A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake has struck in the Molucca Sea region northeast of Indonesia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake, which hit early Thursday local time, had depth of nearly 22 miles and its epicenter was 79 miles west-northwest of Ternate, Indonesia, the USGS said. The U.S. tsunami warning system said tsunami … Read more
Stacy Librandi was new to disaster relief when she arrived in Haiti in 2010. She walked onto the Port-au-Prince airfield and looked out at the sea of people in front of her. It looked like its own city: a crowd of a thousand buzzing and sweltering in the Caribbean heat, living in tents and haphazardly … Read more
Fifteen years ago, on March 11, 2011, the fourth-largest recorded earthquake in history struck Japan’s Pacific Coast, triggering a 128-foot tsunami wave that swallowed villages whole and triggered the biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Nearly 20,000 people died, 500,000 were forced to evacuate, 138,000 buildings were destroyed, and the country suffered the most expensive disaster … Read more