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submitted by Ari 54 weeks 6 days 19 hours 23 minutes ago
Even though the government is chasing people away -- was Gavin REALLY in Hawaii? -- from helping clean up the spill, a bunch of people have been going out to Ocean Beach and cleaning up on their own. Check this out....
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 5 weeks 14 hours 39 minutes ago
AFP - A powerful earthquake in southwest Pakistan killed more than 100 people early Wednesday, destroying mud homes and sending survivors screaming into the streets in panic.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 11 weeks 4 days 1 hour 39 minutes ago
Shards of glass tumbled from the Houston skyline, millions were left without power and the nation's oil production was crippled Saturday as unforgiving Hurricane Ike tore up Texas.
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submitted by Miles Walker 58 weeks 1 day 6 hours 19 minutes ago
More than a dozen wildfires continued to rage in southern California, driven by shifting, gusting winds that make them all but impossible to stop.
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submitted by AB 82 weeks 4 days 2 hours 22 minutes ago
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) -- Most of this southwest Kansas town was destroyed by a tornado, part of a violent storm system blamed for at least seven deaths, officials said Saturday amid warnings of more severe weather....
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submitted by Oscar Contreras 58 weeks 7 hours 10 minutes ago
Firefighters today began to wrestle control of the broad swath of fires that consumed nearly 500,000 acres of land and displaced half a million residents during four days of terrifying conflagration throughout Southern California.
While a number of fires continued to burn around San Diego and...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 57 weeks 6 days 22 hours 55 minutes ago
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - California firefighters made headway in reining in 18 wildfires on Wednesday as hot winds abated and San Diego said it hoped to let some of the 500,000 evacuees start returning home.
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submitted by Miles Walker 29 weeks 2 days 1 hour 26 minutes ago
Reuters - U.S. intelligence analysts are examining spy satellite images of China's Sichuan province, where a powerful earthquake is believed to have killed 3,000 to 5,000 people, a defense official said on Monday.
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submitted by GG92 30 weeks 1 day 16 hours 25 minutes ago
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thirty thousand people are missing in Myanmar after this weekend's devastating cyclone, in addition to a death toll of 15,000, Thai Foreign Minister Noppadol Pattama said after a meeting with Myanmar's ambassador to Bangkok.
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submitted by JKM 27 weeks 3 days 5 hours 41 minutes ago
Nearly 70 dams scarred by the force of China's most powerful earthquake in three decades were in danger of bursting, rattled again Sunday by one of the strongest aftershocks since the initial disaster.
Meanwhile, soldiers carrying explosives hiked to a lake formed by a blocked river near...(more)
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submitted by GG92 27 weeks 2 days 23 hours 19 minutes ago
The earthquake’s destruction of Xinjian Primary School was swift and complete. Hundreds of children were crushed as the floors collapsed in a deluge of falling bricks and concrete. Days later, as curiosity seekers came with video cameras and as parents came to grieve, the four-story school...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 29 weeks 1 day 21 hours 28 minutes ago
This is a big quake -- but what is striking to me is how long this quake lasts. The damage must be staggering..
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