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Coffee Shops with a Taste for Good Help Rebuild Post-earthquake New Zealand

Edit Voa News 28 Sep 2017
In Christchurch in New Zealand, the damage caused by a 2011 earthquake remains evident with metal girders and scaffolding on every street and a near constant beep of construction vehicles. The earthquake was devastating for the city ... A business at the heart of regeneration is C1 Espresso, which was set up in 1996 but was knocked out of business in 2011....

Mexico quake damage could surpass $2 billion

Edit The Telegraph Macon 28 Sep 2017
President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday that preliminary accounting of the damage caused by the two big earthquakes that hit Mexico this month could cost upward of $2 billion (381 billion pesos) ... The government is making direct electronic transfers to victims of a magnitude 8.1 earthquake and aftershocks in Chiapas and Oaxaca to the tune of $356 million (6.5 billion pesos) so they can begin repairing their homes....

Mexico: Damage caused by earthquake could surpass $2 billion

Edit Hindustan Times 28 Sep 2017
President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday that preliminary accounting of the damage caused by the two big earthquakes that hit Mexico this month could cost upward of $2 billion (38.1 billion pesos) ... A week after an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, a ......

Earthquakes’ playoffs hopes diminish in loss to Chicago

Edit East Bay Times 28 Sep 2017
The Earthquakes’ chances of advancing to the MLS Cup playoffs all but ended on a sultry early autumn evening Wednesday at Avaya Stadium ... The Earthquakes have gone from playoff contenders to practice fodder after getting outscored 12-2 in their past four games to tumble to eighth place in the Western Conference....

Popular Anime Your Name Is Getting A Live-Action Remake From J.J. Abrams

Edit MTV 28 Sep 2017
It was only a matter of time before Makoto Shinkai's was given the Hollywood live-action treatment ... Shinkai himself has said that he made so that young Japanese people could "believe in their futures" — he was heavily influenced by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan's north-east coast — but certain themes in the film are also universal, like young people's anxieties about adulthood and falling in love. Funimation Films....

Mexico quake damage could surpass USD 2 billion: President Nieto

Edit Deccan Chronicle 28 Sep 2017
President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday that preliminary accounting of the damage caused by the two big earthquakes that hit Mexico this month could cost upward of $2 billion (38.1 billion pesos) ... Authorities raised the death toll from last week's magnitude 7.1 earthquake in central Mexico to 337 on Wednesday....

Mexico earthquake damage could surpass 2 billion US dollars

Edit Belfast Telegraph 28 Sep 2017
President Enrique Pena Nieto said preliminary accounting of the damage caused by the two big earthquakes that hit Mexico this month could cost upward of 2 billion US dollars (£1.49 billion) ... Authorities raised the death toll from last week's magnitude 7.1 earthquake in central Mexico to 337 on Wednesday....

Hope evaporating, a grim wait for relatives after Mexico quake

Edit This is Money 28 Sep 2017
MEXICO CITY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Relatives waiting on Wednesday outside an office block that collapsed last week in Mexico City's earthquake have resigned themselves to the likelihood that their loved ones did not survive, as a stench of death seeped from the rubble ... The earthquakes caused $2 billion in damage to schools, housing and heritage sites including churches, ministers said on Wednesday....

In Mexico, survivors recount amazing escapes from quake

Edit This is Money 28 Sep 2017
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A tree branch saved a mechanic from the collapsing building where a dozen co-workers died in last week's earthquake ... in last week's earthquake, at the Magdalena de las Salinas trauma hospital, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept ... 19 earthquake....

Migrant quest for Mexican dream cut short in quake

Edit Herald & Review 28 Sep 2017
Mementos sit at a memorial where a building collapsed in last week's 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico City, in the Obrera neighborhood of Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. Across Mexico City, some 40 buildings collapsed in the earthquake and ... ....

Lori Dengler: Fake news, fear won't save us from quakes

Edit Times Standard 28 Sep 2017
A friend sent a worried message - Lori, what does this mean? The link screamed. "MAJOR EARTHQUAKE WARNING. US West Coast Earthquake Warning as Cascadia Subduction Zone Surges." It's nothing new - first surfacing in January 2016, it was based on an erroneous interpretation of data that reputable scientists and organizations quickly explained and dismissed ... ....

Homemade headgear takes center stage in quake drill

Edit Sun Star 28 Sep 2017
THE use of homemade protective headgear was showcased by students of the Special Education (Sped) learning institution in Baguio City during the third quarter National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill. Made from ordinary foot mattresses and rugs, the school’s Parents and Teachers Association decided to make use of such materials as an alternative from notebooks to shield them from debris which may hit them if an earthquake may occur ... ....

Volunteers attacked delivering quake aid in southern Mexico

Edit Sacramento Bee 28 Sep 2017
Mexico's Roman Catholic Archdiocese says young people delivering relief supplies to earthquake victims in the southern state of Oaxaca have been attacked and robbed....
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