Powerful Earthquakes Leave at Least 55 Dead, Destroy Buildings in Japan January 3, 2024 By Hiro Komae and Yuri Kageyama WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan have left at least 55 people dead...
Thousands Sleep Outside in Nepal After Earthquake Kills at Least 157 People and Destroys Most Houses November 6, 2023 By Binaj Gurubacharya KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Thousands of villagers in the mountains of northwestern Nepal slept outdoors Saturday night in the bitter...
Turkey Starts Work to Build Homes in 2 Earthquake-Hit Towns February 27, 2023 ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities on Friday said preliminary work has started to build housing for people left homeless...
Pakistan Quake Kills at Least 20, Injures Hundreds October 7, 2021 QUETTA, Pakistan — An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 hit southern Pakistan in the early hours of Thursday, killing 20 people,...
Stunned Iowa Town Residents Say They Will Rebuild After Tornado July 24, 2018 By DAVID PITT With the scope of the devastation still sinking in, business owners and residents of the central Iowa city of Marshalltown...
Taiwan Officials Detains Building Developer Where Quake Killed 14 March 5, 2018 Prosecutors in eastern Taiwan say a building complex that collapsed in an earthquake earlier this month, killing 14 people, was...
Grant to Prepare Nevada Rescuers for Big Disasters September 26, 2013 Southern Nevada is getting nearly $1.3 million in federal money for rescuers focused on pulling people out of collapsed buildings....
7.4 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Guatemala: AIR November 8, 2012 A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurred on Nov. 7, about 15 miles off the coastal town of Champerico in southwestern Guatemala,...