Iran-Iraq earthquake: What happened and why A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the border region between Iraq and Iran on Sunday evening (November 12). This has been the deadliest quake in the world this year. This is what we know: What happened and where? Earthquake hit near Halabjah. At 9pm (18:18 GMT) local time in Iraq on Sunday, a…
Iran-Iraq earthquake death toll climbs to more than 400 Rescuers battle to find survivors trapped under collapsed buildings after the 7.3-magnitude quake Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Martin Farrer and agencies Monday 13 November 2017 17.16 GMTFirst published on Sunday 12 November 2017 23.38 GMT A powerful magnitude-7.3 earthquake has rocked the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, killing more than 400 people…
Iran-Iraq Earthquake Kills More Than 450 The Iranian city of Pol-e Zahab was particularly hard hit by the earthquake that struck on Sunday near the Iraqi border. CreditPouria Pakizeh/Iranian Students News Agency, via European Pressphoto Agency TEHRAN — Iranians dug through rubble in a frantic search for survivors on Monday, after a powerful earthquake struck near…
Mexico earthquake death toll rises to 361, 8 still missing in collapsed building Workers shovel papers and debris off the top of the rubble of a building that collapsed in last week’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake, at the corner of Gabriel Mancera and Escocia streets in the Del Valle neighborhood of Mexico City on Sept. 25.…
The magnitude-7.1 quake struck central Mexico at 1:14 pm local time on Tuesday. The epicenter was near the town of Raboso, about 76 miles southeast of Mexico City, according to U.S. Geological Survey. It was the second quake to strike in 12 days — a magnitude 8.1 earthquake, which was felt as far as Mexico City and Guatemala City,…
Two big earthquakes in Mexico last month were a tragic reminder that the country sits atop one of the most seismically active places on Earth. In particular, the magnitude 7.1 Puebla tremor on 19 September demonstrated Mexico’s vulnerability, causing severe damage in Mexico City and taking more than 270 lives. However, Mexico’s most lethal earthquake…
Death toll rises to 360 in Mexico earthquake Victor Cruz, AFP/Getty Images Rescuers and volunteers remove rubble and debris from a flattened building in search of survivors after a powerful quake in Mexico City on Sept. 19, 2017. A powerful earthquake shook Mexico City on Tuesday, causing panic among the megalopolis’ 20 million inhabitants on…
Mexico earthquake: How one girl came to represent hope – and distrust HOW OTHERS SEE IT For many Mexicans, the story of ‘Frida Sofía’ – who was supposedly stuck in earthquake rubble, but did not actually exist – has tapped into longstanding frustrations and distrust toward the government. SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 MEXICO CITY—Her little fingers wiggled amid the wreckage,…
How to help earthquake victims in Mexico An earthquake rattles Mexico City last week moments after an earthquake drill was held in the capital. Story highlights Mexico is dealing with the aftermath of earthquakes and a hurricane Search and relief efforts are underway, but more help is needed (CNN)Two more earthquakes shook southern Mexico over the…
This USGS map shows the epicentre of the earthquake. A magnitude 6.3 quake has hit Japan’s Kanto region, according to the Japanese Meteorological Agency.The area borders the Tōhoku region, where the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant had a devastating meltdown in 2011 after a mega earthquake caused a massive tsunami wave.Japan’s NHK news agency said the…
A search continued on Wednesday for survivors of a magnitude 7 earthquake that hit Sichuan province the night before as the local government of the region said the death toll had risen to 13, with 175 injured. Five Hong Kong people were earlier reported to be missing following the earthquake. But contact was made…
Rubble sits in front of a hotel after an earthquake struck Jiuzhaigou County in China’s Sichuan Province. (CNN)At least 19 people were killed and 247 more injured late Tuesday after a powerful earthquake struck a popular tourist area in southwest China, according to state media. Of those hurt, about 40 are in a serious…
By registering you agree to our T&Cs & Privacy Policy The epicentre of the first earthquake in southwestern Sichuan province on Tuesday was in the mountainous Jiuzhaigou county and reached a magnitude of 7.0, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported. The United States Geological Survey recorded a magnitude-6.5 quake west of the town of Yongle. At…
A 7.0-magnitude China earthquake has killed at least 19 people and injured 247 in China’s south-western province of Sichuan. Six tourists are thought to be among the dead, with up to 45,000 people evacuated from the area. A separate 6.6-magnitude tremor struck the remote area of XinJiang, injuring 32 people. More than 87,000 people were…
Haiti earthquake of 2010, large-scale earthquake that occurred January 12, 2010, on the West Indian island of Hispaniola comprising the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Most severely affected was Haiti, occupying the western third of the island. An exact death toll proved elusive in the ensuing chaos. The official Haitian government count was more than 300,000, but other…
Can there ever be complete closure for those who lose their loved ones? Perhaps “closure” is a rationale we force upon ourselves and others, so we can make the motion of closing one chapter and moving onto the next. But in reality, the next chapter is never so cleanly divided from the darkness of the past. The Sewol has…
