MetaFilter posts tagged with earthquake and disaster

Grief in the Rubble

homunculus — Sun, 25 May 2008 00:36:54 -0800

Chinese Are Left to Ask Why Schools Crumbled. "A staggering number of students died as schools collapsed in the May 12 earthquake, and grieving parents are speaking out about shoddy construction."

Major earthquake in Peru

LMGM — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:08:55 -0800

A 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Peru in the Ica region, south of the capital of Lima. Ica, Chincha and Pisco have been hardest hit, although the pavement rippled in downtown Lima as well. BBC (first link) and CNN have been reporting about 336-7 dead, but my uncle (in Lima) says that many towns south of San Bartolo have simply disappeared into rubble.

Real-Time Global Bad News Map

fenriq — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:14:46 -0800

The Global Trouble AlertMap
Are you curious about that chemical spill in Minnesota? Or how about the bio hazard situation in Honduras? The Havaria Information Systems AlertMap is updated in (near) real-time and the wealth of bad news is fairly astonishing. Plus they've got RSS feeds for whatever bad (or locationally relevant) news you want delivered. There are USA only maps, Europe only maps and Hungary too (slow day, just a fire). Previously (focused on bird flu tracking though several comments note how freakin' cool the map is)

Pakistan/Kashmir quake

Snyder — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 04:21:41 -0800

Over 19,000 dead in earthquake in South Asia

Help Iranian quake survivors

hoder — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:40:35 -0800

Iran quake death toll hits 50,000. 150,000 survivors are homeless, hungry, and freezing. They really need your immediate help.

$110 can provide a tent for a family of five

$60 can provide drinking water to 30 people

$45 can provide space heaters to three families

$25 can provide blankets to a family of five

Mercy Corps has raised $188,397 so far, but this is far from enough.

20,000 feared dead in Iran quake

arnab — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 05:48:48 -0800

20,000 feared dead in Iran quake. Google News Cluster.

8.0 Earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan

majcher — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:57:08 -0800

8.0 Earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan. Holy crap. The Kobe quake in 1994 was a 6.9 - am I right to think that an 8.0 is about ten times worse than that one? Any mefites in Japan who can give us more information?