Sentences with phrase «rubble after the earthquake»

A man in Haiti, who was working with Compassion International, was trapped under rubble after the earthquake and lost for 65 hours.

They can be deployed almost immediately to find, treat, and help extract people trapped in rubble after an earthquake or explosion.

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.

Not exact matches

Cooper, one of the first journalists on the ground after the massive earthquake that reduced much of Haiti's capital of Port - Au - Prince to rubble, on Thursday night detailed harrowing feats of humanity and strength he witnessed there.

It could also be used after an earthquake to locate people buried in rubble by seeking their iPods or phones.

Then, five years ago, his search gained momentum after six sandstone building blocks of Egyptian design turned up beneath the overburden of earthquake rubble.

Student Pia Antignani, 21, said she decided to help prevent further deaths after she was pulled from the rubble of her school five hours after it collapsed in a 2002 earthquake that killed 27 fellow pupils and a teacher.

But the magnitude - 7.8 earthquake that struck New Zealand just after midnight on 14 November 2016 — among the largest in the islands» modern history — has reduced that thinking to rubble.

And after seeing this summer's San Andreas, I'm afraid that hope was shot down, drowned, and buried underneath the same rubble that rains down on helpless Californians in this brainless earthquake pic.

«Smoke» finds a man confronting the older brother he resents when they are both trapped in the rubble of a castle after an earthquake hits.

Here's the high concept that makes I Am Alive uniquely authentic: One year after a cataclysmic earthquake shakes the world to post-apocalyptic dust, you play an unnamed man returning through the wreckage and rubble to reunite with his wife and daughter.

Rolling Stone — How the World Failed Haiti — Janet Reitman — «A year and a half after the island was reduced to rubble by an earthquake, the world's unprecedented effort to rebuild it has turned into a disaster of good intentions.»