He was upright in an instant, huffing and puffing with such violence that his entire body seemed to quake and quiver with every breath. |
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These buildings may have crumpled under the pressure of the quake, but I know for sure that the people will not buckle that easily. |
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Hours after the quake, terrified residents stayed away from their homes, gathering in village squares and outdoor coffee shops. |
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What fat-cat politico wouldn't quake in his boots after a sufficient tongue lashing from this powder keg of fairy dust? |
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I didn't know what was going on, but apparently they had felt the vibrations from the quake and come out of the sand. |
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The massive quake killed more than 140,000 people as buildings collapsed and firestorms turned the capital into a raging inferno. |
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In 1929, for example, a relatively modest quake triggered an undersea landslide on the continental slope off Canada. |
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However, Iranian authorities have accused foreign governments of failing to deliver on aid pledges made after the Bam quake. |
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Most people think of foreshocks as the small earthquakes that trigger a big quake. |
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The quake was most strongly felt in Aomori and Iwate, the two farthest-north prefectures on Japan's main island of Honshu. |
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It densifies the ground so that if a real quake does occur, the land will be strong enough to withstand it. |
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The point nearest to the surface is the epicentre and marks the site where the quake is strongest. |
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Its epicenter, the location on the earth's surface directly above the quake, was at Duck Creek. |
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The new administration should be given passing marks for its swift reaction to the quake. |
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Some 500 homeless victims of the quake were being housed in relief tents and others were sheltering from the freezing cold winds in buses. |
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As they watched rescuers work frantically, another quake made the trees on the bank sway. |
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Houses shook violently and buildings collapsed from the quake and force of the explosion. |
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The quake caused 15 buildings and the minarets of four mosques to collapse in Bolvadin, located about a three-hour drive from the capital Ankara. |
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Today's trembler was the third significant quake to hit California since Sunday. |
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The quake was so strong that they were forced to stop talking and to abandon the stall. |
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A thunderous boom suddenly sounded from miles away, accompanied by a miniscule quake. |
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Sunday's quake was both an aftershock of last year's tremor, and an earthquake in its own right. |
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He attributed the quake to the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate under the Eurasian Plate at their convergent boundary. |
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Despite this quiet reflection, foreigners marked the first anniversary of the quake with much fanfare. |
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But just as she was about to strike, the ground began to tremble and quake, knocking her off-balance, but she managed to regain her footing. |
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It was followed by four aftershocks, one of which almost matched the intensity of the first quake, registering 5.2 on the Richter scale. |
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Four soldiers charge at Gallahad, he then looks at the ground and the Earth starts to quake making the soliders go flying everywhere. |
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Technicians misread critical monitors, and the core of the plant begins to tremble and quake. |
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All three of them went tumbling to the floor as the very foundation they were on began to quake violently. |
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I don't think writers should be this godlike figure who reads from a podium and signs books while their fans quake before their greatness. |
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This softly spoken woman, barely over five feet tall, can make grown men quake. |
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The quake was followed by at least four aftershocks and additional quakes of up to magnitude 6 could follow, the agency said. |
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The main quake and subsequent 20 aftershocks jolted major cities of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. |
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The city has been affected by after effects of the quake, with over 200 casualties reported by police and hospital sources. |
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The quake occurred more than 10 kilometres deep and was followed by powerful aftershocks. |
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About 3,000 family kilns for pottery were destroyed in the quake, and most of the villages were nearly levelled. |
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Hours after the quake rocked central and southern Italy, rescue teams were clawing at the concrete in the search for survivors. |
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Seventeen people were killed and the town was reduced to rubble in the quake. |
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A powerful burst of rupture energy is seen 80 seconds later as the quake progresses northwest. |
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Their reaction to the quake was to try and encash on it by organising a tamasha in the city. |
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As you'll also know, the quake was bad, but the sea didn't boil like last time. |
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The quake was so massive, the ground cracked, houses split, roads were torn. |
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They huddled in blankets donated in massive international relief operations to help El Salvador cope with its worst quake in at least a decade. |
