Posts Tagged ‘quakedamaged’

Japanese engineers attach power cable at quake-damaged plant

Brave engineers risking their lives to avert catastrophic meltdown have successfully attached a power cable to Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that means electricity is ready to flow to critical equipment inside the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

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Aftershocks weaken Chile’s quake-damaged buildings (AP)

A machine works in an earthquake-destoyed building in Concepcion, Chile, Saturday, March 6, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile last Feb. 27, causing widespread damage.(AP Photo/ Ivan Pisarenko)AP – A father’s unanswered cry for his missing son rang out Saturday from the wreckage of a fallen 15-story apartment building that has become a symbol of Chile’s devastating earthquake.


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Foreign hospitals help quake-damaged health system (AP)

A boy reacts as he is vaccinated in Constitucion, Chile, Friday, March 5, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile last Feb. 27, causing widespread damage.(AP Photo/ Roberto Candia)AP – Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign Friday and doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and the tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities.


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