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A severe earthquake rocks the city of Boston, Massachusetts. |
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Sicilian town ripped apart by earthquake. |
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Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die |
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A large earthquake strikes Innsbruck |
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An earthquake measuring 6.25 on the Richter scale destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die.
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A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills approximately 70,000 people. |
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A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan killing 30,000 people. |
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In the southern Indian state of Kerala, pyres of Tsunami victims bodies are burned on the beach at Alappad to avoid disease. Indonesian military teams reach the devastated west coast of Sumatra island and find thousands of casualties bringing the death toll across 12 Asian nations to 76,700. The I ... |
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A magnitude 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60 people and resulting in $30B of damage.
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An earthquake in Gujarat, India results in more than 20,000 deaths. |
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An earthquake in northeastern Iran, near the town of Ardekul, leaves 2400 dead. |
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A magnitude 7.7 Earthquake hits Iran along with hundreds of aftershocks that result in 50,000 fatalities. |
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A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rumbles northern Japan around 11:16 a.m. Monday (0116 GMT), was centered close to the earth's surface in the Chuetsu area of Niigata prefecture. Six people are injured but no danger of tsunami was triggered. |
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Massive tsunamis triggered by an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter Scale under the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra wipe out coastal areas across southeastern Asia, killing more than 4,800 people in Sri Lanka and India. |
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The death toll for the Asian Tsunami reaches 23,000+ and the United Nations begins to warn of a health epidemic crisis. |
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Following additional body tallies in Indonesia, the death toll from the recent magnitude 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami reaches 52,000. At the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island, workers find 10,000 people killed in a single town near the epicenter of the quake and that starving surviv ... |
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The death count associated with the Indian Ocean tsunami rises over 120,000 as millions of people scramble for food and fresh water. Throngs of people besiege aid workers distributing food, with only the strongest and fastest able to acquire what they need to live. "As many as five million people ... |
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Aid is rushed to millions of survivors of the devastating tsunami that swept across southern Asia and the death toll rises above 135,000. |
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