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Surrounded by her belongings an old
woman waits for transport even as mild
tremors continue to shake the town of
Morbi, 250 km northwest of Ahmedabad,
January 29, 2001. Around 300 people
have been killed in the town and
thousands of buildings have been
rendered unsafe. An estimated 20,000
people are believed to have been killed
in the earthquake that ravaged western
India on January 26. REUTERS/Savita
Kirloskar
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An injured man drinks tea in a mosque in
Kerman, the regional capital, after the
earthquake struck Bam, 1285 kilometres
southeast of Tehran December 26, 2003.A
pre-dawn earthquake razed much of the
ancient Silk Road city of Bam in Iran on
Friday, killing more than 20,000 people
and injuring tens of thousands more,
government officials said. REUTERS/
Morteza
Nikoubazl
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Salvadoran woman Julia Melendez, 82, her
broken arm in a cast, rests in San
Vicente, 40 miles from San Salvador
February 14, 2001. El Salvador was
struck on February 13 by a powerful new
6.1 Richter scale earthquake, killing at
least 170 people an injuring 1,557,
just one month after a big quake killed
844 people and left thousands homeless.
REUTERS/Jorge
Silva
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An elderly Indian tsunami survivor eats
in a relief camp in Kanniyakumari, some
740 km (463 miles) south from the
southern Indian city of Madras January 6,
2005. The December 26 tsunami,
triggered by an undersea earthquake off
Indonesia, has killed about 150,000
people across south and southeast Asia,
with more than 15,000 in India alone.
REUTERS/Sucheta
Das
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An elderly tsunami victim waits in line
to receive relief supplies in
Nagapattinam, in the southern Tamil Nadu
state, January 10, 2005. At least 156,
000 people were killed across Asia by
the December 26 earthquake and
subsequent tsunami, the most widespread
natural disaster in living memory. Well
over 100,000 are missing, and there is
little hope of finding many of them
alive. REUTERS/Kamal
Kishore
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A Salvadoran soldier evacuates a woman
November 1 after a river overflowed its
banks near the village of Chilanguera,
some 150 km east of San Salvador.
Hurricane Mitch killed some 11,000
people and caused billions of dollars
worth of damage in Central America. lg/
Photo by Luis Galdamez
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A Sri Lankan man identified as H.G.
Sirisena -- whom local newspapers said
had survived 14 days buried beneath the
rubble of a building that collapsed in
the December 26 tsunami -- lies on a
hospital bed January 9, 2005 after
surgery in Karapatiya. Local residents
cast doubt on his story, however, saying
he was a mentally-ill man who had been
spotted only days ago in the area.
REUTERS/Yves
Herman
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A man protects his face from dust and
the smell of decay as he passes the
wreckage of a shopping area in the
central city of Galle, southern Sri
Lanka January 1, 2005. A legion of ships
and planes delivered aid to millions of
Asian tsunami survivors on Saturday as
New Year celebrations around the world
paused to mourn victims of one of the
worst disasters in living memory that
has killed 124,622 so far. REUTERS/Yves
Herman
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A tsunami victim sits next to utensils
given out at a relief camp at a fishing
hamlet in Nagapattinam, in the southern
Indian state of Tamil Nadu, January 19,
2005. India's overall death toll from
Dec. 26 devastation has risen to more
than 16,000. REUTERS/Kamal
Kishore
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A Nicobar tribal man, who survived the
tsunami, helps his wife to prepare lunch
inside a relief camp in India's remote
Car Nicobar island January 2, 2005.
Eight days on, hungry and sick survivors
of the Indian Ocean tsunami are waiting
for food and medicine in growing
desperation as a multinational aid
operation tries to reach remote towns
ravaged by the waves. Picture taken
January 2, 2005. REUTERS/Altaf
Hussain
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A Haitian family escapes flood waters
that have surrounded their home and home
business, a garage, near Gonaives, Haiti,
on September 20, 2004. Haitians were
caught off guard by flooding resulting
from Tropical Storm Jeanne. REUTERS/
Daniel
Morel
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An Iranian woman Shahrbanoo Mazandarani (
R) was pulled alive and unscathed from
the rubble in Bam on January 3, 2004
more than eight full days after an
earthquake destroyed the city, receives
treatment at a field hospital. The woman,
believed to be in her 90s, was found in
good condition despite long odds of
surviving so long after the quake. She
was located first by sniffer dogs on
Saturday afternoon -- more than 8-1/2
days after the quake buried her under a
building. REUTERS/Morteza
Nikoubazl
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Maria Hernandez, a 72-year-old survivor
of the deadliest storm to hit Central
America in two centuries, looks at where
her home once stood in the village of
Nuevo Mundo, 150 km southeast of
Salvadoran capital San Salvador November
6. In Nuevo Mundo alone, 37 people died
in flash floods from water dumped by
Mitch and a further 70 are still missing.
The death toll for Central America as a
whole currently stands at 11,000, with
another 13,000 unaccounted for. ad/Photo
by Luis Galdamez
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An man prays in front of the rubble of
his house after a massive earthquake
destroyed it in the western Indian city
of Bhuj in this January 27, 2001 file
photo. It has been a month since the
Indian state of Gujurat was savaged by
an earthquake, and yet thousands of
people are still homeless, sick and
hungry. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski/File
photo
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An Indian Nicobari tribal man carries
his mother as they leave the Car Nicobar
island, India December 29, 2004, after a
tsunami hit the remote Andaman and
Nicobar islands chain, near the
epicentre of the quake, on Sunday.
Rescuers in India's Andaman and Nicobar
isles struggled on Thursday to assess
the toll from this week's tsunami in
areas untouched by the modern world but
said the destruction might not be as bad
as feared. Picture taken December 29,
2004. REUTERS/Jayanta
Shaw
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An Acehnese woman grimaces as she
receives medical treatment at a hospital
in the tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh on
the Indonesian island of Sumatra January
7, 2005. The world's largest peace-time
relief effort zeroed in on remote
northern areas of Indonesia's Sumatra
island where possibly hundreds of
thousands of tsunami survivors have yet
to receive aid. REUTERS/Darren
Whiteside
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An elderly woman prays during a mass in
memory of earthquake victims in the
shelter El Cafetalon in Santa Tecla,
January 21, 2001. On January 13, a 7.6
Richter scale earthquake rocked El
Salvador destoying some 46,000 homes
and killing more than 700 people.
REUTERS/Jorge
Silva
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A tribal woman from the remote Car
Nicobar island rests inside a tsunami
relief camp in Port Blair January 8,
2005. The Reserve Bank of India eased
rules for lending money to tsunami
victims on Saturday and advised banks to
do more to provide financial aid in
affected areas. REUTERS/Jayanta
Shaw
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An Indian woman wails after her house
was damaged near the Marina beach when a
tsunami hit the southern Indian city of
Madras December 26, 2004. At least 1,000
people have been killed after a tsunami
triggered by an earthquake in the Indian
Ocean hit India's southern coast on
Sunday, Interior Minister Shiv Raj Patil
told Aaj Tak television. REUTERS/
Babu
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A woman sits in a classroom used as a
shelter for homeless people in central
Choluteca, southern Honduras, November
26. Three weeks after Hurricane Mitch
hit the country, thousands of people
remain homeless and in need of basic aid
like medicine, drinking water and food.
db/Photo by Desmond Boylan
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