Police officer Jorge Guerra took names of the missing from tearful relatives and friends. “There are people alive. There are several people who are going to be rescued,” he said — though the next people pulled from the wreckage were dead. The sound of chain saws, power drills and sledgehammers mixed with the whoosh of […]
(www.USATODAY.com) One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile on Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth. A tsunami set off by the magnitude-8.8 quake threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean— roughly a quarter of the globe. Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by […]
(www.USATODAY.com) One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile on Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth. A tsunami set off by the magnitude-8.8 quake threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean— roughly a quarter of the globe. Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Scores of U.S. troops landed on the lawn of Haiti's shattered presidential palace Tuesday to the cheers by quake victims eager for reinforcements in the sluggish global effort to bring food, water and shelter to the devastated country.
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The powerful earthquake that rocked Haiti "destroyed" much of the capital city.
