Many houses collapsed because of the earthquake.

许多房屋因地震而倒塌。

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Landslides levelled an area about 5km long and 500 metres wide, officials said, and more than 300 houses collapsed.

泥石流将长5000米，宽500米的一片区域夷为平地，300多间房屋被毁。

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The whole area, which was more or less empty, was the old Jewish quarter of Skopje, many of whose remaining houses collapsed in a devastating earthquake in 1963.

这里曾是斯科普里犹太人聚居地，1963年那场毁灭性大地震将仅存下来的犹太人故居也震垮了。

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"Many bodies along the streets, a lot of injured people, just lying around, houses are destroyed and very new and large buildings totally collapsed,"

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Houses collapsed and roads buckled when the quake hit, with much of the intensity concentrated in Lushan, a county just southwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu.

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Rusted wheels stand silent, gap-toothed wooden houses are half-collapsed: the rotten shards of a thousand dreams of riches.

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Photographs he showed from Sandy's destruction looked very much like those after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005: houses washed from their slabs or collapsed into their foundations, and critical equipment such as generators or switches flooded on ground floors or in basements.

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