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Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana campus is currently home to about 400 students affected by natural disasters and other crises.
Development & Education
30 years after a devastating earthquake, this school in India continues a legacy of support for survivors
building that was destroyed
Natural disasters
Life returns to Antakya, a city nearly leveled by earthquakes in southern Turkey
A lab worker removes crane hoist from a load of rebar used to construct full-scale buildings and bridge spans that are then pushed to the limit in field tests.
Infrastructure
This ‘earthquake lab’ is designing buildings to withstand natural disasters
Zehra Kurukafa walks past a destroyed house in the village of Polat, Turkey, Feb. 12, 2023.
Natural disasters
Turkey earthquake survivors face despair, as rescues wane
Firefighters and rescue teams search for people in a destroyed building, in Adana, southern Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023.
Natural disasters
How to support relief efforts in Turkey and Syria after deadly quakes
Men remove debris as they search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Feb. 6, 2023.
Natural disasters
After deadly quake in Turkey, rescue teams struggle to help amid frigid temps
People and rescue teams try to reach trapped residents inside collapsed buildings in Adana, Turkey, Feb. 6, 2023.
Natural disasters
Powerful quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 2,300
A man is shown without a shirt on standing next to a woman holding a small child with the rubble of their home in the background.
Natural disasters
Haiti’s earthquake victims are still overwhelming hospitals
A woman is show with her face in her hands and crouched down with a man next to her with his hand on her shoulder.
Top of The World
Brazil struggles with new COVID-19 strain; Entire Dutch government resigns over child welfare scandal; Deadly earthquake hits Indonesia
A crowd of people are shown standing outside, many holding cell phones, with classical European buildings in the distance.
Natural disasters
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits Croatia
Two people are pictured from behind overlooking a scene of devastation
Natural disasters
10 years later, Haiti earthquake survivor reflects on broken promises and resilience
A man is shown throwing a piece of wood from the ruins of a house in in Palu, Indonesia.
Indonesia’s double disaster exposes earthquake lessons not learned
A woman wearing a head covering looks out on the ocean after a tsunami in Indonesia's Sulawesi Island..
Environment
Indonesia steps up hunt for survivors as quake toll passes 1,200
a woman and her child
Death toll from Indonesian quake reaches 832, is expected to climb
A woman, a child and man spread their arms out like airplanes on the roof of a building as they pose for a silly family photograph. Behind them are dark storm clouds.
Lifestyle
A year after quake shattered their home and lives, this family rebuilds
Foreign tourists carry their backpacks and rollaboards across the sandy beach after an earthquake hit Lombok island in Indonesia August 6, 2018.
Tourists flee Indonesia’s Lombok island after earthquake kills dozens
People react after an earthquake shook buildings in Mexico City
Development
A long-lasting earthquake in southern Mexico rocks buildings and nerves across the nation
Corinne Joachim Sanon went back to Haiti to start a business, and she located her business, Askanya Chcolatiers, in the house where her grandmother grew up.
Business
Eight years after the earthquake, a different taste of Haiti
Mexico City
Environment
When disaster hits home: The Mexico City quake one month on
A man drives an oxcart past the rubble of what was once a traditional-style home in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca.
Environment
In Oaxaca, thousands of aftershocks mean no one’s getting much sleep
Moving day, Mexico City
Environment
A nervous Mexico City struggles to recover from the earthquake, while engineers canvass the city for damage
Members of Israeli and Mexican rescue teams gesture for a minute of silence after retrieving a dead body from a collapsed building after an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico, on Sept. 21, 2017.
Environment
Hundreds of Mexico City buildings may now be uninhabitable
A person sits on the roof of a little house while looking at the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Mexico City, Mexico September 20, 2017.
Environment
Desperate search for survivors after powerful earthquake in Mexico
A family sits outside their house destroyed by the earthquake that struck the southern coast of Mexico late on Thursday, in Ixtaltepec, Mexico.
Conflict
Thousands of people are homeless after Mexico’s worst earthquake in a century
A damaged wall and a smashed vehicle are pictured after an earthquake in Mexico City on Sept. 8, 2017.
Environment
Mexico’s deadly earthquake was its strongest in 100 years
People gather on a street after an earthquake hit Mexico City.
Environment
At least 15 are dead as a powerful earthquake strikes Mexico
Haiti
Conflict
Here are the real lessons from flawed responses to Haiti’s disasters
earthquake on Christmas in Chile
Environment
A strong earthquake hits Chile, no deaths or major damage reported
Woman with tool in front of damaged building
Development
Nepali immigrants who came to the US after the 2015 earthquake can stay a little longer
A rescue worker and a dog search among debris following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy, August 27, 2016.
Arts
Italy’s art historians, firefighters and special police scamble to rescue quake-stricken Amatrice’s heritage
Environment
Scientists on trial for not warning about earthquake
Nepali immigrants registerf or TPS at a clinic at highschool in Queens organized by Adhikaar last March.
