Police and other rescue workers pulled a woman in her 90s out from under a collapsed house on Saturday in western Japan, five days after a powerful earthquake struck the region, killing more than 126 people. Few details were available, but video footage showed a fleet of rescuers surrounding the …
Read More »Update: Five Coast Guard crew flying out to help quake victims are killed in Japan plane crash
Five people on board a Coast Guard aircraft died after a collision with a Japan Airlines plane at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan’s capital, on Tuesday, the Japanese transport minister said. Five people on board a Coast Guard aircraft died after a collision with a Japan Airlines plane at Haneda …
Read More »Survivors Face Subzero Temperatures After Quake Kills Over 120 in China
An earthquake killed at least 120 people in a mountainous area of northwestern China, officials and state media said on Tuesday, crumpling buildings while residents slept inside and sending people rushing into a frigid night. Rescuers were searching for survivors in rural Jishishan County in Gansu Province, the epicenter of …
Read More »‘We’re ready to help. It’s up to them’: France on Morocco quake aid offer
More than 2,100 people have died since the magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit Morocco on Friday. France’s foreign minister has said it is up to Morocco to decide whether to seek French aid to deal with the fallout of its deadliest earthquake in more than 60 years. When asked why Morocco …
Read More »For a Woman Bereaved in Quake, First Came Shock and Then a Wail.
First came the news, then shock and then a scream. In the small town of Amizmiz in southern Morocco on Sunday, a woman let out a piercing cry as she absorbed the information that her two brothers had been killed in the devastating earthquake. More than 2,000 people were killed …
Read More »Watch Buildings collapse and people run for their lives after Magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Turkey, two weeks after massive quake killed thousands (videos)
A magnitude 6.4 aftershock struck Turkey on Monday, February 20, two weeks after a massive earthquake left tens of thousands of people dead in Turkey and Syria. The quake struck Defne, a town in Turkey’s southern Hatay province, near the Syrian border, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) …
Read More »Why Did a Turkish City Withstand the Quake When Others Crumbled?
For miles around the small Turkish city of Erzin, the earth is shattered and buildings are razed, towns and cities turned into tombs of concrete by last week’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake. But Erzin still stands, an oasis of stability near the Mediterranean, where the question of why the city weathered the …
Read More »Three survivors pulled alive from earthquake rubble in Turkey, more than 248 hours after quake | CNN
CNN — At least three more people, including two minors, have been incredibly pulled alive from the rubble of a devastating earthquake, 10 days after it struck parts of Turkey and Syria. A 17-year-old Aleyna Ölmez was dubbed the “miracle girl” when she was pulled alive from the rubble in …
Read More »‘What day is it?’ woman asks rescuers, as 77-year-old also pulled from rubble more than a week after Turkey quake | CNN
CNN — A confused woman asked her rescuers “What day is it?” when pulled alive from the rubble of last week’s earthquake after 228 hours, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu reported Wednesday, as another woman aged 77 was also rescued from the debris. More than nine days after a powerful …
Read More »Syria approves aid delivery to rebel-held areas affected by quake
Approval for humanitarian deliveries to rebel-held northwest could speed up help for millions of affected people. The Syrian government has approved the delivery of humanitarian aid to areas not under its control in the quake-hit rebel-held northwest of the country, a move that could speed up the arrival of help …
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