Word: temblor
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...fear that their few remaining possessions will be looted. And though it rained for much of last week, many prefer to sleep outdoors under tarpaulins in paddy fields or on soggy mattresses along the side of the road in case another quake strikes. Indeed, in the days following the temblor, nearly 500 aftershocks were recorded...
...streets and rushed for high ground, fearing another tsunami like the one that killed some 170,000 Indonesians in December 2004. "Everybody, young and old, ran up the hill for safety," says Ismambandiah, a middle-aged woman caught in the quake. The fatal waves never came, but the temblor wreaked havoc on Yogyakarta and surrounding communities, killing at least 3,000 and leaving tens of thousands more injured and homeless. It is the country's worst natural disaster since the tsunami. The most horrific damage occurred in the district of Bantul, south of the city, where the tremor pulverized hundreds...
...streets and rushed for high ground, fearing another tsunami like the one that killed some 170,000 Indonesians in December 2004. "Everybody, young and old, ran up the hill for safety," says Ismambandiah, a middle-aged woman caught in the quake. The fatal waves never came, but the temblor wreaked havoc on Yogyakarta and surrounding communities, killing at least 3,000 and leaving tens of thousands more injured and homeless. It is the country's worst natural disaster since the tsunami...
Khan groped his way down to the hospital. It was destroyed, hammered into countless pieces by the temblor. Meanwhile, thousands were converging in the street, carrying and dragging people with terrible injuries, searching for a hospital that had ceased to exist. Using about $200,000 of his own cash, Khan says, he bought all the medicine and bandages he could find, grabbed anyone who had first-aid training and set up a tent hospital to tend to the hordes of wounded staggering in. For the worst injured, he arranged a makeshift ambulance service to ferry them over the mountains...
...Japanese government announced that 20 condos and one hotel in and around Tokyo designed by architect Hidetsugu Aneha did not meet Japan's strict earthquake-resistance standards. Thirteen buildings, it said, were so poorly protected that they were unlikely to withstand a medium-strength temblor. Most shocking of all: Aneha's work failed to meet codes not due to error or incompetence, but because he knowingly skimped on materials like reinforced steel and then fabricated safety data to indicate projects were in compliance. Aneha, who admitted in a press conference to faking the data, said he had buckled under pressure...