Calif. Mudslide Survivor Recalls Horror
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What Greg Ray remembers is seeing a mountain come down on him. What he doesn't understand is why he survived while two of his friends died in a torrent of liquid earth that buried homes in the hamlet of La Conchita.
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By Valryn Warren Staff Writer  RIVERSIDE -- Scott Douglas Davis stands in the street, staring like a man waking up from a bad dream to something worse -- workers boarding up his home.  "It's like a concrete block on my chest," he said. "I'm disabled, I can hardly walk.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - A massive pile of mud that  killed 10 people when it hit a seaside California town shifted  on Thursday, delaying efforts to remove debris while geologists  assess whether the mound could move again.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - Rescue crews on Tuesday  pulled a fourth body from the massive pile of mud and debris  covering much of a Southern California community after a  landslide prompted by two weeks of nearly unrelenting storms.
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As loved ones recited the names of the dead at ground zero, a wounded but resilient America paused to remember a calamitous day.
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Rescuers with listening devices sensitive enough to pick up a whimper or a faint tapping searched on Tuesday for victims feared buried in a mudslide that sent a thunderous cascade of trees and dirt onto this seaside hamlet.
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Survivors of the Java  coast's tsunami were trying to pick up the pieces of their  lives on Thursday, despite repeated aftershocks that have been  shaking pasts of the island and spreading fresh fear.
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At least one person was killed  while others were hurt or buried under dirt and debris on  Monday after a hillside saturated from days of heavy rain  collapsed onto a coastal southern California neighborhood.
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Herey Warmadi survived last month's tsunami by climbing to the roof of his motor parts shop. Now tears spring to his eyes at the memory of filthy water and muck filling the place where he earned his living for 42 years.
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Witness accounts from people who saw the huge waves triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian coast.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Thousands of weary survivors of  Japan's deadliest earthquake in a decade prepared for a third  tense night in makeshift shelters and outside as rain  threatened and aftershocks raised fears of another big tremor.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan  Doug McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge  waves of debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other  coastal Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook  nearby Prince William Sound.
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MEULABOH, Indonesia -- A week after an earthquake and tsunami ripped through this city, a woman picks her way over a mountain of debris searching for something to feed her chicken. A man carries a salvaged carpet on his back. People sweep flooded foyers, just a few yards away from where a dead man wrapped in aluminum siding lies by ...
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A Los Angeles man, whose  blood-scrawled love message to his wife and family became the  most haunting image of a fatal train crash last week, choked up  in tears on Thursday as he thanked his rescuers.
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By Leigh Dethman Deseret Morning News  Gus Chin feels like an outsider, even though he's lived in Utah for 24 years.  The Jamaican native still remembers the first day he arrived in the valley, the awkward stares and whispers.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Some 100,000 weary survivors of  Japan's deadliest earthquake in a decade bedded down for a  third night in makeshift shelters or slept outside as a series  of strong aftershocks raised fears of another big tremor.
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TEN days after a stream of mud and rocks destroyed their building, four survivors of the Philippines typhoon disaster, including a three-year-old girl, were yesterday pulled alive from the ruins.