Mustafa Sarigul, the mayor of a posh borough in Istanbul, offered free housing and education to 1, 000 children left homeless by the quake.

伊斯坦布尔某个豪华城镇的镇长Mustafa Sarigul，为地震中无家可归的1,000名儿童提供了免费的住宿和教育。

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The expected volatility of the Japanese stockmarket increased by 224% in the days following the quake, according to the VXJ index (see chart 1), before falling back somewhat.

根据VXJ指数，在地震过后，日本股市在稍有平复之前其预期波动增加了224%。

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The figure is less than 1% of the numbers killed by Haiti’s quake or by the Asian tsunami (over 220, 000 in each case, most of them as disaster struck).

这个数字还不到海地地震或亚洲海啸造成的死亡人数的1%（这两次灾难的死亡人数都超过22万，大多数都是因灾难来袭丧生的）。

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At least 1.4 million households had gone without water since the quake struck and some 1.9 million households were without electricity.

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The Japanese media have drawn attention to a quake of magnitude 6.6 on the far side of the country, between Nagano and Niigata prefectures, and to a quake of magnitude 6.1 in Shizuoka prefecture, both within days of the main quake.

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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.

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