An unidentifed Iranian woman (C) mourns
the death of her child, with her family
members following a mass burial at a
cemetery in the ancient Silk Road city
of Bam in southeast Iran, December 30,
2003. The death toll from Friday's
earthquake in Iran may reach 50,000,
government officials told Reuters on
Tuesday as relief workers called for
more blankets, clothing and medicines
for tens of thousands of survivors.
REUTERS/Wolfgang
Rattay
REF: IRAN QUAKE
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PAR97D:MOZAMBIQUE-FLOODS:MUNDIAL,
MOZAMBIQUE,1MAR00 - Mozambican villagers
sit on their rooftop awaiting rescue as
Sergeant Alwyn Pieterse (L) from the
South African National Defence Force (
SANDF) approaches in the flooded village
of Mundial some 150 km north of Maputo
which is under water after the Limpopo
river burst it's banks, March 1. An
estimated 100,000 people are still
trapped in trees and on rooftops after
three weeks of flooding in central
Mozambique. jes/POOL/Photo by Odd
Andersen
REUTERS
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An Indian tsunami survivor reacts as she
looks at the debris of destroyed houses
being burnt by Indian workers in a
fishing hamlet in Nagapattinam, 350 km (
219 miles) south of the Indian city of
Madras January 4, 2005. An army of aid
workers raced on Tuesday to supply food
and water to millions of tsunami victims
and the United Nations warned a death
toll of 150,000 would climb as more
bodies are found and disease stalks
survivors. REUTERS/Arko
Datta
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A Sri Lankan tsunami survivor looks out
of a window at a shelter for the
displaced in the town of Kalmunai on Sri
Lanka's east coast January 14, 2005.
REUTERS/Arko
Datta
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An Indonesian refugee holds her son
onboard a U.S. military transport plane
at Banda Aceh airport January 3, 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. REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
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Catalina Lopez looks through the roof of
her destroyed home as she searches for
useful belongings inside the rubble in
San Juan Tepezontes, 20 miles from San
Salvador, February 15, 2001. El
Salvador was struck by a powerful new 6.
1 richter scale earthquake on February
13, killing at least 276 people,
injuring 2432, and leaving 76 missing,
just one month after a larger quake
killed 844 people and left thousands
homeless. REUTERS/Jorge
Silva
REF: SALVADOR QUAKE
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Women mourn the death of victims killed
when a tsunami hit on Sunday during
their burial in Cuddalore, 180 km (112
miles) south of the southern Indian city
of Madras December 27, 2004. Hundreds
of Indians scattered flower petals on
the sea and sacrificed chickens on
Monday to pray for the safe return of
those carried away in a tidal wave
triggered by an earthquake, as officials
warned of more high waves. REUTERS/Arko
Datta
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Earthquake survivors receive donated
food in San Miguel Tepezonte,
approximately 40 miles (64 km) east of
the capital, February 14, 2001. El
Salvador was struck on Tuesday by a new
powerful earthquake that killed at least
255 and injuring 2261 people. REUTERS/
Kimberly
White
REF: QUAKE SALVADOR
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Hawa Bhai, a 55-year-old woman, lies
inside a Red Cross hospital in the
western town of Bhuj on February 8, 2001.
Bhuj is the main city of Kutch in the
western state of Gujarat, where some 30,
000 people were killed by the January 26
earthquake and hundreds of thousands
were left homeless, hungry and
vulnerable to water-borne diseases.
REUTERS/Jayanta
Shaw
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%method>
An unidentifed Iranian woman (C) mourns
the death of her child, with her family
members following a mass burial at a
cemetery in the ancient Silk Road city
of Bam in southeast Iran, December 30,
2003. The death toll from Friday's
earthquake in Iran may reach 50,000,
government officials told Reuters on
Tuesday as relief workers called for
more blankets, clothing and medicines
for tens of thousands of survivors.
REUTERS/Wolfgang
Rattay
REF: IRAN QUAKE
%method>
Shanta Bai stands in front of he
destroyed house as she waits for the
debris to be cleared in the village of
Adhoi in the western Indian state of
Gujarat February 5, 2001. The estimated
death toll from the massive January 26
earthquake stands at 30,000 people.
