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| 2010 Oct.25 |
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7.5-magnitude quake strikes off coast A local tsunami watch was lifted about two hours later. The epicenter was located 240 km (149 miles) south of Padang at a depth of 33 km
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| 2009 Oct.3 |
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Hopes dim for quake-hit Sumatra Aid workers are increasingly unlikely to find survivors under the rubble, as they push into devastated remote areas
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| 2009 Oct.3 |
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Up to 4,000 buried in quake rubble Local disaster management officials put the death toll at 540. People used hammers, chisels and bare hands to dig through debris for survivors
| Some villages were completely destroyed in landslides, with access roads torn apart preventing medical teams reaching the injured
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| 2009 Oct.2 |
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Entire villages buried by quakes  90 percent of the residents -- as many as a few hundred people -- were buried, just one piece of the devastation from two large earthquakes
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| 2009 Oct.1 |
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Quake deaths pass 1,000  Map of Padang Indonesia Corpses lay stacked outside hospitals, as night fell casting nearly the entire city in darkness hours after the region's second strong earthquake
| Rescuers free man trapped in 'pancaked' Indonesian hotel. Rescuers are working into the night to find survivors in the rubble of hundreds of collapsed buildings
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| 2009 Sep.30 |
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Indonesia quake death kills thousands Map of Padang Indonesia Thousands more trapped by collapsed buildings and houses. The quake caused widespread power and phone outages
| Buildings, including at least two hospitals, were brought down by the 7.6 magnitude quake
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| 2007 Mar.6 |
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Quake kills at least 70 Map of Padang Indonesia A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake is injuring hundreds more as buildings collapsed. The quake followed by strong aftershocks
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