Stories tagged with: earthquake

• BGR assessing Indonesia's needs after tsunami

  by David Roach, posted Monday, October 01, 2018 (8 months ago)

  

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  PALU, Indonesia (BP) -- Baptist Global Response is assessing needs on Indonesia's Sulawesi island after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and tsunami Sept. 28 killed at least 1,200 people, with the death toll expected to rise. More than 1.5 million people have been affected, according to initial reports.

  Volunteers prepared a mass grave for 1,300 in the hills above hard-hit Palu, Indonesia, the BBC reported, and decomposition forced at least one local hospital to begin burying bodies before relatives could pick up remains of their loved ones. The main airport in Palu was damaged, landsides have blocked roads and power outages are widespread. Read More

• BGR ready when 2nd earthquake struck Indonesia

  by Grace Thornton, posted Monday, August 06, 2018 (9 months ago)

  

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  LOMBOK, Indonesia (BP) -- A team trained by Baptist Global Response (BGR) was already at work on Indonesia's Lombok island when a 6.9-magnitude earthquake with strong aftershocks hit Sunday (Aug. 5), killing nearly 100 people.

  The team from BGR's Singapore office had deployed to the resort island several days before after a 6.4-magnitude quake had rocked Lombok on July 29, killing 16.

  "The team had gone in to do that first assessment, and that assessment work ... Read More

• Iran-Iraq earthquake called 2017's deadliest yet

  by Grace Thornton, posted Monday, November 13, 2017 (one year ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The death toll continues to rise after the deadliest earthquake of 2017 shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday (Nov. 12).

  More than 450 people have been killed and 7,000 injured in the 7.3-magnitude quake, with major aftershocks continuing to shake the region, extending into Turkey, Kuwait, Pakistan and Lebanon, according to CNN.

  Iran and Iraq both have started major rescue efforts. Read More

• Another Mexico quake compounds disaster response needs

  by Mark Kelly, posted Wednesday, September 20, 2017 (one year ago)

  

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  MEXICO CITY (BP) --- In the aftermath of an earthquake in central Mexico that killed at least 217 people, Southern Baptists are moving to assess opportunities for response.

  The 7.1-magnitude quake struck Tuesday (Sept. 19), exactly 32 years after an even-larger tremor devastated large areas of Mexico City and killed about 10,000 people. This new earthquake was centered about 76 miles southeast of the city and affected five states. Read More

• NEPAL: A year after devastating earthquake

  by Caroline Anderson, posted Monday, May 02, 2016 (3 years ago)

  

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  KATHMANDU, Nepal (BP) -- The April 2015 earthquake in Nepal was a galvanizing moment for Rajaan Chhetri,* a church planter, pastor and mentor. Prior to the earthquake, the Lord gave Chhetri and Christian worker Reece Dehn* the vision to open a water bottling plant in Nepal to create jobs for Christians as well as meet a need for clean drinking water.

  Though Nepal is the second water-richest country in the world, ... Read More

• Ecuador post-quake response being assessed

  by Lily Jameson, posted Wednesday, April 20, 2016 (3 years ago)

  

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  QUITO, Ecuador (BP) -- As the death toll climbs in Ecuador after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake April 16, Baptist Global Response is assessing damage and determining the most strategic response.

  According to CNN on April 20, the death toll was approaching 500, with 4,000-plus injured.

  David and Jo Brown, area directors in the Americas for the BGR humanitarian organization, landed in Quito, Ecuador, earlier this week and began working with local Ecuadorean Baptist partners ... Read More

• SBC DIGEST: SBCV honors T.C. Pinckney; seminarian aids Nepal quake relief

  by Staff, posted Thursday, May 28, 2015 (3 years ago)

  T.C. Pinckney, a key figure in Southern Baptist conservative causes for more than 25 years, was honored by the SBC of Virginia Executive Board during its May meeting for "his dedication to the Lord, his support of the SBCV and the indelible impact he made on the mission field of Virginia." Southern Seminary student and Nepal native N.D. Lama teams up with friends in his homeland to raise $50,000 for initial relief work after the April 25 earthquake. Read More

• In Nepal, forgotten village receives food

  by Susie Rain, posted Monday, May 18, 2015 (4 years ago)

  

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  NEPAL (BP) -- The Nepali man pulled brick after brick off a pile of rubble that was once his home. He passed along anything that was salvageable to his children to set aside. Finally, down in a hole, he found what he was looking for -- their food storage.

  The splintered, dusty woven basket held their entire harvest of rice. Before the April 25 earthquake in Nepal, this basket brimmed with white grains. Today, he pulled out one handful of red-stained rice. Read More

• Nepalese Baptist pastor in U.S. aids homeland

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, May 15, 2015 (4 years ago)

  

  BUFFALO, N.Y. (BP) -- As Nepal works to recover from two massive earthquakes within 17 days, a Nepalese Southern Baptist church planter in Buffalo, N.Y. is readying to travel to his homeland to help those in need, including his three sisters left homeless.

  Purna "John" Tamang, pastor of Saransthan International Fellowship, said his sisters are living in tents in Kathmandu and other communities. Tamang described them as Christians telling others of Jesus Christ. Read More

• In Nepal, 4 Colo. pastors aid quake survivors

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, May 13, 2015 (4 years ago)

  

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  DENVER (BP) -- Four Colorado pastors were seven hours into a rugged road trip across rural Nepal April 25 when they got word that an earthquake had struck near Kathmandu.

  More reports trickled in to the missionary with whom the pastors were traveling, and an hour later their 15-passenger van turned around in the

  

  rutted road and headed back to what became the Americans' "home" for the next eight days.

  Five of those nights they slept outside, sharing with the Nepalis the trauma of structure-jolting aftershocks.

  "Everything was in a state of chaos," said Marc Maurer, co-pastor of Mesa View Church in Mesa, Colo., founder of Beyond the Giant Ministries International. Read More