by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 23, 2017 | World
Mexican rescuers were working through the early hours Saturday in a desperate search for survivors amidst twisted rubble of collapsed buildings three days after a deadly earthquake. Across Mexico City, with exhausted emergency workers still reporting signs of life,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 21, 2017 | World
Rescuers endeavored against defeating odds as dawn broke on Thursday to save a 12-year-old schoolgirl and other possible survivors trapped beneath debris in central Mexico following the country’s deadliest earthquake in 32 years. At least 237 others have died and...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 20, 2017 | World
Rescuers searched for survivors through the night after a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, killing scores and leaving many trapped under collapsed buildings. At least 216 people died in Mexico City — the country’s capital —...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English and Majid al-Khateeb | Sep 8, 2017 | World
A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Mexico late Thursday, killing at least 32 people in what the president called the quake-prone country’s biggest one in a century. The quake hit offshore in the Pacific at 11:49 pm (0449 GMT), about 100 kilometers (60...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 9, 2017 | World
At least 19 people were killed in an earthquake in China’s mountainous southwest region. Tens of thousands of people were being evacuated on Wednesday from the Sichuan region where memories of a 2008 seismic disaster remain fresh. The 6.5 magnitude quake struck...
