Nine years ago, 30, 000 people died in an earthquake in Bam in southeastern Kerman province.
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In 1970, tens of thousands of people died in an earthquake in Peru.
In 1531, between 20, 000 and 30, 000 people died in an earthquake in Lisbon.
Berkley said that, according to scientists, the proposed Nevada waste dump is located in an earthquake and volcanic eruption zone.
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He said since Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant was badly damaged in an earthquake and tsunami in March, countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Italy were reducing their commitment to nuclear energy.
Prof Redmond gave an example of treatment being administered in Haiti following an earthquake there in 2010.
In 2003, an earthquake in the city of Bam left more than 25, 000 people dead.
Among them: ethnic clashes in West Java, a riot following an earthquake in central Sumatra, and an anti-pollution protest that led to riots in Pasaruan, East Java.
Toyoda wept openly during one emotional show of support from Toyota dealers in the U.S. Then in 2011, an earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan wiped out auto suppliers and Toyota's vehicle production plunged.
In 1997, an earthquake killed 10 people in the Umbria region, left tens of thousands homeless and seriously damaged monuments and artwork, including the town of Assisi's famed Basilica of St.
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You know that the Web isn't quite done with reinventing humanity when, in the space of a week, a cyclone kills 100, 000 people in Myanmar and an earthquake kills 70, 000 in China.
More than 1, 500 people were killed again in 1997 when an earthquake struck the Ghaen region, while in Golbaf, a strong quake which had caused 1, 500 deaths in 1981 caused just five in 1991.
In 1976, in Turkey, an earthquake struck which destroyed the town of Muradiye and left 5, 291 people dead.
In 2007, an earthquake heavily damaged Tepco's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant.
Mr. Ran said Beidou is already being used by more than 100, 000 clients in China and has been used to help track government vehicles in the southern province of Guangdong, and to assist disaster-relief work after an earthquake in the western province of Sichuan in 2008.
After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Congress overruled FEMA's refusal to provide aid to damaged churches, they said, and after an earthquake in Seattle in 2002, the Justice Department stepped in and directed FEMA to assist religious organizations damaged by the quake.
China Youth Daily says the country must learn from Japan's earthquake-resistant building designs after almost all the buildings in Baoxing county in Ya'an, including newer earthquake-proof houses, were badly damaged in the quake.
Thomas Jordan, an Earth scientist at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, who chaired an international review of earthquake forecasting in Italy in the wake of L'Aquila's quake, says that these calculations must be put into context.
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But GM retook the sales crown in 2011 when Toyota's factories were slowed by an earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
In the case of an earthquake, for instance, the agents bid among themselves to allocate ambulances.
If the court had ruled against future rescues it would have caused an earthquake in the eurozone.
Mr Martelly took office last year promising a fresh start for Haiti, devastated by an earthquake in 2010.
An earthquake in April that struck a main producing area in Qinghai province is part of the reason, traders say.
At the Fukushima Daiichi plant, cooling systems failed in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami when electrical power was lost.
To get the population ready, we have regular risk exercises when people must evacuate the building in a case of an earthquake.
Three weeks ago, as you know, there was an earthquake in Haiti.
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He also attacked Britain's "celebrity society", stressing that "David and Victoria Beckham's comings and goings attract more attention than an earthquake in Algeria".
South Korean, U.S. and Japanese seismic monitoring agencies said they detected an earthquake in North Korea with a magnitude between 4.9 and 5.2.
Earlier this month, an earthquake in West Java killed 57 people.
Last year, for example, an earthquake in Japan forced the closure of several nuclear plants, leading to a surge in demand for gas for power generation.
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