Word: temblors
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...temblor took about 55,000 lives and has left as many as 3 million people homeless. Relief efforts have been severely hampered by the remoteness of many places hit by the quake, and by the lack of money for aid and assistance. The U.N. said last week that, with winter blizzards just weeks away, it urgently needed $550 million to avert a second wave of deaths from cold, yet had only received one-fifth of that...
...first dreadful stirrings of the earthquake, trapping over a hundred kids inside. Their mangled bodies would slowly emerge, cradled in the arms of the rescue workers. The girls had worn green blouses, probably ironed that morning by their mothers; the boys wore gray. That night, three days after the temblor, the French managed to pull a five-year-old from the rubble. It appeared that the boy, Nawfiz Shah, suffered only mild injuries on his face and hands. But when I visited him the following day, living in a tent with his mother, I learned that Nawfiz was still...
...Thought Doomsday Had Fallen" At least 18,000 are dead after the military faultline in the India-Pakistan rivalry became the epicenter of a devastating temblor...
...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...
...Thought Doomsday Had Fallen" At least 18,000 are dead after the military faultline in the India-Pakistan rivalry became the epicenter of a devastating temblor...