unprepared for its big quake. There was no sophisticated equipment to detect and search for survivors. People used their bare hands and crude tools to dig through the rubble.
Turkey is said to have one of the largest armed forces in the world.
And here comes my main point. Nations spend billions of dollars to maintain standing armies even though they may face no threat of war. If all nations abolished their standing armies, more money could be made available for every country, including those in Africa, to buy sophisticated equipment and train personnel to handle natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, fires etc. There appears to be not much consideration given to this. In Africa, the least said the better.