Description: Editors of two Armenian newspapers published in Watertown talk about how the 1915 genocide affects their community's view of loss of life in the Soviet earthquake. Archival visuals.
Description: Civil engineers talk about solidity of Boston roads, bridges, high-rise buildings in event of earthquake, and the need to retrofit older structures. Boston skyline on cloudy day. Storrow Drive traffic. Beacon Hill.
Description: Canned food is packed for Kurdish refugees; aid is mobilized for Bangladesh cyclone victims. Yet, public has compassion fatigue in multiple disasters. John Hammock of Oxfam on African famine relief effort.
Description: Local Iranian spokesperson explains huge death toll in Iran earthquake because of unstable construction and precarious rescue efforts. File of devastation and international aid.