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JODI RIWONO, survivor of an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale that struck near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, killing thousands of people and flattening entire villages...
Early on the morning of April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale tore through the California coast. The quake, which had its epicenter near San Francisco, resulted in as many as 2,800 deaths and caused an estimated $400 million in damages when it hit 100 years ago yesterday. Cambridge may be across the country from the site of that earthquake, but Harvard has suffered its share of seismic events as well. In the mid 1700s, two earthquakes with magnitudes of at least 6.0 shook the city; since then, several lower-intensity quakes have...
This year, on Oct. 8, three days after Khan took office as mayor, an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude on the Richter scale slammed into the Himalayas, killing more than 73,000 people in Pakistan. Batagram was one of the worst-hit towns. That morning, Khan had strolled up a dirt path to visit his mother's grave when the force of the quake hurled him to his knees. "I thought it was doomsday, that the earth would open and swallow me up," he says. "The houses on the ridge--they were exploding...
...idea I was living with a zombie all this time,” says Katalina Richter ’07, Shapiro-Deisenhouse’s roommate. “But now that I think about it, she really is a graveyard smash...
...virtually numb with grief. The 45-year-old laborer may never recover from the despair that overcame him Saturday, when he watched the two houses he built with his own hands crumble and bury Sohil alive as a cataclysmic earthquake devastated Kashmir. The temblor, 7.6 on the Richter scale, recognized no borders. There is yet no news from Qumayon?s aunt and uncle in Muzzafarabad. The indications from Pakistan are not good: 70% of Muzzafarabad, a city of 100,000 people, may have been leveled...