Garry and Kate Mayhew were cleaning up after dinner in their Beirut, Lebanon, apartment on Aug. 4 when they felt the ground shake just before they heard the boom, so loud and so powerful it threw them to the floor.
Mennonite Central Committee
Photo: Kate Mayhew, MCC representative for Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, walks through the hard-hit neighborhood of Gemmayze in Beirut, Lebanon.
