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Indonesia Quake Death Toll May Be Thousands
World  (tags: world, Refugees&Relief, earthquake, Indonesia )

Cal
- 67 days ago - reuters.com
Rescue teams struggled in heavy rain on Thursday to find people trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian city of Padang, possibly killing thousands.
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New Zealand Escapes Damage After Magnitude-7.8 Quake
World  (tags: earthquake, tsunami, New Zealand, damage provisions, safety, government )

Raffi
- 144 days ago - bloomberg.com
New Zealand escaped serious damage after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck off South Island, triggering a tsunami alert that extended to Australia. The quake, which hit at 9:22 p.m. local time yesterday, was the largest since 1931, when a temblor
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BIG EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO NOW
World  (tags: Earthquake, Mexico, big earthquake, world )

Teresa
- 199 days ago - care2.com
I will bring more info
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Report: 5,335 Students Dead Missing in China Quake
World  (tags: China, earthquake, government, corruption, cover-up, death )

Dee
- 214 days ago - news.yahoo.com
BEIJING - China said Thursday that 5,335 students died or remain missing in last year's massive Sichuan earthquake, the first official tally in what became a politically charged issue because of allegations of corruption and shoddy school construction.
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Earthquake in Mexico Minutes Ago
World  (tags: world, news, earthquake, Mexico )

Teresa
- 224 days ago - care2.com
Sorry this is short but I still have to do some research here because we felt an earthquake minutes ago and we think that in Mexico City was worse. Please pray for us.
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Death Toll Rises in Italy Quake
World  (tags: Italy, Earthquake )

Ben
- 243 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
At least 207 people have been killed by Monday's earthquake in central Italy, with 100 residents critically injured. 150 people have been rescued alive so far, and the operation would continue for a further 48 hours and involve 7,000 rescuers.
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Italy Muzzled Scientist Who Foresaw Quake
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', conflict, corruption, death, earthquake, freedoms, government, Itlay, politics, propaganda, society, world )

Kit
- 245 days ago - alertnet.org
ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population.
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At Least 92 Die in Earthquake in Italy
World  (tags: death, earthquake, human tragedy, homeless, italy )

Kit
- 245 days ago - nytimes.com
L'AQUILA, Italy -- More than 90 people died and tens of thousands were left homeless when an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 shook central Italy early Monday morning, seriously damaging buildings in the... ***video and photographs in article***
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China - the Aftermath
World  (tags: china, earthquake, corruption )


- 564 days ago - newstatesman.com
Chinese leaders have been praised for their response to the Sichuan earthquake, but when the emergency phase is over they will have to answer questions, primarily about corruption in awarding school building contracts.
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A Grim Search for Life in the Valley of Death
World  (tags: china, natural disasters, earthquake )


- 571 days ago - theage.com.au
From a distance, the Chinese town of Beichuan looks like a town of Lego bricks that some child has kicked over, but the close-up reality is an unspeakable mangled mess of debris and bodies through which volunteers scour for survivors.
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Quake-Damaged Dam Could Flood City
World  (tags: world, china, Refugees&Relief, earthquake, government )

Cal
- 572 days ago - buzzle.com
Chinese officials have warned that a second disaster could hit the south-western city of Dujiangyan, where 500,000 people live, after Monday's earthquake caused cracks to appear in a dam protecting the city.
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China Quake Toll Likely Tens of Thousands
World  (tags: world, china, Refugees&Relief, earthquake, politics )

Cal
- 573 days ago - reuters.com
China's most devastating earthquake in three decades killed more than 12,000 people with the toll likely to soar after state media said on Tuesday nearly 19,000 were buried under rubble in one city alone.
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China Says Up to 5,000 Dead in One Quake-Hit County
World  (tags: China, earthquake )


- 574 days ago - reuters.com
powerful earthquake in southwest China has killed up to 5,000 people and left as many as 10,000 injured, state media said, as hundreds of children remained trapped in at least eight collapsed schools.
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Africa Quake Toll Rises as Homeless Add to Aid Crisis
World  (tags: Africa, earthquake, rwanda, drc )


- 670 days ago - afp.google.com
The death toll from a series of earthquakes that hit central Africa rose Monday to 44 as a major aid operation for hundreds of injured and thousands of homeless gathered pace amid new aftershocks.
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ON THIS DAY - 1995: Earthquake Devastates Kobe
World  (tags: on this day, japan, kobe, earthquake, deaths, 1995 )

Chrissy
- 690 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of people are feared dead and thousands injured after a powerful earthquake struck Japan at dawn. Worst hit was the port of Kobe, a city of 1.5 million. Whole buildings, apartment blocks and an elevated highway collapsed killing at least 200
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