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The quake, which registered 8.9 on the Richter scale, was eerily localized directly beneath Fenway Park, the home of the Red Sox. |
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The Central Weather Bureau said Wednesday's quake was an aftershock from a deadly tremor in March. |
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It was later discovered, though, that a rare series of small tremors, called foreshocks, occurred before the large quake hit the city. |
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At 12.59 am, a massive deep sea quake struck just off the coast of Indonesia, sparking a tidal wave of monstrous proportions. |
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There are no reliable figures yet but the quake has probably orphaned thousands of girls who are vulnerable to exploitation. |
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As well as levelling the town, the quake has also destroyed what remained of the ancient city and its sixteenth century citadel. |
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Magnitude is a measure of the energy released by a quake at its hypocenter, the point underground where movement first occurs along a fault. |
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It is aware that the fear on which it ultimately thrives is that of politicians who quake at its supposed influence and money. |
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The smaller wineries still cleaning up from the quake are not yet equipped to process fruit. |
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In the hours before the quake, some local authorities ordered evacuations that proved effective in saving lives. |
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Some of these waves are what we feel when the ground beneath our feet moves during a quake. |
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After the quake shook the house, knocking it off its foundation and caving in the porch they loved, they said they don't know if they can afford to stay. |
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Reports are that, like the other quake drinks, it packs a wallop. |
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By strengthening the building, it is forced to follow the movements caused by the quake. |
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When we arrived there on foot, I thought at first that the house had withstood the quake. |
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A severe quake struck the ancient city of Bam in December, claiming 30,000 lives and leaving 200,000 homeless. |
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It is sensitive to earth tremors not felt by humans and calls in concert when a quake impends. |
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The masonry is so finely worked that a penknife blade cannot be fitted into the cracks, and windows or niches are trapezoid to counteract gravity in a quake. |
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The Christchurch quake, he said, was a popular conversation topic with his young kindergarten students. |
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It is the first time we have saved somebody's life after such a long time after the quake. |
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Second it is the most unlikely of all places in Nigeria to have seen such a glorious heaven quake! |
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Almost six years after the deadly quake, little of the money pledged to rebuild the broken city has been anted up. |
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Sometime after the quake, many people noticed the water draining out of the coves and harbours. |
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If anything demonstrates the power of comedy to make dictators quake in their boots, it is the events of the past few days. |
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According to the Iranian authorities, tens of thousands of people are desperately in need of food, water and shelter after the most lethal quake in a decade. |
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After the 2001 quake in Gujarat, I spent a week working there and losing count of the piles of discarded old clothes. |
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Haiti had extreme problems far pre-dating the quake that should have been central to the planning for any realistic solution. |
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The smallest table measures three metres by four metres and can shake in any direction, simulating a quake and testing the movement of beams and columns. |
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In the early weeks after the quake emergency medical care was provided to more than 4,500 people. |
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Up on the moors, Baildon Golf Club's members start playing the second hole on top of a huge rocky bank that makes novice players quake in their golf shoes. |
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There was no room to budge but we were all anxious to get to the Provincial House and find out how it had withstood the quake. |
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The water shifted above a quake does not move across the ocean, i.e. a log floating at the surface above the epicentre would not have been carried to Thailand or Somalia. |
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A week after the devastating quake, the Chinese government has designated today a national day of mourning for earthquake victims. |
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The peaks and flatlines he has experienced during the club's European sorties have been akin to those that would register on a seismograph representing a 9.8 quake. |
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News reports say the quake has killed more than 90 people, with at least 50,000 left homeless. |
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The medical team that left Roissy Saturday, May 24, and arrived in Chengdu the next day was on route when the second quake happened. |
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It was the tsunami, or rather the tsunamis, that came after the quake and destroyed everything. |
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Jacmel was difficult to reach by ground transport, as the quake damaged the road system extensively. |
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There have been no reports of injuries or structural damage, so the 4.2-magnitude quake in the garden of England is ripe for ridicule. |
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After the quake, Rabia Bibi left a remote mountain area to live in a temporary camp closer to the resources of the city. |
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To carry out successfully this project, Tdh started recruiting 30 to 35 people from communities affected by the quake. |
