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And then deadly earthquakes in Mexico City.

DEADLY DISASTER The quake that ruptured off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, mostly because it set off an enormous tsunami that destroyed nearby island communities.

Previous examples were the conviction of Italian researchers for their failure to warn about the risk of a deadly earthquake in L'Aquila and the recent debate about the Stamina Foundation, which offers stem cell therapies that many scientists say aren't scientifically proven.

Given the similarly deadly earthquake in nearby L'Aquila in 2009 and the region's shaky history, with 30,000 killed in Avezanno in 1915, I asked Cossu if there was any move to reconsider lifestyles in the face of the clear dangers.

Farmers drilling ever deeper wells over decades to water their crops likely contributed to a deadly earthquake in southern Spain last year, a new study suggests.

Not exact matches

The Mexican Red Cross has multiple teams assisting in search and rescue operations following this week's deadly 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico.

These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.

The devastating tsunami that was generated in the Indian Ocean in 2004 after a magnitude 9 earthquake has been recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history after it caused over 230,000 deaths in 14 countries.

Scientists have shown how earthquakes and storms in the Himalaya can increase the impact of deadly floods in one of Earth's most densely populated areas.

In fact, the Indonesian Sumatra earthquake in December 2004 that spawned a deadly tsunami moved so much water that it slightly changed our planet's shape and sped its rotation by 2.68 microseconds, or nearly three millionths of a seconIn fact, the Indonesian Sumatra earthquake in December 2004 that spawned a deadly tsunami moved so much water that it slightly changed our planet's shape and sped its rotation by 2.68 microseconds, or nearly three millionths of a seconin December 2004 that spawned a deadly tsunami moved so much water that it slightly changed our planet's shape and sped its rotation by 2.68 microseconds, or nearly three millionths of a second.

Heat waves are the deadliest weather threat in the United States, killing more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined.

The deadly cholera epidemic that rocked earthquake - shattered Haiti in 2010, claiming 8,000 lives and counting, has rallied the public health community to seek water and sewer improvements that, combined with vaccination, could prevent some 89,000 future cholera infections.

The massive earthquake that rocked Japan on 11 March 2011 killed more than 20,000 people, making it one of the most deadly natural disasters in the country's history.

The former head of Italy's civil protection department, Guido Bertolaso, is to be investigated for manslaughter alongside seven scientists and technicians who are currently on trial for allegedly having carried out a superficial seismic risk analysis and giving a false sense of security to people in the central Italian town of L'Aquila only days before a deadly earthquake struck and killed 308 people.

A judge in the central Italian town of L'Aquila has handed down manslaughter sentences of 6 years to each of seven experts who gave advice ahead of the deadly earthquake that struck here in 2009.

► Speaking of policy and bias: Also in this week's Science, Edwin Cartlidge reported on the controversy surrounding an industry - sponsored report that holds «activities at a local oil field» blameless for two deadly earthquakes that struck Italy in 2012.

Plotting the frequency of deadly attacks in an insurgency against their magnitude creates the same pattern as for earthquakes.

The following year, the deadly magnitude - 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake in Japan was also larger than expected because it ruptured several fault segments previously believed to be independent.

An ocean engineer at the University of Rhode Island has found that a massive underwater landslide, combined with the 9.0 earthquake, was responsible for triggering the deadly tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

Nine days after a deadly earthquake devastated their community in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, students at Canoga Park High School returned to classes Jan. 26.

A diverse array of images, both inane and deadly serious, confronts the viewer; from the artist giving another man a bowl cut (using an actual bowl) and a wide - eyed cat to pictures of the rubble from Sichuan's devastating earthquake in 2008.

In fact, the moral of the Pacific Northwest earthquake - unpreparedness story is this: Even when a catastrophic hazard is inevitable, and when costly and deadly impacts could be mitigated with advance investments and policy shifts, we (actually, you) don't push to make the changes.

The 1976 Tangshan, China, earthquake, was so deadly in part because it struck at night.

As Japan awoke on Saturday to the devastation left by the one - two punch of an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a deadly tsunami, Japanese officials warned that damage to a coastal nuclear reactor may have resulted in a radiation leak after its cooling system was knocked offline on Friday.