4月20日CNN聽力：厄瓜多爾產生猛烈地動滅亡數字爬升 日本再發地動致44人死8人失落
Happy Monday, April 18th, to you. I'm Carl Azuz withyour daily delivery of international current eventsand, of course, that includes what's happening inEcuador and Japan.
People in several regions of western Ecuador arerecovering from what one resident called the worstexperience of life.
A major 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on Saturday night and was strong enough toflatten homes, knock out power and buckle highways across the region.
At least 238 people were killed, a number that the country's government expects will increaseas rescuers searched through the rubble.
Portable hospitals have been set up, thousands of police and soldiers have been deployed toaffected areas and mobile phone companies are giving free text messages to help peoplelocate and communicate with their loved ones.
This was the deadliest earthquake to strike Ecuador since one hit in 1987.
The country is located along the Ring of Fire.
It's a horseshoe-shaped region around the Pacific Ocean where much of the world'searthquake and volcanic activity happens.
Japan sits on the other side of that ring, and the southwestern part of that country has beenreeling from its own series of earthquakes.
A strong magnitude 6.2 tremor struck the region last Thursday and then a major 7.0 quakehit on Saturday.
Dozens of people were killed in both of them.
And because the region has gotten 165 aftershocks so far, as well as bad weather and thethreat of landslides, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says finding survivors is a race against the clock.
The military has been called in to help people here, too, delivering food, blankets, first aidsupplies.
More than 760,000 homes don't have power, almost 400,000 don't have running water.
And how some of these homes were constructed have made the difference in whether they'restill standing.
So, we are in one of the harder hit areas of Kumamoto and the damage as a result of these twoearthquakes really can be felt in very different ways, on the same street.
So, look to my right here, you can see one of the houses that has no doubt been one of theharder hit.
It is absolutely unlivable.
The family live there frankly cannot return home unless they rebuild.
And then you look here on the left side, my left there.
You can see this house which sustained damage in its own right, but you can see that a familycan-might return to this home to some point.
And that really gives you an idea of how much of a rule infrastructure and building materialsreally play when it comes to earthquake damage.
And so, this house on the right probably a little bit older, probably made of more brittlematerial and the house in the left a little bit newer and could handle the kind of force that we'veseen from these two earthquakes.
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