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The nation’s emergency preparedness policies after a devastating quake in 1999 help to explain relatively small numbers of fatalitiesFor Nina Huang, it was the shaking that jolted her awake. “The first thing I did when I woke up was to hold the cupboar…
Read MoreCCTV footage shows staff rush to hold on to wobbling cots when an earthquake struck Taiwan. Surveillance video caught the moment the earthquake hit the Ma Cherie maternity centre in Taipei. Taiwan is still assessing the aftermath of the quake – given a…
Read MoreDrone footage shows mine workers trapped by landslides triggered by a strong earthquake in Taiwan.A 7.2-magnitude quake rocked the island, killing at least nine people. The number injured has exceeded 1,000, though dozens of workers who were heading to…
Read MoreTaiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years has killed nine and injured at least 900. The moment it started was captured on video across the country.The quake, given a magnitude of 7.2 by Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency and 7.4 by the US, caused bu…
Read MoreBoy, five, among 126 people dead, after boiling water spilled on him during Monday’s 7.6 magnitude quakeA woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major earthquake hit the region, killing at leas…
Read MoreFootage from 1 January shows Wajima residents running from a landslide after a deadly earthquake struck the Japanese city in the Ishikawa prefecture. The full extent of damage and casualties remains unclear four days after the quake, which is already t…
Read MoreJapanese prime minister Fumio Kishida says the country is facing a ‘battle against time’ to find people affected by a series of major earthquakes that reportedly killed at least 48 people, injured dozens and sparked fires that destroyed homes.Police an…
Read MoreTemperatures are as low as -16C in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, where the magnitude-6.2 quake struck on MondayThe death toll from China’s earthquake has risen to 134, with almost 1,000 people injured, as rescuers dig through rubble in below freezing co…
Read MoreAt least 116 people have been killed and about 500 injured in an earthquake in China’s north-west Gansu and Qinghai provinces, state media has reported. The strong, shallow earthquake struck shortly before midnight, sending residents fleeing outside, i…
Read MoreOfficials say at least 126 killed and more than 500 injured after 6.2-magnitude quake in Gansu and Qinghai provincesCold weather is hampering rescue efforts after an earthquake in China’s Gansu and Qinghai provinces that killed at least 126 people and …
Read MoreThe portable unit, comprising mini cubes of medical equipment, enables surgeons to be operating within an hour, designers claimIndia has designed and built a “flatpack” field hospital that can be flown to a disaster area by helicopter and assembled fas…
Read MoreShopping mall ceiling collapse among reported damage after earthquake of 6.7 magnitude hits Mindanao regionThe death toll from a strong earthquake off the southern Philippines rose to five on Saturday as authorities reported more casualties across two …
Read MoreWhile the earthquake killed at least 153 people, fears are rising for 12,000 families left without shelter in freezing temperaturesEarly on Saturday morning, Haris Bishwakarma learned he had become the sole guardian of his eight-year-old sister. His pa…
Read MoreRescue workers in Nepal began digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their bare hands on Saturday, searching for survivors after the country’s worst earthquake in eight years killed 157 people and shook buildings as far away as Delhi.The 5…
Read MoreMagnitude-6.3 earthquake struck near Herat on Saturday, with hundreds of houses reported destroyedThe death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan has risen sharply to more than 2,000 people, according to a Taliban spokesperson, as re…
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