The tsunami that struck Indonesia on December 23, 2018, has claimed around 430 lives and left thousands injured. While the event has raised concerns over how to prepare for such natural disasters, the volcano that caused the tsunami is said to have shrunk as a result of the explosion. The tsunami in Indonesia Being located ...
Videos have revealed the terrifying moment a major earthquake hit Alaska on November 30, 2018. The center of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake was just north of Anchorage, a city of some 300,000 people. The quake hit at 8:29 a.m. local time while it was still dark in the snow-covered state. Alaska has only six hours ...
Flames have been eating away at California’s forest landscape since October 8. Thousands of people have had to be evacuated, away from their homes, most of which were located in the center of the state’s well-known wine country. While California wildfires are nothing new to its residents, this season’s fires are unique. The “Camp Fire” ...
Typhoon Mangkhut swept over Hong Kong leaving destruction in its wake. From my home, it looked like a total disaster. Many trees were uprooted. From small ones to huge, old trees, from the south part of Hong Kong all the way to Repulse Bay, all you could see was limbs that had been torn from ...
I remember September 11. It was no ordinary day or one that I could say, looking back, was like any other. The world, like I had never experienced before, came closer, became as one. I was on my way back home that day waiting for a train when my father called me. “A plane flew ...
The amount of rain that Hurricane Harvey recently (end of August 2017) pored down on Houston was phenomenal. But what this Hurricane Harvey catastrophe tells us about the way we build cities in the age of climate change goes far beyond Texas. The accumulation of extreme precipitation and floods is turning into a new trend, ...
They say everything is big in Texas. This must include big hearts as well. Examples of heroism and kindness were seen aplenty as Texans came together in the southeast of the Lone Star state to help those affected by Hurricane Harvey, the worst rainfall disaster in U.S. history. The death toll of the disaster has ...
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