With doomsday-like scenes plaguing Japan over the past few days following devastating floods in Joso City in Ibaraki Prefecture which washed hundreds of homes away, a rattling earthquake in Tokyo Bay which rocked the capital and yet another volcano erupting Monday, experts and citizens alike are bracing themselves for more of nature's fury.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Thursday that some 2.8 million of the Nepalese affected by a devastating earthquake continue to need vital humanitarian assistance two months after the quake.
An independent investigation jointly conducted by two well-known U.S.-based media organizations has indicated that U.S. aid money for reconstruction of Haiti in the wake of the deadly 2010 earthquake has been poorly managed.
The two successive strong earthquakes and subsequent major aftershocks that hit Nepal in the last few days should serve as a wake up call for Bangladesh, which sits on fault lines and thus prone to tremors, according experts here.
The death toll from Saturday's earthquake in Nepal has climbed to 4,264 people, including 20 mountaineers, and more than 7,000 others were injured, said the National Emergency Operation Center of Nepal's Home Ministry on Tuesday morning.
Visitors to Chen Zongqiang's new home are impressed by the sausages and bacon that are hung in his spacious, villalike, two-story house.
Twenty people were injured after an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted Yongshan County in southwest China's Yunnan Province at 6:07 a.m. on Sunday, local authorities said.
In the hills surrounding the site of the recent earthquake, ripe peppers hang heavy from tree limbs, waiting to be picked. A bamboo basket sits abandoned next to a collapsed clay farmhouse, its owner nowhere to be found.
The Japanese government on Tuesday agreed on quantifiable means of heightening the nation's disaster preparedness, spanning increasing the number of earthquake- resistant homes and buildings, to boosting the number of emergency services deployable in disaster situations.
Government officials here said the impact of the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit the island- provinces of Bohol and Cebu in central Philippines on Oct. 15 has been negligible even if the total number of fatalities has risen to 188.
To Abdul Qadir, 53, there is nothing to live for after he pulled out the bodies of his family members from the rubbles of their one-storey brick house that collapsed in a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province earlier this week.
The death toll of a powerful earthquake that hit Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan on Tuesday afternoon has risen to 348 as 20 more bodies were recovered by rescue teams in the quake-hit areas, local media quoted an official as saying on Thursday.
Two people died and 21 others were injured, including 3 severely, in an earthquake that shook Taiwan's Nantou County on Sunday afternoon, according to the island's disaster response authorities.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang ordered all possible measures to be taken to rescue victims and minimize deaths and injuries, after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the southwestern Sichuan Province Saturday morning.
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