Posts Tagged ‘earthquake’
DC area shaken by minor earthquake (AP)
AP – The DC area was shaken by a minor earthquake early Friday.
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China earthquake toll rises to 1,144 (AP)
AP – Tibetan monks prayed Friday over hundreds of bodies at a makeshift morgue next to their monastery after powerful earthquakes destroyed the remote mountain town of Jiegu in western China and left at least 1,144 people dead.
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Low supplies slow China earthquake rescue efforts (AP)
AP – Earthquake survivors shivered through a second night outdoors in a remote Tibetan corner of western China with rescuers fighting altitude sickness and dealing with a lack of supplies as the death toll rose to 760.
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China earthquake, aftershocks strike near Tibet, leaving at least 400 dead
More than 400 people were killed and 10,000 injured Wednesday after a series of earthquakes struck a Tibetan area of southwest China.
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At least 300 dead, thousands injured as earthquake, aftershocks strike near Tibet
A series of strong earthquakes struck China’s western Qinghai province Wednesday, killing at least 300 people, injuring thousands and burying many others under toppled houses in a mountainous rural area, officials and state media said.
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Magnitude-4.4 earthquake shakes Southern Calif. (AP)
AP – An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert.
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Strong earthquake slams eastern Turkey, kills 51 (AP)
AP – A strong, pre-dawn earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people as it knocked down stone and mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.
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