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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.
My Japanese...
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Japan is facing such continuous tragedies and even in such disastrous situations “Japanese” shown the rest of the World “How to tackle and...
made popular Mar 18 2011
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
We have all seen the vivid and shocking camera footage of the disasters in Japan. The earthquake, the tsunami and now the nuclear threat. And my heart breaks for the...
made popular Mar 18 2011
We have had a plethora of natural disasters the past few years, but what just happened in Japan could turn into one of the worst to date. Not only did the country...
made popular Mar 18 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
LANGSA, Indonesia — Six years after a powerful tsunami swept more than 200,000 to their death, Titik Yuniarti still clings to hope at least one of her children is...
made popular Dec 23 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
The non-profit group Un Techo para Chile (A Roof for Chile) said Monday that it has erected 18,412 temporary dwellings for some of the hundreds of thousands of people...
made popular May 21 2010
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera Monday announced a housing plan involving 2.543 billion U.S. dollars for families affected by the Feb. 27 earthquake.
The...
made popular Mar 30 2010
After being sworn in as president of Chile on Thursday, Sebastian Pinera worked into night discussing measures with cabinet members for recovery from the 8.8-magnitude...
made popular Mar 13 2010
The strongest tremors felt since the Feb. 27 8.8-magnitude earthquake cut short the ceremony where Michelle Bachelet handed over the reigns of the country to Chile’s...
made popular Mar 12 2010
Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera takes office as Chile’s new president on Thursday, tasked with rebuilding the country after one of the worst earthquakes...
made popular Mar 11 2010
Landslides and a tsunami triggered by a quake in the South Pacific’s Solomon Islands have left some 1,000 people homeless, say officials.
Aftershocks continued...
made popular Jan 6 2010
Tragedies are often blessing in disguise as they enable us to have interaction with our flaws. In Tsunami’s case, it’s clear that our disturbed relation...
made popular Jan 4 2010
There are a million questions one could ask of the woman sitting on the edge of a hospital bed in southern Sri Lanka, but for now only one of them matters: is she Padma...
made popular Dec 16 2009
A powerful underwater earthquake rocked western Indonesia Wednesday, toppling buildings, bringing down bridges, starting fires and sending panicked residents out of...
made popular Sep 30 2009
A British toddler was among up to 82 people killed when a deadly tsunami struck the South Pacific islands of Samoa and American Samoa early this morning.
Villages and...
made popular Sep 30 2009
I received a call from a scientist friend in Port Blair early November this year. As soon as I picked up my phone, he asked me a question he had asked me dozens of...
made popular Dec 26 2008
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Since time and ages the number 13 has proven to be unlucky around the world for some reason,but now it seems that its place of being unlucky would be replaced.It would...
made popular Nov 30 2008
since the time Adam and Eve was punished to come to earth from heaven human life has taken a drastic turnaround.From being nude to wearing clothes and then again at the...
made popular Aug 30 2008
The world has seen some major disasters over last few weeks. First was the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (I don’t really know why do they come up with sweet feminine...
made popular May 17 2008
The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000...
made popular May 13 2008
Global hunger is now affecting around 830 million people across the world, according to the United Nations World Food Program.
The ‘Hunger Hot Spots’ of...
made popular Nov 20 2006
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Acehnese sit down side by side inside the tsunami memorial and museum built to commemorate the 2004 Asian Tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009.
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