CHINA: BAILU, Sichuan, Jun 27 (IPS) - 1970 -- The height of the Cultural Revolution. A severe quake ripples through rural Chinas Yunnan province in the south. The response from the communist le...
When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the news media tapped into a un...
Officials in Guangdong province, the vast, densely populated economic powerhouse neighbouring Hong Kong, warned of a "black June" as high tides, rain and two converging swollen rivers threatened l...
Everything about the response of the Chinese government to the massive 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province shows its ability and willingness to mobilize enormous resources and people-powe...
ScienceDaily (Jun. 13, 2008) When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of th...
Last month's massive earthquake in central China likely could not have been predicted, a leading American seismologist said Friday. Walter Mooney, the U.S. Geological Survey's top expert on seismi...
A controversial theory that may gain traction in light of new findings described in a leaked NASA memo about the May 12 earthquake in China's Sichuan province. As pressure builds before an earthqu...
In a year that is not yet half over, 2008 has already written itself into the record books for extremes of hot and cold, rain and drought, tornadoes and floods and earthquakes. Our planet Earth ha...
HONG KONG - Last week presented a puzzle of irreconcilable images and memories in this city. With all the photos and television footage of the devastating May 12 Sichuan earthquake still seared in...
CHENGDU, China (AP) - A top Chinese Communist party official is declaring a "decisive victory" after solders were able to blast away debris blocking a huge earthquake-formed lake. More than half o...
CHENGDU, China (June 10) -- Water churned through a drainage channel and engulfed empty towns Tuesday after Chinese soldiers blasted away the debris that kept an earthquake-formed lake threatening...
June 10, 2008 -- Hundreds of miles above the Earth isn't the first place you'd expect to detect an impending earthquake, but that's where NASA and one U.K. company are looking. The project is base...
(AP Photo)A young cyclone survivor looks on after receiving a food donation from monks 10 km (6 miles) outside of Labuta, Myanmar, Monday June 9, 2008. Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar on May 2-3, 2008,...
CHENGDU, China (June 10) -- Water poured from a brimming lake formed by China's massive earthquake down a manmade spillway Tuesday, as towns downstream went on alert for possible flooding should t...
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