The 2010 Earthquake Caused Lasting Damage Rosena Favecal, earthquake survivor, at the Red Cross medical observation tent inside General Hospital on February 8, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo by Kim Badawi/Getty Images A 7.3 magnitude earthquake ravaged Haiti on January 12, 2010. More than 230,000 people were killed. Another 300,000 were injured. More than 600,000…
One of the “Missing 9” bodies from the Sewol Ferry tragedy have finally been found by the Onsite Rescue Team. 1,123 days after the Sewol Ferry disaster, the remains of 17-year-old student Jo Eun Hwa have been discovered. They were found after the Sewol Ferry was lifted to the surface, three years after the tragedy. Jo…
A hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station number three reactor on March 14, 2011. Every person on Earth got the equivalent of an extra x-ray from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a new study claims. ‘We don’t need to worry,’ Nikolaos Evangeliou at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, whose team conducted…
On April 25, 2015, a powerful earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people and destroyed more than 824,000 homes in Nepal. Shortly after, the country’s Reconstruction Authority published a vision for “well-planned resilient settlements and a prosperous society”. But it is clearly falling short of that goal because of poor coordination between government and donors, a lack of understanding of…
A worker stands on the partially-submerged wreck of the Sewol ferry as it is lifted between two Chinese salvage vessels off the coast of the southern South Korean island of Jindo on March 23, 2017. PHOTO: AFP DONGGEOCHADO, SOUTH KOREA (AFP) – South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry emerged from the waters on Thursday (March 23), nearly three…
(CNN)Here’s a look at the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which struck January 12, 2010. The earthquake measured 7.0 magnitude. ■ The Toll: 220,000–316,000: estimates of the death toll vary 300,000: number of injured 1.5 million: people initially displaced 55,107: displaced people remain as of September 2016 3,978: number of schools damaged or destroyed by the earthquake ■ Response in Dollars: $13.34 billion: aid allocated…
Not forgotten. (EPA/Jeon Heon-kyun) December 09, 2016 South Korea’s parliament voted today by a large margin (Dec. 9) to impeach president Park Geun-hye, weeks after news of her connection to a shaman-like confidante who wielded immense influence came to light. The vote comes after six straight weekends of large-scale protests in Seoul and other…
Prapti Parajuli, 10, walks though the ruins of her former house on April 3. She now lives in a temporary house, which she shares with her mother Sabita, 31, and father Prakash, 31 in the Butal Area of Nala, Nepal.MIGUEL SAMPER/WATERAID It was a miracle, the Nepalis say, that the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, which registered…
Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless in the devastation of the earthquake and its aftermath Just over two years have passed since an aftershock rocked Nepal causing widespread panic and further loss of life after the devastating April 2015 earthquake. More than eight million people were affected by the two disasters that killed…
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, before the 2011 disaster. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ KEI On Monday, three former Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) executives were indicted for professional negligence contributing to deaths linked to the 2011 Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant disaster. The executives allegedly failed to take measures to defend the plant from…
Claude Prepetit, the chief seismologist at the Bureau of Mines, says the risk of a major earthquake remains as high today as it was on January 12, 2010, when more than 200,000 people died in a catastrophic event that leveled much of Port-au-Prince Six years after Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-seven earthquake, the…
Nepal earthquake of 2015, also called Gorkha earthquake, severe earthquake that struck near the city of Kathmandu in central Nepal on April 25, 2015. About 9,000 people were killed, many thousands more were injured, and more than 600,000 structures in Kathmandu and other nearby towns were either damaged or destroyed. The earthquake was felt throughout central and eastern Nepal, much of the Ganges River plain…
The South Korean Supreme Court sentenced the head of a ferry operator to seven years in jail for the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster. In this photo, relatives of victims onboard sunken ferry Sewol holding victims’ portraits attend a protest rally in central Seoul, April 5, 2015. Photo: Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji The Supreme Court of South Korea sentenced…
Over 160,000 people were evacuated from their homes in 2011 when a tsunami triggered a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors. What’s left behind is a 20km radius radioactive exclusion zone where very few residents dare to return. Photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski ventured into the zone in September and captured eerie scenes of life frozen in…
