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A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy north of Florence on Monday morning, sending residents into the streets but causing no immediate damage, authorities said. Schools were closed in some areas as a precaution and trains were delayed pending checks on the railway lines. Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) measured the quake at […]
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A powerful earthquake that shook Morocco killed more than 600 people, officials said Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing their homes in the middle of the night. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck a mountainous area 72 kilometres (45 miles) southwest of tourist hotspot Marrakesh at 11:11 pm (2211 GMT) Friday, the US Geological Survey reported. Strong tremors […]
Continue ReadingA 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the Alaskan peninsula late Saturday local time, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, briefly sparking a tsunami warning. The USGS revised the quake’s magnitude down from an initial 7.4. The shallow quake hit at 10:48 pm Saturday (0648 GMT Sunday), about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of the […]
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Hundreds of people including Ghana’s president are paying their last respects to Christian Atsu, who died in last month’s earthquake in Turkey. His funeral is being held outside State House in Ghana’s capital, Accra. “In life I love you darling, in death I’ll do the same,” read the tearful tribute from the footballer’s widow, Marie-Claire […]
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There’s been an outpouring of grief following the confirmation of Christian Atsu’s death. John Terry led tributes to the former Chelsea and Newcastle United winger Atsu, who was confirmed to have died in the earthquakes that hit Turkey earlier this month. Atsu was reported to be missing in the immediate aftermath of the tremors that […]
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Turkish rescuers on Saturday pulled three people, including a child, alive from the rubble 13 days after a massive quake claimed tens of thousands of lives, but one later died, a Turkey media platform reported. The channel did not provide any further details. A journalist for Turkish television channel NTV later reported that one of […]
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Turkish rescuers on Thursday pulled a 17-year-girl and a woman in her 20s from the rubble of last week’s devastating earthquake, as hopes fade of finding more survivors. Aleyna Olmez, 17, was rescued 248 hours after the 7.8-magnitude quake flattened entire cities, killing nearly 40,000 people across southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria. “She looked […]
Continue ReadingRescuers on Sunday pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble nearly a week after a powerful earthquake devastated huge areas of Turkey and Syria, killing more than 28,000 people. UN relief chief Martin Griffiths warned that the death toll was likely to at least double, while denouncing a failure to provide […]
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A magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Papua province on Thursday, killing four people, according to an official. Residents had already recovered the four victims’ bodies from the sea. According to Asep Khalid, the head of the local disaster management agency, they were in a waterfront cafe when the quake struck the provincial capital of Jayapura and […]
Continue ReadingEmergency workers in Turkey on Thursday rescued a mother with her two children after they had spent about 78 hours under the earthquake rubble. Pictures show how helpers carried the woman and the children on a stretcher and in slings to the ambulance amid applause from bystanders. They had been holding out under the rubble […]
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