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"As the Indonesian governement raises the danger alert to its highest level, more than 20,000 residents living near the Mount Sinabung volcano are evacuated to temporary emergency centres"

"It is three and a half years after Haiti's devastating earthquake - and the country is still recovering. Although the number of people living in camps in the centre of the capital city is getting smaller, on the outskirts of Port au Prince a huge slum city is springing up."

"A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck suburban Los Angeles on Friday, rattling a wide swathe of southern California. Geologists say the tremor was shallow, at a depth of only 1.2 miles. There were no reports of injury or substantial structural damage from the quake, which was centred outside the city of La Habra, about 20 miles east of downtown LA"

"It has been four years since the Italian medieval city of L'Aquila was hit by an earthquake. More than 300 people died and thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed. Of the 70,000 left homeless, around 20,000 have been unable to return to their original homes."