Chilean rescuers used shovels and sledgehammers on Sunday to find survivors of a huge earthquake in Chile that unleashed a Pacific tsunami.
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/ 28 February 2010
Fearful Chileans camped outside on Sunday in towns shattered by a massive earthquake, as officials struggled to grasp the scale of the damage.
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/ 28 February 2010
One of the world’s most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile on Saturday, killing at least 214 people.
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/ 27 February 2010
A massive magnitude-8,8 earthquake struck south-central Chile early on Saturday, killing at least 78 people and knocking down homes and hospitals.
A series of quakes has left people too frightened to sleep indoors until a geological survey is concluded.
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/ 19 January 2010
Security forces struggled on Tuesday to control looters in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
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/ 18 January 2010
The Red Cross warned on Monday that violence by desperate Haitians is growing, despite the mammoth international earthquake relief operation.
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/ 16 January 2010
As many as 200 000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and three-quarters of the capital will need to be rebuilt.
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/ 15 January 2010
Thousands of people injured in Haiti’s massive earthquake spent a third night twisted in pain, lying on sidewalks and waiting for help.
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/ 15 January 2010
The South African government on Thursday pledged R1-million for the relief effort in Haiti following the massive earthquake in the Caribbean republic.
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/ 14 January 2010
Traumatised Haitians slept out in parks and streets on Thursday, fearing aftershocks to the earthquake that flattened homes and buried people.
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/ 14 January 2010
Rescuers and relief supplies head to Haiti as the world launches a relief operation after an earthquake feared to have killed 100 000 people.
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/ 13 January 2010
A major earthquake rocked Haiti on Tuesday, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties.
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/ 21 December 2009
Malawi on Monday launched an emergency appeal for food and tents for victims of a strong weekend earthquake.
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/ 21 December 2009
A strong earthquake has destroyed several buildings in Malawi, killing at least three people and injuring about 200, a government official said.
Villages buried in landslides triggered by last week’s earthquake may be declared mass graves, Indonesian authorities said on Wednesday.
Indonesia called off the search for survivors in the quake-hit city of Padang on Monday as officials sought to contain the risk of disease.
Thousands missing after earthquake devastates countryside and rescue workers begin to look for bodies rather than survivors.
Eight people were believed to be still alive in the ruins of a hotel on Saturday, nearly three days after a strong quake hit Indonesia’s Padang.
Quake-hit Indonesia appealed for foreign aid on Friday as the stench of decomposing bodies hung over wrecked buildings.
Asian countries reeled from the full force of nature’s fury on Thursday with thousands feared dead in an onslaught of earthquakes and typhoons.
Thousands may have died in an earthquake that struck the city of Padang on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, a minister said on Thursday.
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/ 4 September 2009
Rescuers in Indonesia continued digging on Friday to reach dozens buried by a major earthquake that killed at least 63 people.
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/ 3 September 2009
Rescue workers on Indonesia’s Java Island searched by hand on Thursday for dozens of people trapped by an earthquake that killed at least 46.
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/ 2 September 2009
An earthquake killed at least 15 people and forced thousands to evacuate on Indonesia’s main island, the country’s disaster management agency said.
A 6,9-magnitude quake sparked panic in Indonesia’s western Sumatra on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
New Zealand and Australia cancel tsunami warnings after an earthquake struck the South of New Zealand, causing minor damage but no injuries.
Dozens of people are feared killed by two strong earthquakes that struck eastern Afghanistan early on Saturday, officials said.
A mass funeral for nearly 200 victims of Italy’s worst earthquake in 30 years will be held on Saturday as the country observes a day of mourning.
Fresh aftershocks caused panic in Italy’s earthquake zone on Thursday, terrifying thousands of homeless victims sleeping in crowded tent camps.
Rescuers searched by lamplight in freezing temperatures for a second night for survivors of an earthquake in central Italy.
Rescuers used mechanical diggers and their hands to search on Tuesday for survivors of Italy’s worst quake in three decades which killed nearly 180.