On Saturday morning, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Herat and surrounding villages in western Afghanistan. More than 2,400 people were killed, thousands were injured and many are still trapped, reports The Washington Post. Several villages have “completely perished,” said Janan Saiq, a spokesman for the Taliban-run Ministry of Disaster Management, to the Post.
Heavy flooding displaces thousands in China while the capital experiences a break from sweltering heat. Extreme temperatures and severe damages reported.
did have a lot of early notification. a lot of people, obviously, uh he did those those warnings and they sought out a proper shelter because had they not looking at the devastation that we had. our death toll could have been in the hundreds. wow and i m just curious. sheriff. did you personally witness what took place or experience? t place? and if not, what have you heard from some of your neighbors and folks in the community in terms of what they re saying? what it sounded like what it looked like and so on. i don t think that there s anybody in our community who didn t experience this firsthand . and uh, i think every employee that i had including myself, we ve been out all night and then are and are still out or the recovery efforts are still underway. we re still going through collapsed buildings, collapsed houses, making sure that we haven t missed anybody. but yeah, it s just, um i guess
half of ecuador s people felt the quake. the southern province of eloro was the most affected. emergency services said people there were trapped inside collapsed houses. video online shows residents removing rubble the search for survivors. the president made an appealfor calm. after visiting a hospital in the southern city. translation: according - to the oceanographic institute there is no reason to worry about a tsumani. the tremor had an after shock at 12:22 local time at a scale of 4.8 point eight and one third at 12:55 on a scale of 3.7.
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Emergency Management that the Chinese rescue team immediately went to rescue after arriving in the disaster area of Hatay, Turkey, and rescued a survivor together with the Turkish side at 1:30 local time on the 9th. Zhao Ming, the captain of the Chinese rescue team, said that with the assistance of the earth side, the Chinese rescue team has dispatched a rescue team to carry out investigation and search, and will do its best to carry out the search and rescue mission.