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Haiti official: Cholera outbreak is easing (AP)

October 25th, 2010

A relative pushes a broken car carrying the coffin containing the remains of Tikont Dolamard, 36, who died of cholera in Dessalines, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010. A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts hoping to keep the disease from reaching the camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince. Health officials said at least 250 people had died and there are over 3,000 sick. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A cholera outbreak showed signs of easing Monday after killing more than 250 people in a sweep through rural Haiti, but experts warned that the earthquake-devastated country’s first…

In Haiti, cholera could heighten earthquake misery (AP)

October 24th, 2010

A child suffering cholera symptoms cries as she is comforted by a woman at a hospital in Grande-Saline, Haiti, Saturday Oct. 23, 2010. A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts Saturday hoping to keep the disease from reaching the camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince. Health officials said at least 208 people had died. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A cholera outbreak that already has left 250 people dead and more than 3,000 sickened is at the doorstep of an enormous potential breeding ground: the squalid camps…

Bill Clinton lobbies for earthquake aid to Haiti (AP)

October 6th, 2010

Former president and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, arrives to visit people who were displaced by the earthquake at the Petionville Golf Club that is being used as a camp for the displaced in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Former President Bill Clinton said desperately needed U.S. aid is coming to Haiti despite delays after listening on Wednesday to refugees in a sprawling homeless camp complain of…

Storm shreds aging tents in Haiti earthquake camps (AP)

September 26th, 2010

A girl ties her hair next to her tent after it fell down due to heavy rain at a camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. A storm blasted through Haiti's capital on Friday, killing at least five people as it tore down trees, billboards and tent homes, authorities said.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - The sudden, powerful storm that ripped through Haiti’s battered capital destroyed thousands of tents in the homeless camps where more than 1.3 million people live eight months after…

Small tsunami generated after Vanuatu earthquake (AP)

August 10th, 2010

AP - Panicked residents of Vanuatu raced for higher ground after a powerful earthquake rattled the South Pacific island nation and generated a small tsunami on Tuesday.

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Magnitude-5.0 earthquake reported in Canada (AP)

June 23rd, 2010

Senators, parliamentarians and their staff are shown after being evacuated from Parliament Buildings following an earthquake in Ottawa, Canada on Wednesday June 23, 2010. A magnitude-5.0 earthquake struck at the Ontario-Quebec border region of Canada on Wednesday, shaking homes and businesses from Toronto to the states of New York and Michigan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld)AP - A magnitude-5.0 earthquake struck at the Ontario-Quebec border region of Canada on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and homes and businesses were shaken from Canada’s capital in…

Strong earthquake shakes northern Japan (AP)

June 13th, 2010

AP - A strong earthquake rattled northern Japan on Sunday, and authorities said no tsunami was expected in the area. There were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries.

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China mourns earthquake victims (AP)

April 21st, 2010

Four-year-old girl Cairen Baji is carried by a rescue worker after they dug her and an elderly woman out from a collapsed mud house near Jiegu town in earthquake-hit Yushu county in west China's Qinghai province on Monday, April 19, 2010. Relatives kept Wujian Cuomao, 68, and Cairen Baji alive for five days by sending them food and water through gaps in the rubble with the help of bamboo poles, state broadcaster CCTV said. (AP Photo)**CHINA OUT**AP - Bowing their heads in silent tribute, thousands of officials, soldiers and civilians gathered Wednesday in ceremonies across China to mourn the 2,064 victims killed in a devastating quake…

Tibetans begin cremating victims of China quake (AP)

April 17th, 2010

Tibetan residents sit on a hillside to observe a mass cremation for victims of Wednesday's earthquake in Yushu County, northwest China's Qinghai province, Saturday, April 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Hundreds of victims of an earthquake that struck western China more than 72 hours ago were cremated Saturday as necessity forced Tibeans to break with local burial traditions.


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USGS: 7.8 quake off Sumatra (AP)

April 6th, 2010

AP - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has rattled Indonesia’s northwest island of Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Tuesday.

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