Tsunami Houses

A hut was all that 50-year-old Farida and her husband had to their name until the Cyclone Gaja blew it away. Today, they squat with their grandchildren near the remains of what was once their home, trying to halt passing vehicles in the hope of getting something to eat.

A major 7.5 quake struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, prompting a tsunami alert hours after a milder quake brought down houses in the same area, and officials expect further damage.

Tens of thousands of people on Japan's northeastern coast who were left homeless in the March 2011 tsunami are shivering their way through yet another winter in cramped temporary housing, with perhaps several more to go.

People in coastal areas who lost their homes in the December 2004 tsunami today had reason to rejoice as Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today inaugurated 5,674 houses, roads and new buildings, constructed at a cost of Rs 253.76 crore, for their benefit.

Costa Rica suffered remarkably little damage from Wednesday's magnitude-7.6 quake - a few blocked highways, some collapsed houses and one death, of a heart attack caused by fright. Officials credited the relatively deep location of the quake and building codes that Costa Rican officials call as strict as those in California and Japan.

Thousands of villagers who fled their coastal homes during a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines have returned home, but hundreds more still jittery from the temblor remained in evacuation centers on Saturday, officials said.

A 7.6-magnitude undersea quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines late Friday, triggering tsunami warnings across the region. At least one house collapsed and power was knocked out in several Philippine cities, local radio reported.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, handed over 8251 houses constructed as part of the tsunami rehabilitation programme with World Bank aid, in 11 districts of the state. A state government release said that she handed over the houses through video conferencing in 11 districts. The construction of the houses began in 2005 after the December 2...

As part of the government's efforts to provide houses to the tsunami-hit victims, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today handed over 8,251 houses constructed at a cost of Rs 303 crore, to beneficiaries in 11 coastal districts that were affected by the 2004 calamity.

A fisherman's welfare association said it would stage a demonstration in front of the office of Project Implementation Agency on March 7 to protest against 'delay'' in implementing housing scheme for tsunami hit fishermen families of Vambakeerapalayam hamlet.

Seven years after tsunami, there is hope for 566 families of Nochikuppam as they will be allotted a new house under the Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project of the World Bank at Okkiyam Thoraipakkam under the hire-purchase scheme. Sources said the decision to allot houses to the beneficiaries by December 2012 came after a meeting of higher offi...

The Central Government had sanctioned Rs 1441.75 crore to rebuild the coastal areas in Kerala. In October 2006, the then Revenue Minister K P Rajendran announced the scheme in the Assembly.Areas like housing, drinking water, power, social welfare, costal protection and construction of roads and bridges were included in the scheme.Though bridges and...

Fears of euro collapsing to unleash a tsunami of financial and economic disruptions around the globe, have added urgency to concerns that China's campaign to cool overheated housing prices may go too far.

A hut was all that 50-year-old Farida and her husband had to their name until the Cyclone Gaja blew it away. Today, they squat with their grandchildren near the remains of what was once their home, trying to halt passing vehicles in the hope of getting something to eat.

A major 7.5 quake struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, prompting a tsunami alert hours after a milder quake brought down houses in the same area, and officials expect further damage.

Tens of thousands of people on Japan's northeastern coast who were left homeless in the March 2011 tsunami are shivering their way through yet another winter in cramped temporary housing, with perhaps several more to go.

People in coastal areas who lost their homes in the December 2004 tsunami today had reason to rejoice as Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today inaugurated 5,674 houses, roads and new buildings, constructed at a cost of Rs 253.76 crore, for their benefit.

Costa Rica suffered remarkably little damage from Wednesday's magnitude-7.6 quake - a few blocked highways, some collapsed houses and one death, of a heart attack caused by fright. Officials credited the relatively deep location of the quake and building codes that Costa Rican officials call as strict as those in California and Japan.

Thousands of villagers who fled their coastal homes during a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines have returned home, but hundreds more still jittery from the temblor remained in evacuation centers on Saturday, officials said.

A 7.6-magnitude undersea quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines late Friday, triggering tsunami warnings across the region. At least one house collapsed and power was knocked out in several Philippine cities, local radio reported.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, handed over 8251 houses constructed as part of the tsunami rehabilitation programme with World Bank aid, in 11 districts of the state. A state government release said that she handed over the houses through video conferencing in 11 districts. The construction of the houses began in 2005 after the December 2...

As part of the government's efforts to provide houses to the tsunami-hit victims, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today handed over 8,251 houses constructed at a cost of Rs 303 crore, to beneficiaries in 11 coastal districts that were affected by the 2004 calamity.

A fisherman's welfare association said it would stage a demonstration in front of the office of Project Implementation Agency on March 7 to protest against 'delay'' in implementing housing scheme for tsunami hit fishermen families of Vambakeerapalayam hamlet.

Seven years after tsunami, there is hope for 566 families of Nochikuppam as they will be allotted a new house under the Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project of the World Bank at Okkiyam Thoraipakkam under the hire-purchase scheme. Sources said the decision to allot houses to the beneficiaries by December 2012 came after a meeting of higher offi...

The Central Government had sanctioned Rs 1441.75 crore to rebuild the coastal areas in Kerala. In October 2006, the then Revenue Minister K P Rajendran announced the scheme in the Assembly.Areas like housing, drinking water, power, social welfare, costal protection and construction of roads and bridges were included in the scheme.Though bridges and...

Fears of euro collapsing to unleash a tsunami of financial and economic disruptions around the globe, have added urgency to concerns that China's campaign to cool overheated housing prices may go too far.