An avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak has left at least four climbers dead and six others missing from a 10-person international expedition, and bad weather is slowing the desperate search for survivors. Pakistani rescue teams located four bodies on the mountain Friday after an avalanche struck the expedition during a summit attempt on Broad Peak, […] The post Rescuers recover four bodies on Broad Peak as six climbers remain missing after avalanche appeared first on American Almanac .
An avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak has left at least four climbers dead and six others missing from a 10-person international expedition, and bad weather is slowing the desperate search for survivors. Pakistani rescue teams located four bodies on the mountain Friday after an avalanche struck the expedition during a summit attempt on Broad Peak, the world's 12th-highest peak at 8,047 meters in the Karakoram range. The expedition was led by Nirmal Purja, the renowned British-Nepali mountaineer known as "Nims Dai," who gained worldwide fame after climbing all 14 of the world's peaks above 8,000 meters in a record 189 days in 2019. That feat was chronicled in the Netflix documentary "14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible." Three of the four…Open
Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 13 people.
A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Monday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall, trapping workers at a paper factory, and leaving police reporting "a lot of deaths" as rescue crews worked into the night. The quake hit at 4:27 p.m. local time, 2:27 a.m. Eastern, and registered magnitude 7.1 […] The post Magnitude 7.1 earthquake collapses mall in southern Japan, leaves at least nine missing and feared dead appeared first on American Almanac .
A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Monday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall, trapping workers at a paper factory, and leaving police reporting "a lot of deaths" as rescue crews worked into the night. The quake hit at 4:27 p.m. local time, 2:27 a.m. Eastern, and registered magnitude 7.1 on the Japan Meteorological Agency's scale, the agency's highest possible intensity rating of 7 on the Shindo scale. The U.S. Geological Survey measured it slightly lower, at 6.8. Either reading placed it among the strongest to strike the country this year, and the damage on the ground bore that out within minutes. In Kashima, a city in Kumamoto prefecture, the second floor of an Aeon Mall shopping center…Open
A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Tuesday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall and trapping an unknown number of people inside, with police telling Japanese media there were "a lot of deaths" at the site. The magnitude 7.1 quake hit the Kumamoto region at 4:27 p.m. local time, according […] The post Magnitude 7.1 earthquake collapses shopping mall in southern Japan, leaves dozens trapped or missing appeared first on American Almanac .
A powerful earthquake struck Japan's southern Kyushu island on Tuesday afternoon, collapsing the second floor of a shopping mall and trapping an unknown number of people inside, with police telling Japanese media there were "a lot of deaths" at the site. The magnitude 7.1 quake hit the Kumamoto region at 4:27 p.m. local time, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency, sending violent shaking across the southern end of the country's main island chain. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the event at a lower magnitude of 6.8, a discrepancy that remains unresolved between the two agencies. By either measure, the quake registered at the highest possible level, 7, on Japan's Shindo intensity scale, a reading that signals catastrophic ground…Open
Five adults drowned one after another in the Scioto River in Powell, Ohio, after jumping in to save a struggling swimmer, leaving their young children stranded on the bank, screaming for help no one could give in time. The chain of deaths began around 9 p.m. on a Sunday evening when one member of a […] The post Five friends drowned in Ohio river rescue chain as children watched from shore appeared first on American Almanac .
Five adults drowned one after another in the Scioto River in Powell, Ohio, after jumping in to save a struggling swimmer, leaving their young children stranded on the bank, screaming for help no one could give in time. The chain of deaths began around 9 p.m. on a Sunday evening when one member of a group of friends waded into the river and started fighting the current. Two others rushed in to help. When they, too, went under, the final two adults entered the water. None of the five made it back to shore. On the nearby bank, children who had come with the group watched it all happen. One child ran along a road in a panic until a passing motorist spotted the boy and called 911. Emergency radio traffic captured the scale of the disaster in…Open
The group is believed to have been fishing at the river, when at some point one of the adults went in to go swimming and started to struggle, authorities said.