The human toll in the devastating Iranian earthquake seems almost unfathomable. |
A planet-wide earthquake shook it as though someone were trying to throttle it. |
A year after the earthquake that devastated Gujarat, local people still live in tents or temporary shelters. |
The 9.0 earthquake that shook the earth under the Indian Ocean was an anomaly. |
Mr Khan said earlier that the confirmed casualty toll from the earthquake was 39,422 dead and 65,038 injured. |
As in Turkey, here too multi-storey buildings collapsed not because of the force of the earthquake but due to poor construction. |