Apr 26 Watch 2:51 Victims crowd hospitals in Nepal after buildings 'pancaked' by earthquake By PBS News Hour After a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, killing more than 1,500 people and sparking panic in the streets, residents are suffering through the aftermath. Ellen Barry, the South Asian bureau chief for The New York Times joins Alison Stewart via Skype… Continue watching
Apr 25 Death toll surpasses 4,000 after powerful earthquake devastates Nepal By Rebecca Lee More than 1,400 people have been reported dead after a powerful earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday. Continue reading
Mar 11 How a hospital withstood a 9.0 quake with nary a broken window By Ed Jahn, Oregon Public Broadcasting Within an hour of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated central Japan in 2011, Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital was accepting patients and acting as a refuge for throngs of survivors who’d lost everything. No broken windows. No collapsed ceilings. No… Continue reading
Jan 14 Photo essay: Haiti's earthquake victims wonder where the reconstruction money went By Joshua Barajas On Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake reduced the impoverished island country of Haiti to rubble, leaving 220,000 dead, another 300,000 injured, and more than a million homeless. Among those that survived also lost limbs to falling walls and… Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch What made Japan's deadly volcanic eruption so unpredictable? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 25 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocks Alaska By Justin Scuiletti A 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Alaska this morning, shaking residents in one the strongest quakes for the state in 50 years. Continue reading
Aug 24 6.0 earthquake strikes wine country in Northern California By Elisabeth Ponsot, Carey Reed A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit Northern California on Sunday, concentrated about nine miles south of the city of Napa. Continue reading
Aug 06 Miles O'Brien returns to the site of Japan's nuclear disaster three years later By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy In March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake shook Japan, triggering a catastrophic tsunami and nuclear disaster. Since then, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien has provided some of the most in-depth reporting on the subject to-date. He has traveled… Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch News Wrap: Israel, Hamas agree to three-day cease-fire By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, Egypt brokered a three-day cease-fire between Israel and Hamas following a brief, localized truce to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. Earlier, Israel made a deadly strike on a house in Gaza City, and there were… Continue watching
Jun 23 Strong earthquake triggers tsunami warning off Alaska coast By News Desk A tsunami warning has been issued for parts of Alaska's Aleutian Island chain after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake, the Associated Press reports. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the earthquake at 12:53 p.m. local time Monday. Continue reading