REUTERS/Kamal
Kishore
REF: QUAKE INDIA
%method>
An Acehnese woman holds her baby in a
tent at a refugee camp in the tsunami-
hit city of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian
island of Sumatra January 6, 2005. The
United Nations wants major donors to
allocate nearly $1 billion of promised
monies for spending on basic needs for
victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami over
the next six months. REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
REF: ACE22D2
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Women stand in line to register aid
applications at the Mahmoud Ladies
School which is being used as a refugee
shelter for homeless tsunami families in
Kalmunai on Sri Lanka's east coast
January 10, 2005. The death toll from
the Asian tsunami, triggered by a
magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Indonesia
on December 26, stood at 156,193 people,
government and health officials said.
REUTERS/Kieran
Doherty
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Salvadorean Margarita Lopez stands in
front of the remains of her crushed home
in Santa Tecla, San Salvador, January 14,
2001. Rescue workers searched early
Sunday for survivors after an earthquake
of 7.6 magnitude left more than 60
people dead and hundreds missing in El
Salvador and Guatemala, officials said.
REUTERS/Jorge
Silva
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%method>
Cecilia Rivera weeps as she mourns her
mother and brother at the site where her
home once stood in the Las Colinas
neighbourhood of Santa Tecla, a San
Salvador suburb, January 16, 2001.
Cecilia left for work on the morning of
January 13, and shortly after 11:30am
her home was buried under a mountain of
earth as the hillside above gave way
during a powerful 7.6 Richter scale
earthquake which rocked El Salvador.
Over six hundred people are now known to
have died in the earthquake. REUTERS/
Andrew
Winning
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Mae Zahir, who travelled from Los
Angeles to Bam to recover her father's
remains holds old family crystal, which
survived the earthquake, as she looks in
disbelief at the wreck which was her
childhood home December 31, 2003.
REUTERS/Caren
Firouz
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%method>
TEG03D:WEATHER-MITCH:LAS DELICIAS,
HONDURAS,23NOV98 - A Honduran woman and
child wait to be handed emergency
supplies November 22 in the Honduran &
quotLas Delicias" sector on the
river Coco bordering with Nicaragua. The
passage of Hurricane Mitch left several
thousand dead, 12,000 missing and
destroyed the country's communications,
leaving tens of thousands homeless and
isolated. The Las Delicias inhabitants
have only received two loads of
emergency supplies from these small
Honduran air force helicopters since the
disaster three weeks ago, when their
homes were washed away by the hurricane.
db/Photo by Desmond Boylan
REUTERS
REF: WEATHER MITCH
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Earthquake victim Desai Bai, 25, sits in
a field hospital at Lodai village, some
40 kms from Bhuj January 31, 2001.
Hopes of finding more trapped survivors
from India's earthquake dimmed on
Wednesday and authorities turned their
attention to caring for the homeless and
preventing looting across the ravaged
region. REUTERS/Pawel
Kopczynski
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An Indian woman mourns the death of her
relative (R) who was killed in tsunami
on Sunday in Cuddalore, some 180 km (112
miles) south of the southern Indian city
of Madras December 28, 2004. REUTERS/
Arko
Datta
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MAP01D:MOZAMBIQUE-WEATHER:CHOKWE,
MOZAMBIQUE,25FEB00 - A Mozambican woman
waits at Chokwe bridge to be ferried to
Chinhacanine village February 25.
Mozambique officials said at least 150
people have died, more than 200,000 have
been left homeless and 800,000 are at
risk since floods began two weeks ago.
jn/Photo by Juda Ngwenya
REUTERS
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MAP01D:MOZAMBIQUE-FLOODS:CHOKWE,
MOZAMBIQUE,29FEB00 - A Mozambican woman
who spent three nights in the top
branches of a tree, waits to be
airlifted by helicopter in Chokwe
province February 29 after heavy rains
flooded Chokwe province north of Maputo.
President Joaquim Chissano warned on
Tuesday that thousands of Mozambicans
were still stranded by rising water as
donations started to pour in from around
the world after three weeks of
devastating flooding. jn/POOL/Photo
by Juda Ngwenya
REUTERS
REF: MOZAMBIQUE FLOODS
%method>
Haulath Abdus Samad carries her 14-day-
old baby, called Tsunami, at their home
in Guraiudhoo island, Maldives on
January 9, 2005. Baby Tsunami was born
on December 26 as the Asian tsunami hit
the family's home island killing her one-
year-old elder brother. REUTERS/
Anuruddha
Lokuhapuarachchi
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