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The tsunami triggered by a strong earthquake near the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, has killed at least 40 people and left 380 others missing, officials said this Tuesday, 26. The death toll was expected to rise, since the authorities still seek victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The quake had a magnitude of 7.7 on the Richter scale. Witnesses [...]

The earthquake that devastated the capital of Haiti, killing about 300,000 people in January may have been caused by a fault different from what was previously considered the reason for the tremor. The pressure has accumulated could cause another concussion, experts said yesterday. Two articles published in the journal Nature Geoscience, while adopting [...]

The frequency of natural disasters around the world has seen an alarming increase. The scale at which the natural calamity strikes is also going up. Each disaster seems to be of a greater magnitude than the previous one. China had witnessed an earth quake of a very high magnitude which had resulted in many deaths and casualties because the debris could [...]

Increases to 67 the number of deaths due to an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale that struck the Chinese province of Qinghai (northwest) on the morning of Wednesday (14). The quake occurred at 7:49 a.m. local time. According to the Chinese Bureau of earthquakes, other people may be buried under the rubble. According to a spokesman of the [...]

Southern California and the Northern part of Mexico witnessed a powerful earthquake of 7.2 magnitude at 3.30 pm local time. The tremors were felt in Southern California, Arizona, Northern Mexico and even in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The epicenter of the earthquake is said to be 110 miles southeast of Tijuana, in Baja California, Mexico. Witness say [...]

On February 18, the United Nations had the largest fund-raising in its history, garnering $1.44 billion for emergency aid to Haiti in 2010. However, there has been a lot of criticism regarding the failure of coordination of such a humanitarian aid among the UN agencies and NGO recipients of these funds. Huge humanitarian needs remain unmet in spite [...]

J.T.College students have made the old Japanese practice of keeping a goldfish in a bowl to detect earthquakes, obsolete. They have invented an ‘Earthquake Detector Robot’, which can not avert the destruction, but at least can help in saving lives. The recent havoc caused by an earthquake in Haiti drove these students to device this robot. This [...]

The Haiti earthquake has left behind nearly one million orphans and these innocent kids who have lost parents and homes have become the most vulnerable targets for predatory child traffickers. There are shocking reports of a boy being offered for sale for mere $50 and poor desperate parents giving up their children to foreigners for better future. The [...]

International rescue teams have rescued some 130 survivors from under the rubbles and each one of them is a miracle survivor of the devastating earthquake which killed more than estimated 120,000 people, injured millions of others, destroyed entire city of Port-au-Prince and pushed Haiti to the brink of abyss. The most recent miracle survivor is 22 [...]

There is no denying the fact that all grandmas are versatile but Tressa Prisbrey known as “Grandma Prisbrey” beats the rest for creating the unbelievable Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village on her own, which is located at Simi Valley in California. Grandma Prisbrey took 25 long years to produce this creativity. What is even more fascinating [...]