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I watched with horror as the ferocious giant waves rushed into the Japanese fishing village of Sendai, sweeping cars and houses away as though they were toys. Then came news of other villages being wiped from the map by the tsunami.
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For starters I’d like to say please forgive me to those families in which I can’t help. There are million of people left homeless and although I’ve...
made popular Mar 18 2011
Tragically, natural disasters happen through no fault of any one person or government entity. It seems Mother Nature has been cruelly working overtime these past few...
made popular Mar 16 2011
The largest earthquake ever recorded, an 8.9 magnitude hit the northeastern coast of Japan on Friday. It triggered a tsunami that is sending up to 13-foot to waves from...
made popular Mar 11 2011
New Zealand’s second largest city, Christchurch was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake just before 1pm today. It was 5km deep and the epicenter 10km south east of...
made popular Feb 22 2011
It’s been a year since a massive earthquake devastated Haiti. Days after, huge sections of the country lay in rubble. But in spite of the fact that the world...
made popular Jan 13 2011
The prime minister of Haiti, has criticised the international community for not allowing his country to play a bigger role in its own reconstruction, following an...
made popular Dec 27 2010
(CNN) — Rescuers in Iran worked furiously Tuesday to free people trapped under rubble, a day after a powerful earthquake rippled through a rural stretch of...
made popular Dec 22 2010
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 has struck in the Pacific Ocean, triggering a tsunami warning off the southern coast of Japan.
Japan’s...
made popular Dec 22 2010
TEHRAN — At least seven people have died and hundreds more were injured in a 6.5-magnitude earthquake which struck southeastern Iran, Mehr news agency reported on...
made popular Dec 21 2010
Nov 30 (Reuters) - A deep earthquake measuring 6.9 in magnitude hit islands off the east coast of Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological agency said, causing...
made popular Nov 30 2010
The Economist has an interesting and frightening story about how geologists predict a massive earthquake for California a lot sooner than expected.
California is the...
made popular Oct 29 2010
Haitian authorities confirmed Saturday that five people have died and 57 were injured in the torrential rains that fell Friday in the nation’s capital and other...
made popular Sep 27 2010
The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Canterbury, in New Zealand’s south island on Saturday has made international headlines. Rather than rehashing what’s...
made popular Sep 6 2010
Christchurch in New Zealand has been hit by an earthquake measuring 7.4. at 04:32 Sat 4 September. After shocks are being experienced and there is no active tsunami...
made popular Sep 4 2010
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Iran on Friday has killed three people and wounded another 21, an Iranian news agency reported Saturday.
Iranian...
made popular Aug 30 2010
A strong 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Ecuador and parts of Peru Thursday, but its epicenter was deep underground in a remote Amazonian region and only one injury and...
made popular Aug 13 2010
As the world celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day, hundreds of families belonging to various indigenous communities are getting displaced in the North east region of...
made popular Aug 10 2010
If there is any hope for Haiti, you surely find it in the broad smile of six-year-old Telia Jacques.
She smiles despite her thin left leg that will not fully...
made popular Jul 23 2010
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Several earthquakes, the largest with a magnitude of 5.8, hit a rural region of southern Iran on Wednesday, the seismological centre said.
State media said there was...
made popular Jul 21 2010
Bill Clinton has promised to get tough with countries which pledged billions of dollars in aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti but have yet to deliver the money they...
made popular Jul 16 2010
Riding in a fake funeral procession with a hearse decorated with flower sprays and farewell messages, some 280 police officers slipped into the crowded La Legua slum in...
made popular Jul 8 2010
A strong earthquake rattled southern Mexico on Wednesday, sending people fleeing into the streets in Pacific coast towns and in the nation’s capital.
The U.S....
made popular Jun 30 2010
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted northern Peru early Wednesday.
According to Peru’s Geophysical Institute, the quake, which occurred at...
made popular May 19 2010
In a joint statement, the National Institute of Migration , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Navy reported that after having sailed for more than...
made popular May 10 2010
The magnitude-6.5 earthquake that rocked southern Peru’s Tacna region caused minor injuries and building collapses, and forced the cancellation of classes, officials...
made popular May 7 2010
Just a few words of more recent environmental disaster unfold in Mexican Gulf.
There is a significant difference between clean usage of natural resources and denying...
made popular May 3 2010
A powerful earthquake on Wednesday devastated China’s remote northwestern province of Qinghai killing 400 people as it toppled houses, created cracks in dams and...
made popular Apr 16 2010
Authorities evacuated mountain valleys, fearing more breakages.
made popular Apr 13 2010
The Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) has been examining whether the 7.2 earthquake which recently shook Mexicali on April 4,...
made popular Apr 12 2010
Indonesian authorities say they have no reports of casualties following a major 7.7-magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra.
The quake struck the Simeulue...
made popular Apr 7 2010
The past several months has seen several major earthquakes (and a minor one in Turkey, and maybe one elsewhere) in Haiti, Chile and Mexico.
The earthquake in Haiti...
made popular Apr 6 2010
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake has hit the Mexican peninsula of Baja California, killing two people and causing tremors as far away as Nevada.
Some people are still...
made popular Apr 5 2010
Donors have pledged nearly $10bn (£6.6bn) in aid to Haiti, more than double the amount requested by the country’s president after the January earthquake that...
made popular Apr 2 2010
Finland pledged 12.7 million euros on Wednesday to help rebuild Haiti, which was devastated by an earthquake in January. The plan includes an annual 2.5 million euro...
made popular Apr 1 2010
One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew to Miami on Monday, but the U.S. group’s leader remained in...
made popular Mar 9 2010
A strong earthquake has struck eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people, officials have said.
The 6.0-magnitude quake, centred on the village of Basyurt in Elazig...
made popular Mar 8 2010
Chile’s navy on Friday fired the commander of the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, the entity blamed for not issuing a tsunami warning after the magnitude-8.8...
made popular Mar 6 2010
A strong aftershock to Chile’s deadly earthquake provoked a brief panic in the city of Concepcion, but no tsunami warning was issued and no injuries or damage...
made popular Mar 4 2010
After the earthquake of 8.8 degrees which hit Chile, Raúl Valenzuela Wong, a researcher at the Department of Seismology, Institute of Geophysics of the Autonomous...
made popular Mar 4 2010
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In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI greets earthquake survivors during his visit to a tent-camp in the earthquake-ravaged area, in Onna, central Italy, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Benedict XVI visited...
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