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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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Indonesia Earthquake Kills at Least 54 People
The Wall Street Journal   07 December 2016   Indonesia   Asia  
Damage to a mosque in Pidie Jaya, Indonesia. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
<p>A strong undersea earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Aceh province early Wednesday, killing at least 54 people and sparking a frantic rescue effort in the rubble of dozens of collapsed and damaged buildings.</p><p>Maj. Gen. Tatang Sulaiman says 52 have died ...
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 ...