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Lessons from a disaster: Building homes for an earthquake
Financial Times: We can’t prevent quakes but we can design structures to keep people safe.
Financial Times: We can’t prevent quakes but we can design structures to keep people safe.
The Government looks overseas for help in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle, police crackdown as arrests are made for looting and rescue efforts dwindle in Turkey and Syria in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald
Miraculous rescue of couple trapped for 296 hours, but Turkey due to stop searches soon.
A 17-year-old filmed a heartbreaking farewell to his family and friends ... and survived.
The football world is in mourning after Christian Atsu was confirmed dead in Turkey.
IS gunmen reportedly took advantage of focus on earthquake to carry out deadly attack.
First up is a law change to force councils to provide more info on flooding and quakes.
5400 shipping containers, 200,000 tents dispatched after 332,000 dwellings destroyed.
OPINION: Save the Children NZ CEO pleads for support in quake-struck region.
By 8.30pm last night almost 70,000 Kiwis had reported feeling the quake.
New York Times: We forget how fragile cities are until disaster strikes.
Thousand left homeless after the earthquake line up in the streets for food.
The quake struck 25km west of Gisborne at a depth of 22km.
Turkish justice officials are targeting contractors involved in shoddy construction.
Turkish officials detained or issued arrest warrants for some 130 people.
Construction codes are rarely enforced, explaining why thousands of buildings crumbled.
The tragic predawn quake in Turkey has now claimed over 20,000 lives.
Worried families in NZ fear for those they cannot contact after catastrophic quake.
New York Times: With thousands dead and many homeless, survivors plead for more aid.
Denise McCabe and her Turkish husband are helping after major quake.
PM Chris Hipkins throws policies on the bonfire, half a billion dollar drug bust and frustration growing in Turkey/Syria over quake response in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald
Race on as “statistically today is the day when we’re going to stop finding people".
Thinly stretched rescue teams worked through the night in Turkey and Syria.
New York Times: A six-floor building was reduced to rubble. And yet, there was hope.
Millions of people affected; state of emergency declared in 10 provinces.
Crying infant recovered whose mother appears to have given birth while buried.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Turkey and Syria, killing thousands of people.
Controversial government policies could be axed today, the death toll keeps climbing from the devastating Turkey/Syria quake & a Kiwi pilot is kidnapped by Indonesian separatist fighters in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald
Engineers, soldiers, paramedics, search dogs & handlers on way as world pitches in.
Northland Turk fortunate his family is safe after powerful earthquake kills thousands.