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Poor rural communities are now host to those who fled the capital immediately after the quake. |
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Kids no longer quake in the street when a policeman tells them off. |
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Operating with the most basic supplies, staff members gathered at the temporary camp the day after the quake. |
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The right way to respond to the Qinghai quake is undoubtedly to focus on the rescue of survivors and recovery of those who died. |
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Aftershocks and heavy rains continue to trigger mudslides on mountain slopes where the quake has uprooted forests, loosened topsoil or created barrier lakes. |
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The band is amped, and even the ballads quake with fat bass lines, piano chords issued with sledgehammer bravado and the vocals hustled to the front of the mix. |
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It's okay if you are a little scared of getting hitched, but if the very thought of a wedding makes you quake in your boots, it could amount to gamophobia. |
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The US recently stepped up its relief efforts, sending in 11 more Chinook helicopters to join the 17 US choppers already flying missions into the quake zone. |
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She shewed us plainly, that, though she permitted us to assign her laws and subdue her apparent powers, yet, if she put forth but a finger, we must quake. |
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In Britain, fears were growing over the welfare of several nationals who have not been heard from since the quake struck. |
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Since many of the traditional black-glazed roof tiles broke in the quake, contractors had to scour other disused Japanese buildings for replacements. |
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Measuring 6.2 on the Richter Scale, the quake produced hundreds of aftershocks, with the worst devastation occurring south of Yogyakarta city in the Bantul district, where three-quarters of the fatalities occurred. |
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Being relatively deep, the quake was felt over a large area and it is not certain where the epicentre was located. |
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Indeed, many Puritans blamed the emerging theatre scene of the time in London, which was seen as the work of the Devil, as a cause of the quake. |
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In Scotland, a local report of the quake disturbed the adolescent James VI, who was informed that it was the work of the Devil. |
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A magnitude 8 quake is actually 10 times bigger than a magnitude 7 on a seismogram, and the energy released is 32 times stronger. |
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Below, a waterworks at Tokyo Disneyland gets interrupted by the 8.9 quake. |
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More than 500 people died as a direct consequence of the quake. |
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The quake, measuring at least 6.9 in magnitude, struck the mountainous region injuring about 10,000 people, collapsing schools, office buildings and thousands of homes. |
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We know the height of the December tsunami thanks to four Earth-orbiting radar satellites, the data from which were analysed by scientists: two hours after the quake, the wave was 60 cm high. |
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An estimated half a million people have been forced to leave the capital, Port-au-Prince, and migrate to other departments not directly affected by the quake. |
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She was convinced another quake would happen. |
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The quake occurred along a strike-slip fault, where two plates grind against each other in opposite directions. |
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It was not immediately clear what if any damage resulted from the quake in the area, which lies along the northern coast of the Gulf of Alaska. |
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The epicenter of the quake was Hindukush region and its depth was 193 kilometers. |
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It was also reported that a Hull woman died as a result of a heart attack caused by the quake. |
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The Charleston Earthquake of 1886 was the largest quake ever to hit the Southeastern United States. |
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In contrast to the September 2010 quake, the February 2011 earthquake struck on a busy weekday afternoon. |
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The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence. |
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Who honours not his father, Henry the fifth, that made all France to quake, Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by. |
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The quake jiggled the greater Los Angeles region and was felt as far south as San Diego, said seismologist Susan Hough. |
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The epicentre of the quake was 111 km southwest of Karakul, the USGS said, a sparsely populated mountainous area. |
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Another man in the nearby town of Tela suffered a heart attack when the quake struck and was taken for treatment. |
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The quake was centred 56 km NNE of Shwebo, 59 km WNW of Mogok, 117 km N of Mandalay and 123 km NNW of Maymyo. |
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A geophysicist said the agency had no immediate reports that the latest quake caused any significant damage or was widely felt. |
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Focal depth of the quake was 10 kilometer and its epicenter was 17 kilometer northeast of Nawabshah. |
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Even if a foreshock occurs, there is no means to identify whether it is actually a aACAyforeshock' and that a major quake will follow. |
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The US Geological Survey said the quake followed a series of weaker foreshocks. |
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The quake was reportedly felt from Louisiana to Florida in the Southeastern United States. |
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In the immediate aftermath of the quake, Development and Peace sent two of its emergency relief program officers to help with logistical support in setting up and distributing emergency aid. |
