Tag Archives: quake

Rescuers dug with their bare hands Monday through the debris of buildings felled by an earthquake that killed more than 430 people in the border region of Iran and Iraq, with nearly all the casualties occurring in an area rebuilt after their ruinous 1980s war. CBC | World News

A NEW earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale has struck Mexico following a killer quake that struck the country last week killing 295 people. Daily Express :: News Feed

Suddenly homeless Mexicans relying on the kindness of strangers to survive. Some are sleeping in their cars outside their homes, “So people don’t rob us of the little we have” CBC | World News

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck off northern California in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey says CBC | World News

Survivors are still being pulled from rubble in Mexico City as rescue operations stretch into a fourth day Friday, spurring hope among desperate relatives gathered at the sites of buildings collapsed by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. CBC | World News

A delicate effort to reach a young girl buried in the rubble of her school stretched into a daylong vigil for Mexico, much of it broadcast across the nation as rescue workers still struggled in rain and darkness early Thursday trying to pick away unstable debris and reach her. CBC | World News

The soft soil that lines the ancient lake bed that Mexico City is built on amplified the shaking from Tuesday’s earthquake and increased its destructive force, seismologists say. CBC | World News

A LARGE earthquake has hit Vanuatu, a small Pacific island nation to the east of Australia. Daily Express :: News Feed

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and leaving many dead or injured. The quake has killed at least 225 people, nearly half of them in Mexico City, 32 years to the day after a devastating 1985 quake. CBC | World News

Desperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search on Wednesday for dozens of children feared buried beneath a Mexico City school, one of hundreds of buildings destroyed by the country’s most lethal earthquake in a generation. CBC | World News