Nuclear husk: The destroyed No. 4 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant is seen in May 2012. | BLOOMBERG The International Atomic Energy Agency released its comprehensive — but mostly ignored — final report on Fukushima on Aug. 30. It blamed the March 2011 triple meltdowns at Tokyo…
Thousands of people lost their lives and thousands more were injured in a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal’s capital Kathmandu and its surrounding areas on 25 April. The earthquake was followed by a large number of aftershocks, including one that measured 7.3 on 12 May. Animated map: The earthquake and its 120 aftershocks Among the…
A man passes a damaged statue of Lord Buddha in Bhaktapur, Nepal, a day after an earthquake struck central Nepal on April 25. Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters It’s no mystery that Nepal — precariously perched atop two shifting geologic plates — is vulnerable to earthquakes. For the past decade, Nepal has been working…
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nearly one year ago, Nepal rumbled with a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that shattered daily life across the poor Himalayan nation. A series of powerful aftershocks that lasted for weeks compounded the damage and terrified the country’s 26.5 million citizens. Here are some statistics behind the disaster. Sources include the Nepalese…
View Photos A powerful earthquake struck Nepal Saturday, killing dozens of people. By Annie Gowen, Rama Lakshmi and Anup Kaphle April 26, 2015 It had been a pleasant Saturday morning, with families just sitting down to lunch and tourists thronging to Kathmandu’s Durbar Square when the temblor hit, a horrible rocking motion that seemed to go on without end. The…
Sewol Ferry Disaster: Justice for the Victims and their Families! Last week marked the one year anniversary of the Sewol Ferry Disaster. I had the opportunity to listen to two women speak who both lost their children that day. One of the woman’s children has yet to be recovered and returned to her family. The…
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On Jan. 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck Haiti, killing more than 160,000 and displacing close to 1.5 million people. Five year later, scars of the tragedy remain in Port-au-Prince, says photographer Gael Turine, who has spent the last 10 years photographing the country. “When you walk around the country’s…
when the massive magnitude 9 earthquake rumbled through Fukushima prefecture in March 2011, it swelled the seas and shook the earth. But long after the ground stopped trembling, the disaster has continued to fracture families like that of Yoshinobu Segawa. With radiation from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant still a concern, Segawa, 52,…
SEOUL, South Korea – The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April killing about 300 people apologized in court on Wednesday for his failure to rescue passengers in the country’s worst maritime disaster for decades. “I have committed a grave crime. I am sorry,” Lee Joon-seok, the 68-year-old captain, was quoted as saying…
South Korea’s Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won resigned on Sunday amid public anger over the sinking of a Sewol passenger ferry, admitting that he had not been up to the task of overseeing rescue operations for the 476 people on board. More than 300 people, many of them high-school students, have been confirmed dead or are…
ANSAN, South Korea – Teenagers who survived the South Korea ferry disaster told on Monday how classmates helped them float free as water flooded their cabins despite crew instructions to stay put even as the vessel sank. Six teens, whose names were withheld to protect their privacy, were giving testimony at the trial of…
A Japanese parliamentary panel has delivered a damning verdict after investigating the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant which followed an earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. Although such an event should have been predicted and planned for, the panel said, it found gaping holes in safety standards and emergency procedures. Here is an…
TOKYO — A year has now passed since the complete core meltdown of three boiling water reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima No.1 plant. Because of the limited information issued by the Japanese government – and its insistence that the disaster was only a result of the unanticipated magnitude of the earthquake and tsunami – the world…
New research confirms that extreme weather and deforestation can cause earthquakes. Photo: Marco Dormino/Wiki Commons If you ever doubted that human action was capable of profoundly effecting the Earth’s ecology, consider this: Scientists now believe that our mismanagement of the environment is quite literally causing the Earth to shake. New research has confirmed…
Six months after the 7.0 Haiti earthquake caused one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern times, the worse-case scenarios have been avoided. Yet tens of thousands still live in camps. PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI; AND MEXICO CITY — At 4:53 p.m., exactly six months ago today, Haiti was ravaged by a 7.0 earthquake that killed more than 230,000 people,…
The green line south of Port-au-Prince shows the fault line where the 7.0-magnitude quake was centred. The epicentre was 10 kilometres beneath the surface. (U.S. Geological Survey) Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti was especially destructive because its epicentre was close to a major city and its hypocentre, or focal point, was close to the Earth’s surface, says a Canadian…
