Big earthquake in Asia. This is a photo of my old neighborhood that I grew up in, about 9 years before I was born. Our house is circled in red.
All the rubble in front of it was where dozens of houses slid down the bluff after the clay underneath them liquified from the shock of the 9.2 earthquake. We used to hike and camp in the ruins down there. It's all cleaned up today, a lot of parks and big expensive houses there now.
All the rubble in front of it was where dozens of houses slid down the bluff after the clay underneath them liquified from the shock of the 9.2 earthquake. We used to hike and camp in the ruins down there. It's all cleaned up today, a lot of parks and big expensive houses there now.
hello fellow alaskan.
It's the story of an aid worker who spent a year in Central Asia on an enviromental project to save the disappearing Aral Sea. the Aral Sea was once the worlds 4th largest body of fresh water ( slightly larger than Lake Huron). It is now 20% of its 1960 size; and is predicted to disappear entirely by 2020.
Aside from the mind boggling chronicle of the water mismanagement which led to the problem, the story is a good read on a variety of levels. I think you would particularily like the descriptions of the incompetance and corruption among the local bureaucrats.