Yet earthquakes cannot be predicted accurately enough to know when people should be evacuated.
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About 100 residents had to be evacuated after the Water of Ruchill burst its banks.
Some properties were left under 3ft (1m) of mud and about 100 households had to be evacuated.
Dorset Fire and Rescue Service said no-one had been injured and no chalets had to be evacuated.
The fire consumed several structures in the landfill area, but no one had to be evacuated, he said.
Four days after Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people are still stranded in the city waiting to be evacuated.
Twenty nearby homes had to be evacuated, roads were closed and thousands of fish spilled into neighbouring fields.
The racecourse had to be evacuated, causing chaos on one of the biggest dates in the sporting calendar.
Residents in Croston and Darwen, Lancashire, had to be evacuated from their homes when nearby rivers burst their banks.
On Saturday, as tensions grew, someone called in a bomb threat, and the entire store had to be evacuated.
Earlier in the month more than 100 homes had to be evacuated in Cornwall after floods and gale-force winds.
When the Iraq-Iran War broke out in 1980, some 3, 000 workers on the project had to be evacuated overnight.
Residents have returned home after a major fire at a flooring factory forced them to be evacuated on Wednesday morning.
If eco-guards and staff have to be evacuated from certain areas for their own safety, equipment, infrastructure and sometimes animals suffer.
Both Bellevue Hospital and New York Langone Medical Center had to be evacuated because all their electrical systems were in the basement.
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Officials worry heavier passengers squished into one seat may pose a safety hazard when a plane must be evacuated during an emergency.
Some spots in Massachusetts had to be evacuated because of coastal flooding, including Salisbury Beach, where around 40 people were ordered out.
Rister's injuries from the assault by campus security required him to be evacuated by ambulance in a neck brace to the hospital.
In fact, once the fight was over, Specialist Lemon refused to be evacuated until others had been taken to a field hospital.
The employees from the first had to be evacuated, although about 100 have stayed behind to look after what is left as best they can.
However, as of Monday afternoon, 2, 600 Americans had requested to be evacuated.
Williams said the hospital is trying to care for 10 critically ill patients, four of whom need dialysis and need to be evacuated.
On Tuesday all staff and patients at Crawley Hospital had to be evacuated after the fire in a store room on the Comet ward.
In the past month, several hundred people had to be evacuated, prompting the construction of a channel to divert the flow from a major river.
It's what happens when the wounded can't be evacuated in time.
Passengers on five trains near Radlett station, had to be evacuated.
Mr Ellicock, who now runs an education charity, was wounded in his arms, fingers and legs and had to be evacuated from the scene by helicopter.
Louis River waterfront in an area known as Fond du Lac, where some 200 homes were devastated by the flooding and 80 had to be evacuated.
Austin was transported to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital near Tuzla, and reportedly will be evacuated either to Germany or to the United States for further treatment.
Despite that, Frankfurt's equivalent to the World Trade Center, the Messeturm building, was open only to be evacuated early on Wednesday after police received a bomb alert.
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