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09 Aug 2009 10:00

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World: Shakedown in Tokyo: A very scary quake hits Japan

  • 7.1 the quake’s strength; good thing Japan has regular quake drills source
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11 Jul 2009 10:35

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World: An earthquake in southwestern China hurts hundreds

  • 6.0 the strength of the earthquake in southwestern China source
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28 May 2009 10:22

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World: Honduras is on high tsunami alert following huge quake

  • 7.1 strength of the quake, which has only killed one so far source
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17 May 2009 23:53

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U.S.: If you’re in SoCal, you didn’t imagine that earthquake

  • 5.0 the Richter scale rating of the just-happened quake source
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28 Apr 2009 10:11

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World: Pope Benedict tours the Italian earthquake destruction

The pope says the Lord “is not deaf to the worried cry of so many families who lost everything.” source
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10 Apr 2009 11:16

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World: Italy’s billionaire prime minister offers his homes to quake victims

  • Silvio Berlusconi is Italy’s second-richest man. Victims of the devastating Italiian earthquake, which killed hundreds and left thousands more without homes, will be getting some help from P.M. Silvio Berlusconi. “I will do what I can too, by offering some of my houses,” Berlusconi said at a state funeral for the more than 200 killed. 17,000 survivors are currently living in tents, so it’d be a bit of an upgrade for them. source
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07 Apr 2009 20:44

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World: In the Italian earthquake debris, a promising sign

  • 98 age of the quake victim who was pulled out, alive source
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07 Apr 2009 08:14

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World: The toll from the Italy earthquake rose fast

  • 207 dead, 15 missing, 1,000+ injured in the Italy quake source
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06 Apr 2009 09:52

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World: Scenes from the Italy earthquake: Numbers don’t say enough

The death toll and destruction in Italy needs to be seen in picture form. The NYT has some very powerful ones. source
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06 Apr 2009 08:54

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World: Historic buildings took the brunt of the Italy quake

  • Most of the buildings in the city center are more than a 100 years old, and so they have walls that are a lot weaker than other palazzi that are made of reinforced concrete. So there were a lot more damages actually inside the city.
  • Joshua Brothers • An American missionary in L’Aquila, Italy, near the epicenter of the deadly earthquake. Another resident, Maria Francesco, said it “was the apocalypse, our house collapsed. It’s destroyed, and there’s nothing left to recover.” • source
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