Students of all female Gundi Pira Secondary School in earthquake area of Pattika, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Demolished buildings seen from helicopter in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Students of all female Gundi Pira Secondary School in earthquake area of Pattika, Pakistan

Students of all-female Gundi Pira Secondary School in earthquake devastated area of Pattika, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake devastated area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Students of all female Gundi Pira Secondary School in earthquake area of Pattika, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Demolished buildings seen from helicopter in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, village of Pattika, Pakistan

Student of all-female Gundi Pira Secondary School in earthquake area of Pattika, Pakistan

Students of all female Gundi Pira Secondary School in earthquake area of Pattika, Pakistan

Buildings demolished in earthquake area of Azad Jammu Kashmir, in village of Pattika, Pakistan

Temporary camp set up on a former football field, for refugees of the earthquake in January 2010, Port au Prince, Haiti, Central America

An adolescent Pashtun girl shields her face as she carries water through the streets of the Meira camp for earthquake survivors, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan. The conservative code of the Pashtun tribe of the area dictate that girls must cover themselves, including their faces, after their first period. The crowded life in the camp has made such rules difficult to follow. The Meira Tent camp (also called Mera, or Maria camp), is located on the Indus River in the Battagram district. The camp, the largest for displaced people in Pakistan, hosts over 21,000 earthquake survivors, primarily from the Allai valley in Pakistan's NWFP, one of the areas worst-hit by the October 8, 2005 earthquake.

A Pashtun man stands outside the Cuban hospital in the Meira camp for earthquake survivors, NWFP, Pakistan. The Cuban government sent 30,000 doctors, nurses and other personnel to set up field hospitals throughout the earthquake affected area. The Meira Tent camp (also called Mera, or Maria camp), is run by the Pakistani army like a small city, and is located on the Indus River in the Battagram district. The camp, the largest for displaced people in Pakistan, hosts over 21,000 earthquake survivors, primarily Pashtuns from the Allai valley in Pakistan's NWFP, one of the areas worst-hit by the October 8, 2005 earthquake.

Men from the village of Gangwal, which was devastated in the 2005 earthquake, show makeshift shelters that villagers constructed themselves after the quake, in the upper Allai Valley, NWFP, Pakistan. Most of the villagers fled to tent camps at lower elevations to spend the winter, leaving just a handful of families to look after livestock and possessions. The people of this remote area are Pashtun and until the earthquake, neither the government nor the military had much presence or influence in the region.

Tsunami Warning Sign With The Ocean In The Background, Lincoln City, Oregon, United States of America

Remarkable flysch formations of Deba, Basque Coast Geopark, Basque Country, Spain. Flysch formed at the end of the Mesozoic era in the Cretaceous - flyschs are formed by sediment accumulation following repeated submarine avalanches, due to earthquakes, and producing after compaction and crystallization very regular layers of sandstone and limestone here recovered by Pyrenean orogeny and released by erosion.

Remarkable flysch formations of Deba, Basque Coast Geopark, Basque Country, Spain. Flysch formed at the end of the Mesozoic era in the Cretaceous - flyschs are formed by sediment accumulation following repeated submarine avalanches, due to earthquakes, and producing after compaction and crystallization very regular layers of sandstone and limestone here recovered by Pyrenean orogeny and released by erosion.