The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says it has delivered tools and seeds to thousands of families in the earthquake area.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

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The school was destroyed in the earthquake but all one hundred fifty students survived.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

You need metal." FAO says it has delivered tools and seeds to 68,000 families in the earthquake zone so far.

VOA: standard.2010.04.02

The school's director, Raphael St.Hilare, says students outside Port-au-Prince have suffered a trauma, even if their communities escaped damage in the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Makeshift hospitals continue to struggle to treat the huge number of people injured in the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Gardere says it will take at least four years to recoup his losses, but he is quick to point out that Barbancourt lost more than just business in the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Some scientists say the earthquake that caused the great tsunami of two thousand four measured nine points in intensity.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Kathleen Sebelius says the United States had medical teams in Haiti well before the earthquake and will have them there well after.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

In two thousand five, almost one thousand people were killed in an earthquake near the island of Nias.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

The Obama administration now faces the earthquake relief effort in Haiti and the threat of terrorism at home.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

In the United States, many people are also giving their time and energy to collect money and goods for the earthquake victims.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

"You are feeling hopeless. If I was in Haiti when that happened, when the earthquake happened, I could go and help somebody that's injured.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

A tsunami formed near the place where the earthquake began and traveled outward in all directions.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

The earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in March continue to have far-reaching effects.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

Also among the top news stories was the huge earthquake that struck China in May.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

One event was to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

The January twelfth earthquake in Haiti killed or injured hundreds of thousands of people.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The country has one of the best earthquake early warning systems in the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

He reported the eruption of the Osorno volcano and experienced an earthquake in Chile.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Haiti was considered to be in crisis long before the earthquake in January.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

In nineteen sixty, the Great Chilean Earthquake caused waves that took many lives.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

This forces apart pieces of the Earth's surface in a violent earthquake.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

The song was produced to raise money for earthquake victims in Haiti.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

More than fifty countries and organizations have promised to give more than five billion dollars to help Haiti rebuild after an earthquake destroyed much of the country in January.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

The earthquake created a tsunami that killed people in eleven countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

The earthquake displaces a large amount of water in the ocean.

VOA: special.2011.06.07

Before beginning the show, director Dadi Pudumjee asked the audience to observe a minute of silence to honor the actors and puppet experts in Japan who may have suffered after last week's major earthquake.

VOA: special.2011.03.16