Sentences with phrase «earthquake hit the town»

When an earthquake hits a town, the destruction is caused by seismic waves moving through the Earth.

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L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

Suddenly his life is turned upside down when an earthquake hits his sleepy town of Valley City, North Dakota.

Heritage sites damaged in fatal Italian earthquake A 6.2 - magnitude earthquake has hit central Italy, killing at least 73 people and destroying buildings in several historic towns.

I encourage you to read «Tsunami - hit towns forgot warnings from ancestors,» a haunting and fascinating Associated Press story by Jay Alabaster describing centuries - old stone tablets warning of coastal tsunami risk that dot the Japanese coast ravaged by the great earthquake and resulting waves on March 11th.

And although their use as a disaster response has been questioned, they've proven to be a useful resource when a tsunami hit Chile last year and a group of students from a local university was able to re-build a local school in a devastated town in only four weeks.A fishing town of 3,000 people, Tubul is located about 500 kilometers (300 miles) south - west from Santiago, and was one of the areas most affected by the earthquake and tsunami.