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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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Chile quake offers tough lessons for US coast (AP)

April 6th, 2010

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2010 file photo, vehicles sit overturned after a highway collapsed due to the earthquake near Santiago. Chile's advanced construction codes, bustling coastal cities, modern skyscrapers and veteran emergency services were all put to the test after the 8.8-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami on Feb. 27, lessons that California, Oregon and Washington have yet to fully learn despite deep experience with lesser quakes. ( AP Photo/David Lillo, File)AP - As the Easter earthquake shook Southern California, the state’s disaster management chief was thousands of miles away in Chile, examining what experts say is the best case study…

Haiti schools reopen for 1st time since quake (AP)

April 5th, 2010

Students buy water at a school in the Cite Soleil slum, Port-au-Prince, Monday, April 5, 2010. The Jan. 12 quake damaged or destroyed some 4,000 schools. Schools are opening across Haiti's capital for the first time since a devastating earthquake hit nearly three months ago. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - The official reopening of schools among the ruins of Haiti’s capital brought unbridled joy Monday to students like 12-year-old Moris Rachelle.


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Strong quake kills 2 in Mexico, rattles US states (AP)

April 5th, 2010

Men stand next to cracks on a street in Mexicali, Mexico, early Monday, April 5, 2010, aftger a powerful earthquake struck. The quake shook buildings in Mexico, California and Arizona.  (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Aftershocks rattled the southwest Mexico-U.S. border on Monday morning in the aftermath of a major earthquake that killed two people, blacked out cities and forced the evacuation of…

Millions in Calif., Ariz., Mexico feel 7.2 quake (AP)

April 5th, 2010

People gather at a parking lot outside their buildings after 6.9 earthquake hit the area in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, April 4, 2010. According to the US Geological Survey a 6.9 magnitude earthquake was registered 26 kms (around 16 miles) south west Guadalupe Victoria, in the Mexican state of Baja California. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - One of the strongest earthquakes to hit Southern California in decades shook tens of millions of people in two countries and three states on Sunday, swaying buildings from…

Haiti to use quake rubble in capital’s rebuilding (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

A man prays in a camp for people displaced by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Friday, April 2, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - The rubble from Haiti’s shattered capital is rising in heaps at the port, dumped for sorting and recycling by a fleet of heavy, exhaust-belching trucks.


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Hemorrhaging cabernet: Quake hits Chile winemakers (AP)

March 23rd, 2010

Brett Jackson, chief of the Valdivieso winemaker company, stands next to collapsed wine barrels in Lontue, Chile, Saturday, March 20, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit central Chile last Feb. 27, causing widespread damage, including giant losses in the wine business. The country's major wine operations can collect insurance, repair infrastructure and ride out a rocky season, but smaller producers may need to make do with reduced capacity or be forced out of the market. (AP Photo/Sebastian Martinez)AP - When Chile’s worst earthquake in 50 years hit, Alvaro Galan bolted out of bed and ran, still in pajamas, to his winery next door.


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UN: 3 killed in quake collapse in northern Haiti (AP)

March 21st, 2010

AP - A small earthquake struck northern Haiti early Sunday, collapsing an apartment building and killing at least three people, a U.N. spokesman said.

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Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath (AP)

March 16th, 2010

In this photo taken March 14, 2010, women wait to receive medical attention for them and their children outside the women's clinic run by the Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Operation, at the makeshift camp for earthquake survivors in the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince. Women, girls and children as young as 2 years old, already traumatized by the loss of homes and loved ones in Haiti's earthquake, now are falling victim to rapists in sprawling and unmanageable tent cities that have become home to hundreds of thousands of people. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men.


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UN chief sees dangers up-close in Haiti quake camp (AP)

March 14th, 2010

Women carry a bag of rice on their heads at a food  distribution center in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, March 14, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12 left more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised Haitians on Sunday that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as it suffers from a shortage of shelter and growing violence…