Rescuers are giving up any hope of finding more survivors days after a massive earthquake triggered a tsunami that ravaged Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, killing at least 200 people acrosss the islands.
As families bury their loved ones, Erin Croyle gives survivors’ accounts of how the tsunami struck.
As recsue teams pull mangled bodies and injured people from debris, the scale of death, destruction and injury caused by a major earthquake in the Indonesian coastal city of Padang is beginning to emerge.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports on the city that is picking up the up the pieces after the devastation.
A huge earthquake has brought death and destruction to the Inodnesia island of Sumatra.
Footage from the town of Padang show how the 7.6 magnitude temblor flattened homes and hopistals leaivng thousands of people trapped under the rubble.
Residents scrambled to put out fires caused by the quake while rescue workers struggled to reach the coastal town after access roads were cut by a landslide.
Bernard Smith reports.
The scenes of destruction and devastation are growing worse by the day in earthquake-hit China.
Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan is in Beichuan, one of the araes hardest hit by the quake.
She sent this exclusive report.
Chinese authorities have sent out more than 130,000 soldiers and police, to help seacrh for survivors, after Monday’s devastating quake. Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng has followed emergency teams up into the mountains, where they finally reached one of those remote villages.