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 JABLA, India (AP) - The earthquake didn't destroy Mohammad Shafi Mir's house and bury his mother, but what followed seconds later did — a torrent of bounding boulders that thundered down the mountainside at killer speed.
As he watched in shock from a nearby field, the quake-triggered landslide, resounding like "tank fire on a battlefield," mowed down trees as thick as 5 feet, bombarded houses and enveloped the village with a dust storm that turned day into dusk.
By the time its deadly run ended in the Jabla Nala River far below, nearly half the village's 296 buildings, including the mosque, had been shattered. Only the skeleton of Mohammad's two-story home was left standing, the inside gutted by rocks, boulders and other detritus.
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