Building homes while preserving knowledge and heritage following
Afghanistan's earthquakes
Related Articles
-
‘As well prepared as they could be’: how Taiwan kept death toll low in massive earthquake
The nation’s emergency preparedness policies after a devastating quake in 1999 help to explain relatively small numbers of fatalitiesFor Nina Huang, it was the shaking that jolted her awake. “The first thing I did when I woke up was to hold the cupboard next to my daughter. I was afraid that it might fall down on her,” she recalled. Then her phone buzzed with a warning about a tsunami.The biggest fear for Huang and her husband was that the bridge connecting their waterfront village of Yanliao to...
-
Taiwan earthquake death toll climbs to 10, with hundreds still stranded
At least 11 people were missing and some 705 people were stranded or trapped, authorities said.
-
Taiwan earthquake rescuers face threat of landslides, rockfalls; death toll at 12
Rescuers in Taiwan faced the threat of further landslides and rockfalls in Friday's search for a dozen people still missing from this week's earthquake, as the death toll rose to 12 while some of those stranded were brought to safety. Searchers discovered two more bodies after Wednesday's quake of magnitude