Ms. Painaqueo, a 36-year-old dishwasher, was forced to move her children — ages 17, 8, 7, and 15 months — and everything she could salvage from her apartment onto the sidewalk in front of her precarious building, still standing but not stable.
Other precarious, poorly-constructed buildings toppled when the earthquake hit, trapping and killing scores of people.
Once a grand commercial district with colonnaded streets, it is now a motley open-air market, where venders set up stalls amid cracked, precarious buildings.
But others, like Abu Hadi, live in precarious conditions in cramped apartment buildings as they wait for the crisis to play out across the border.
1. Resiliency of the programme NTP Afghanistan has been dealing with challenges such as physical destruction of buildings, precarious security leading to frequent disruption of logistics, and psychological and emotional issues of both the staff, and the patients.
Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003 brought the Kurdish region in northern Iraq a significant measure of self-rule, building on its precarious post-1991 autonomy.
The time spent building this improbable, precarious place – soon to be toppled by an earthquake, razed by a fire and then built up again – is also made manifest.
The Jersey Shore was the first developed coastline in the United States, but its buildings are inherently precarious, because beaches and barrier islands aren't naturally permanent.
