Recent Posts Tagged With 'Earthquake'

• "I'm ok" --Two eternal minutes of horror

  Posted on Tuesday August 21st, 2007 at 16:01 in Help, Perú, Earthquake, lima, unicef, red cross, world vision

  The following is the original text e-mail that my pen friend Leyla sent me last week to let me know that she was ok after an 8.0 earthquake hit, 90 miles from where she lives in Lima, Peru.Hearing an account from someone who went through it is both p...

• Travel, Knowledge, And Responsibility...

  Posted on Tuesday August 21st, 2007 at 15:03 in Perú, Earthquake, cultures, information age, pen pals

  There was a time when a story like the recent earthquake in Peru would pass through my mind as yet another event happening somewhere else in the world…a tragedy, no doubt, but hurricanes, tsunamis, political unrest, terrorist plots, bank robberies,...