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Alaska residents try to return to normalcy after earthquake rocks region
CNN   03 December 2018   USA   Alaska, Anchorage  
People walk along a road in Wasilla after Friday's earthquake.
<p>The 7.0-magnitude earthquake sent residents scurrying for cover when it hit at about 8:30 a.m. Friday. The quake was centered 10 miles northeast of Anchorage.<br />The majority of the aftershocks were of a magnitude 2.5 or weaker, meaning they weren't likely ...
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20 feared missing after powerful Japan earthquake causes landslides
CBC News, YouTube   06 September 2018   Japan   Hokkaido  
The quake triggered landslides, bringing down several houses. (AFP/Getty Images)
<p>A powerful earthquake rocked Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido early Thursday, triggering landslides that crushed homes, knocking out power and forcing a nuclear power plant to switch to a backup generator.</p><p>The magnitude 6.7 earthquake ...
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More than 140 people missing after Taiwan earthquake
CBC News   06 February 2018   Taiwan   Hualien  
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, centre back-facing, is briefed Wednesday at the site of a collapsed building from an earthquake in Hualien, southeastern Taiwan. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)
<p>A rescue crew on Wednesday was trying to free two people from a hotel whose ground floor caved after a strong earthquake hit near Taiwan's east coast and killed at least four people.</p> <p>The shallow, magnitude-6.4 quake that struck late Tuesday night ...
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Iran-Iraq earthquake: death toll rises to 335
The Guardian   13 November 2017   Iran - Iraq   Iran - Iraq border  
Destroyed buildings in Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran Photograph: Pouria Pakizeh/AP
<p>A powerful magnitude-7.3 earthquake has rocked the northern border region between Iran and Iraq, killing more than 328 people in Iran and seven in Iraq and injuring thousands more.</p><p>Iran’s semi-official Isna news agency raised the death toll to 328 ...
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Greece-Turkey earthquake: Two killed on island of Kos
BBC NEWS   21 July 2017   Greece   Kos  
The quake damaged a number of older buildings on the island of Kos / REUTERS
<p>A strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has killed at least two people on the Greek island of Kos, officials say.<br>The 6.7-magnitude quake hit 12km (seven miles) north-east of Kos, near the Turkish coast, with a depth of 10km, the US Geological Survey said.<br>At ...
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Italy earthquakes: Many feared dead in hotel buried by avalanche
The Independent   19 January 2017   Italy   Europe  
A 5.3 earthquake hit Central Italy on 18 January 2017 (USGS)
<p>Thirty people are missing after an avalanche buried a small hotel in the mountains of central Italy after a series of earthquakes, authorities say.</p> <p>Italian media said the avalanche covered the three-storey hotel in Abruzzo, an earthquake-hit zone ...
Italy earthquake: Rome schools and metro evacuated as four earthquakes strike
The Independent   18 January 2017   Italy   Europe  
A 5.3 earthquake was the first to hit (USGS)
<p>Four earthquakes have struck Italy, shaking buildings in Rome and Florence just months after almost 300 people were killed in one of the worst disasters in living memory.</p> <p>Residents of the capital described their homes and offices shaking when the ...
Solomon Islands hit by powerful aftershocks after magnitude-7.8 quake
ABC News   09 December 2016   Solomon Islands   Oceania  
Earthquake damage to buildings in Kirakira, the provincial capital of Makira Province, Solomon Islands (credit: Edith Hanuagi)
<p>Residents in Solomon Islands were hit by powerful aftershocks following a magnitude-7.8 earthquake which struck 130 kilometres from the capital Honiara.</p><p>Authorities are starting to receive reports of damage from the earthquake, with police saying ...
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Monday's earthquake lifted seabed around Kaikoura 'by at least a metre', scientists confirm
The New Daily   18 November 2016   New Zealand   Oceania  
Before (March 2016)/After (Nov 2016) Worldview 2 images of Waipapa Bay (c) NextView. Same location as helicopter pic (source: Ryan Gold-Twitter)
<p>This week’s New Zealand earthquake has lifted the seabed around Kaikoura by at least 1m, scientists have told NZ media.</p><p>Among the pictures that have emerged from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake early on Monday, some of the most striking have been those ...
New Zealand quake causes extensive damage
The construction index   15 November 2016   New Zealand   Oceania  
Landslide in Kaikoura (source: The Construction Index)
<p>Aerial images of the area affected by yesterday&rsquo;s earthquake and aftershocks in New Zealand have revealed damage to essential connections and basic infrastructure, said acting civil defence minister Gerry Brownlee.</p> <p>The popular tourist spot ...