The earthquake reduced much of L’Aquila’s medieval centre to rubble and flattened surrounding villages, leaving the region, north-east of Rome, looking like a war zone.

地震将拉奎拉的中世纪中心震成一片碎石，还夷平了周边村落，使罗马东北的拉奎拉地区看起来更像战区。

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The quake in the mountainous region had flattened homes -- many of which were made with wood and earth -- and other buildings in Jiegu and elsewhere in Yushu prefecture, a Tibetan region of Qinghai.

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