Global Politics
With earthquake recovery back home stalled, Nepalis push for renewed protections in the US
24-year-old Prapti Tamang's two-story house was destroyed during the 2015 earthquake.
Development
Portraits from Nepal: Survivors struggle to rebuild a year after the deadly quake
Shreesha Duwal
Development
A feisty 12-year-old shows us what life in Nepal is like after the earthquake
Taiwan Looks to the Future Amid Earthquake Recovery
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The coastal Japanese city of Ishinomaki, before the Tsunami... and today.
Development
In search of an owner… our reporter tracks down a Japanese diver nearly devastated by the 2011 tsunami
A house and vehicles damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as seen in Ishinomaki, northern Japan.
Environment
A decade after Katrina, one researcher looks for global lessons in its aftermath
Earthquakes in Nepal are only the start of the country's problems
Health
Months after deadly quakes, Nepal’s problems are only multiplying
Today’s Takeaways: Hope in Nepal, Tension in Baltimore, and Courage Among the Trans Community
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Today’s Takeaways: Hope in Nepal, Tension in Baltimore, and Courage Among the Trans Community
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A girl holding a candle takes part in a candlelight vigil, a month after the April 25 earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 25, 2015.
Global Politics
‘It’s a race against time’ to help Nepal’s earthquake survivors, warns one aid worker
Haitian author Dimitry Elias Léger.
Books
His topic: A president, the first lady, her lover — and an earthquake
An injured woman walks toward a hospital soon after an earthquake struck Sankhu, Nepal, on May 12, 2015. The 7.3-magnitude quake killed more than two dozen people in Nepal and neighboring states.
Development
Dozens more die after another major quake hits Nepal
Earthquake survivor Krishna Kumari Khadka is rescued from a collapsed building in Kathmandu by French, Israeli and Norwegian rescue teams six days after the April 25, 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
Development
Five things the international community shouldn’t do after a disaster
Dr Andrew Trotter at work at the Tribhuvan University Hospital after the earthquake
Development
How one American doctor is helping Nepal’s earthquake victims
The Living Goddess, known as a Kumari Devi, is worshipped in Nepal by Hindus and Buddhists alike. Each Kumari Devi is chosen at a very young age. Samita, the girl in this picture, is no longer a Kumari Devi. Since the photo was taken, she started mentruat
Belief
Do Nepalis pray to a child goddess after an earthquake?
A Nepalese army personnel stands in front of a collapsed temple in Bhaktapur, Nepal a day after the April 25 earthquake rocked the country. The quake devastated the heavily crowded Kathmandu valley, killing thousands and triggering a deadly avalanche on M
Environment
Earthquakes create as well as destroy
A mother with her son by Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage site, one day after the earthquake destroyed several temples.
Development
Images from Nepal show a people that are hurting
Nepali students at the University of Massachusetts Boston work on their fundraising plan for earthquake relief efforts
Development
Nepali students in Boston channel their grief into fundraising efforts for earthquake relief
An injured boy is taken to a ward inside a hospital after an earthquake in Siliguri
Development
How to help Nepal: 10 vetted charities doing relief work following the earthquakes
Children play near a Geiger counter that monitors radiation at a kindergarten about 30 miles from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The government is increasingly pushing families displaced by the disaster to return to their home
Environment
Some of Japan’s ‘nuclear refugees’ can finally go home — but they don’t want to
Ishinomaki, Japan following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Environment
Marco Werman: The tiny item I kept amid a sea of destruction
A Haitian woman carries produce to be sold in Port-au-Prince on March 15, 2011. An estimated three million people were affected by the earthquake in 2010.
Books
After surviving Haiti’s earthquake, Laura Wagner turned to fiction
A rose is lit by a candle as survivors, local residents and visitors gather for a ceremony for victims of the 2004 tsunami in Ban Nam Khem, a fishing village destroyed by the wave. Survivors of Asia's 2004 tsunami and relatives of its 226,000 victims crie
Environment
Survivors will never forget the day the tsunami hit
Emergency workers inspect the earthquake damaged buildings in L'Aquila Italy in April, 2009.
Justice
An Italian appeals court overturns the convictions of six scientists accused of not warning people about an earthquake
The rubble these days in Port au Prince isn't just destruction. Construction projects are underway all around the Haitian capital as well.
Development
Haiti’s future may be brighter than you think
Rescue workers inspect a car caught under a landslide after an earthquake and tsunami hit the northern port of Iquique, April 2, 2014. The earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.2, struck off the coast of northern Chile near the copper exporting port of Iquiqu
Global Scan
Chile’s earthquake could have been much worse
Chile earthquake
Environment
Was it luck or preparedness? What explains the low death toll in Chile’s earthquake?
Baloch separatists
Conflict & Justice
A silent war in Pakistan’s Balochistan has hindered aid to earthquake victims
Earthquake in Pakistan
Environment
Pakistan government asks separatist militant groups to stop fighting so they can get help to survivors of earthquake