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An illustration of the world with a lit fuse.
Posted inReading List

Tragedy in the Making: A Reading List About Unnatural Disasters

by Colleen Hagerty May 23, 2023May 26, 2023

A list of stories that dig into the “ingredients” of recent natural hazard-related disasters.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

After the Tsunami

by Matthew Komatsu March 11, 2019October 19, 2022

After the 2011 disaster, which killed his grandmother and laid waste to his ancestral home, an American journeys to Japan to search for what the tsunami left in its wake.

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

An Oral History of Langtang Valley, Destroyed by the Nepal Earthquake

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 7, 2015October 19, 2022

In Outside magazine, Anna Callaghan and Rabi Thapa compile an oral history of Langtang, the valley destroyed by the Nepal earthquake in April 2015.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

A First-Person Account of Surviving the Earthquake in Nepal

by Sari Botton May 9, 2015October 19, 2022

Because the area is full of Buddhists, most people stayed positive and were not shocked by the realization that death is inevitable. The earthquake was actually a great Buddhist teaching that everything is an illusion and things are never as they seem to be. Like a rope on the ground can be mistaken for a […]

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