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Both governments could plead mitigating circumstances: the strength of the quake and the ruggedness of the mountainous terrain, made even more inaccessible by landslides. |
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After the quake, West Oakland residents opposed reconstruction of the overpass through their neighborhoods, arguing it had become fertile ground for garbage, prostitution and crack cocaine. |
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One such event, a deadly quake that struck in 1959 in southern Montana just outside the northwestern corner of the park, affected a number of hydrothermal features in Yellowstone, including its iconic geyser, Old Faithful. |
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The epicenter of the quake is a region frequently hit by small temblors that usually cause little damage. |
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That quake was followed by a massive fire that destroyed the centre of town and burned for four days, until the smouldering ashes were wetted down by rain. |
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Distraught relatives lined up yesterday at an improvised morgue in a bloodstained alleyway to identify some of those mangled and entombed in Saturday's quake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale. |
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Earthquakes are common in GreeceThousands of people were left homeless in January by a quake on the Greek Ionian island of Cephalonia. |
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The quake, with a depth of 10km, was centred in the mountains that divide Qinghai province from the Tibet Autonomous Region. |
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The DART engineers cleared the road surface of boulders and rubble, but the drainage ditches lining the highway were still clogged with dirt and debris from the quake. |
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Offers of help came from Mexico, the United States, Germany, Spain, Taiwan, Britain, Panama, even Guatemala, which itself suffered six deaths in the quake. |
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Anger is growing as hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the quake were yet to receive aid because of logistic bottlenecks, poor infrastructure and a chaotic government response. |
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In the aftermath of the quake, the escape of more than 4,000 detainees and prisoners from the National Penitentiary and detainees now pose a domestic security threat for an already weak justice sector. |
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Part of this sum has also gone towards addressing new issues that are beginning to arise in the aftermath of the quake, such as the threat of food insecurity. |
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However, there are still thousands of smaller buildings that remain vulnerable to quake damage. |
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When screening for international adoption had been completed before the quake, the benefits to speeding up these children's travel were clear and the process was fast-tracked. |
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Correlating well with these seismograms, the top figure shows how the quake was registered at Sartorius AG with the help of a modified semi-microbalance. |
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So we shall not be afraid though the earth be in turmoil, Though mountains tumble into the depths of the sea, and its waters roar and seethe, and the mountains quake. |
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Such a long and clear lineament should trigger a big quake. |
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In fact, says Mr Bapat, there is little chance of another dangerous tsunami, since no aftershock to the first quake would have the strength to generate one. Crumbs of comfortAmid the wreckage, some sought glimmers of light. |
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Pakistan blamed India for the delay, caused by the need to unblock roads closed by landslides after the quake, to clear landmines, and to process the papers of those who had applied to cross. |
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We use a tool called a seismometer to record the shaking and then try to understand what happened before and during the quake. |
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The NFA said 19 people sustained serious injuries in the quake. |
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Saturday's quake also triggered a tsunami that killed at least four people on Chile's Juan Fernandez islands and caused serious damage to the port town of Talcahuano. |
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Since that quake, Mexico has experienced a number of aftershocks. |
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We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by. |
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Temblors larger than the 1906 San Francisco quake are even rarer. |
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English writer Thomas Churchyard, then aged 60, was in London when the quake struck and he drafted an immediate account which was published two days later. |
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At Rangi Ruru, lucky to close for just two weeks in the aftermath of the quake, they had other schools, unable to reopen, using their premises in the afternoons for some time. |
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This quake struck at about lunchtime and was centred closer at Lyttelton, and shallower than the prior quake, consequently causing extensive damage. |
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Seismologists assert a large quake will strike central Tokyo. |
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The HMNZS Canterbury, which was docked at Lyttelton when the quake struck, was involved in providing local community assistance, in particular by providing hot meals. |
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There are unsubstantiated claims about the Lisbon quake that some animals escaped to higher ground, while many other animals in the same areas drowned. |
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The USGS pinpointed the quake in the Nazca tectonic plate area. |
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Among the facilities impacted by lack of power was the Christchurch Hospital, which was forced to use emergency generators in the immediate aftermath of the quake. |
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Authorities did not provide a casualty figure but the Kandilli observatory, Turkey's main seismography centre, said the quake was capable of killing many people. |
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