By Brian Padden Jakarta 06 October 2009 A Muslim woman looks on as US military personnel build a field hospital in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, 06 Oct 2009 The United States today sent the first installment of a multi-million dollar assistance p...
By Brian Padden Padang, Indonesia 03 October 2009 Aerial image of buildings destroyed by earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, 03 Oct 2009 Foreign emergency rescue teams are working to reach areas in and around Indonesia's port city, Padang...
I was in a department store when the 331 earthquake happed. While the building was shaking, many people screamed. Lots of people rushed out of entrance to find a safer place. It was lucky that the shaking lasted only one min. but I couldnt recover f...
Pakistani officials say a magnitude 6.4 earthquake has killed at least 170 people in an impoverished area of southwest Pakistan and left thousands of others homeless. International aid groups in the region estimated at least 500 people have been kil...
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Did the pandas in Chinas Wolong Reserve know that Mondays earthquake was coming before it hit? A British tourist watching the pandas as the quake struck offered a keen observation. They had been really lazy and just eaten a little bit of bamboo and,...
On Monday, an earthquake in China measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale occurred along a fault where south Asia pushes against the Eurasian Landmass, smashing the Sichuan Plain into mountains, leading to the Tibetan highlands. In 1989, the Loma Prieta...
April 18, 1906, California's San Andreas Fault snaps, shaking San Francisco for nearly 60 terrifying seconds .When the trembling stops, the disaster is only beginning. Gas lines rupture, setting off massive fires, some 700 people die. Most of the ci...