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…