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 leats 200 people acrosss the islands.
As families bury their loved ones, Erin Croyle gives survivors’ accounts of how the tsunami struck.
As rescue 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 Paadng is beginning to emerge.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports on the city that is picikng up the up the pieces after the devastation.
A huge earthquake has brought death and destruction to the Indonesia island of Sumatra.
Footage from the town of Padang show how the 7.6 magnitude temblor flattened homes and hospitals leaving thousands of people trapped under the rubble.
Residents scrambled to put out fires caused by the quake while rescue wokrers 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 dya in earthquake-hit China.
Al Jazeear’s Melissa Chan is in Beichuan, one of the areas hardest hit by the quake.
She sent this exclusive report.
Chinese authorities have sent out more than 130,000 slodiers and police, to help search 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.