[ad_1] Relief officials handed out water, blankets, food and other supplies. Search dogs joined military personnel and firefighters trying to find dozens of people who are thought to be trapped,…
Tag: quakes
Watch: Entire road split in Iceland after quakes
[ad_1] Huge cracks could be seen on a road in the Icelandic town of Grindavik after it was hit by earthquakes. Thousands of people have been evacuated, as officials fear…
Powerful earthquake shakes west Afghanistan a week after devastating quakes hit same region
[ad_1] A new 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on Sunday, following several tremors in the region since the beginning of the month, including a devastating earthquake that killed more than…
Race to find survivors after deadly quakes strike Afghanistan
[ad_1] Aid agencies and NGOs have appealed to the international community for help but only a handful of countries have publicly offered support, neighboring China and Pakistan are among them.…
Japan’s century of efforts to tame quakes through design
[ad_1] TOKYO: Takashi Hosoda was in a Tokyo skyscraper when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck on March 11, 2011, but the trained architect was “not particularly worried,” as modern Japanese buildings…
Dutch Government End Gas Extraction After Damaging Quakes
[ad_1] THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Extraction from one of the world’s largest natural gas fields will end in October, the Dutch government announced Friday, turning off a lucrative source…
Dutch to shut Europe’s biggest gas field after quakes | Business
[ad_1] The Groningen gas field opened in 1965. The Netherlands said it would end production of Europe’s largest gas field on 1 October, after years of earthquakes. Residents near the…
Boom and bust: Quakes define legacy of Turkey’s ‘Erdonomics’
[ad_1] Fury over the scale of the 1999 disaster fed into broader economic discontent that ultimately propelled Recep Tayyip Erdogan to power. The Turkish leader now hopes a similar mix…
Fear of more quakes haunts Turkish rescuers trying to save survivors from the wreckage
[ad_1] Gaziantep, an ancient Turkish city badly damaged by the massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 2,600 people in the country and in neighboring Syria, was paralyzed Monday by widespread…