Sentences with phrase «after the earthquake in»

A few years ago, after an earthquake in Nepal, the Facebook community raised $ 15 million to help people recover and rebuild — which was the largest crowdfunded relief effort in history.
I saw this for myself when I visited Haiti right after the earthquake in 2010.
Nearly seven months after the earthquake in Haiti, there is still much to be done.
He began an active duty career in 1986 that including deployments to Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War, Kosovo, three tours in Iraq and a peacekeeping mission to Haiti after an earthquake in January 2010.
This is because of a vaccine stockpile set up in response to the cholera that struck Haiti after an earthquake in 2010 — cholera carried there, ironically, by Nepalese peacekeepers.
The Himalayan Youth Foundation is raising funds to help rebuild the Kailash Children's Home in Kathmandu after an earthquake in 2015
The team used a submersible pump in deep wells to obtain groundwater samples at depths of 280 to 1,300 meters from seven locations in the fault zones surrounding the epicenter 11 days after the earthquake in April 2016.
What is the significance of the fact that R's mother adopted him after an earthquake in «old Byzantium» (modern day Istanbul, Turkey, formerly called Constantinople) left him unidentified and homeless?
Renowned for its Art Deco architecture, Napier was rebuilt in this style after an earthquake in 1931.
The work consists of 73 tons of steel reinforcement that Ai Weiwei found crumpled up among the rubble after the earthquake in Sichuan, and then had transported to his workshop in Beijing, where assistants have meticulously hammered the bars straight again.
After the earthquake in 1907.
Many homes that were rebuilt after the earthquake in 2010 are even more dangerous than the original ones.
Witnessing the bureaucratic deadlock after the earthquake in Haiti, APJ quietly took matters into their own hands and started building schools in direct partnership with Haitians.
The power came back on Saturday in the control room of Reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where the tsunami caused explosions and fires after the earthquake in Japan.
Daiwa has some experience in the field; they built 14,772 units after an earthquake in 1995.
Stefan's Tiny House has largely been constructed from salvaged materials from homes in Christchurch that were demolished after the earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.
Once right after the earthquake in April of 2010, and then again later that year in October of 2010.

Not exact matches

After an earthquake hit southern Italy near Naples in 1980, some survivors had to wait more than 20 years before their damaged properties were restored.
In 2010, the Obama administration granted the status to Haiti after a massive earthquake that devastated the island - nation, killing an estimated 220,000 and displacing 1.5 million.
West Hollywood's action comes two years after building inspectors in Los Angeles said 13,500 buildings in that city needed earthquake - readiness retrofits.
I started down this road, but after the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995, I evaluated my life and career decisions and chose another path.
The country is still rebuilding its infrastructure after an earthquake and cholera outbreak together killed 210,000 people in 2010, CNN reports.
The tsunami's waves hit residences after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, on March 11, 2011.
After disasters like 9/11 or Japan's earthquake, people feel united in their shared trauma, and use first - person plural pronouns («we - words,» as Pennebaker calls them) a great deal.
More than two thousand years after the original Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an earthquake, a group of architects wants to build a 21st - century version of it.
If another earthquake causes another tsunami, all the stored radioactive water could be released into the ocean and the containment buildings could be left in even much worse shape than they were after the first hit.
Thirteen miners have been trapped underground after an earthquake caused a South African gold mine to cave in.
In this photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, red ash rises from the Puu Oo vent on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano after a magnitude - 5.0 earthquake struck the Big Island, Thursday, May 3, 2018 in Hawaii Volcanoes National ParIn this photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, red ash rises from the Puu Oo vent on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano after a magnitude - 5.0 earthquake struck the Big Island, Thursday, May 3, 2018 in Hawaii Volcanoes National Parin Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
After both earthquake and hurricane destruction in Haiti, Sandals Foundation supported various partners including: Population Services with 205,000 Aqua Tabs; Global Orphan with clothing; the Salesian Missions with recovery kits for 400 families; and All Hands Volunteers with the recovery of six schools and health clinics.
Earthquake central: A small tremor was recorded early Friday in the shale heartland of Oklahoma, one day after state regulators limited work because of seismic activity.
They are usually among the first teams on the ground after a natural disaster (think tsunami in Indonesia, Haiti earthquake).
• This reminds us of the moving story Matt Labash told in the Weekly Standard about Haiti after the earthquake, and the work of Fr.
Nuns in Italy have run for their lives after a 6.6 earthquake destroyed a cathedral and basilica.
Earthquakes have destroyed churches in central Italy, just two months after a powerful earthquake killed... More
Hey, I said that predicting tornadoes in Nebraska was rather like predicting earthquakes in Japan, and after I said that, there was an earthquake in Japan!
Oxfam recently admitted to «sexual misconduct» from its employees working in Haiti after the catastrophic earthquake in 2011.
But earthquakes demonstrate that what we thought was the one solid thing in our lives, the ground upon which we stand, is not so solid after all.
They are active partners with a church in Haiti that has taken in children who were orphaned after the earthquake.
Christian humanitarian agency Tearfund has built 108 houses in Nepal after a catastrophic earthquake in the country three years ago.
Nepal received more than $ 4.4 billion in foreign aid after an earthquake 16 times more powerful than Haiti's 2010 disaster killed more than 9,000 people in April.
I'm standing under a canvas roof in the tent city of Port au Prince after the earthquake.
People pray to God after a disaster, never questioning why he would send them a hurricane / earthquake / tsunami in the first place.
Behold the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, bu the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire.
After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
As it seems that the Domino effect is really taking effect for countries falling one after another as all idols fell at times of winds of change (El - Zalzalah) the Earthquake... to those countries which have not invested in their populations but rather treated as if in a major Prison system.
A man in Haiti, who was working with Compassion International, was trapped under rubble after the earthquake and lost for 65 hours.
Check out these sobering pictures taken three days after the devastating 8.8 earthquake in Chile.
Columnist Jeremy Willet writes about living in Haiti after the earthquake and how to truly help Haiti recover.
An American woman is held in a Haitian jail for more than 100 days after allegedly attempting to traffic children out of the country in the wake of a devastating earthquake.
Families in Nepal now have brand new homes after huge earthquakes in 2015 devastated more than 5 million people.
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