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13 Mar 2011 11:32

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World: Japan could face some really big aftershocks very soon

  • 70% the chance that a large aftershock – 7.0 or higher – will hit Japan in the next three days
  • 50% the chance that a large aftershock will hit Japan in the three days following that source

04 Sep 2010 22:21

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World: Christchurch, New Zealand quake’s cost almost entirely monetary

  • no
    deaths
    the good part about yesterday’s big quake in New Zealand
  • $1.4 billion the estimate of damages from the quake; that’s the bad part source

27 Feb 2010 21:18

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World: Chile earthquake: The latest numbers and figures

  • 214+ people killed in Chile as a result of the earthquake
  • 50+ aftershocks have hit in and around the country in the last 24 hours
  • 1.5M homes have been damaged by the huge quake source

27 Feb 2010 13:19

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World: Chile earthquake: More shocking numbers to note

  • 33 aftershocks in the wake of the earthquake, the latest in Argentina
  • 700+ number of times the quake is stronger than the Haiti quake source