These photographs show the scale of the destruction in the port city of Iskenderun inTurkey. The city, beside the Mediterranean Sea in the province of Hatay, was heavily damaged in the earthquake. Pictures show the aftermath of afire which broke out as a result. Read more: Turkey...
A pedestrian walks amid smoke caused by wildfires in Canada near One World Trade Center in New York, the United States, June 7, 2023. Smoke from raging wildfires in Canada has triggered air quality alerts in a number of U.S. states, with the sky over New York City rapidly darkening. (...
Photo taken on Aug. 15, 2021 shows a damaged building after an earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti. On Aug. 14, 2021, Haiti was hit by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever to hit the country, leaving more than 2,200 dead. (Photo by Katherine Hernandez/Xinhua) A teacher ...
Kurdish forces recaptured the town at the Turkish frontier on Jan 26, in a symbolic blow to the jihadists who have seized large swathes of territory in their onslaught across Syria and Iraq. Eighty percent of the buildings and infrastructure was destroyed. In June, ISIS fighters snuck into Koba...
A police officer stands guard outside a damaged building after an earthquake hit Hualien, Taiwan, February 7. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone separating the two...
Earthquake activity is the only signal to humans that many of these deep ocean ridge eruptions provide. However, Iceland is a location where a mid-ocean ridge has been lifted above sea level. There, people can directly observe this volcanic activity....
‘I will not stop searching until I find all of her remains’ These are the heartbreaking words of 51-year-old Norio Kimura, a man whose daughter Yuna, then 7, went missing during the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Seven years after the disaster, family members...