A look at the world's deadliest earthquakes in the past 25 years
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This week's earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, killing more than 20,000 people, is among the world’s deadliest in recent decades.
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With hope of finding survivors fading, stretched rescue teams in Turkey and Syria searched Wednesday for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by the world's deadliest earthquake in more than a decade.
Tens of thousands of people who lost their homes in a catastrophic earthquake huddled around campfires in the bitter cold and clamored for food and water Thursday, three days after the temblor hit Turkey and Syria and killed more than 20,000.
Similarities between the calamity unfolding this week in Turkey and Syria and the triple disaster that hit northern Japan in 2011 may offer a glimpse of what the region could face in the years ahead.
The baby girl born under the rubble of her family's home in northern Syria in the aftermath of last week’s devastating earthquake is in good health and being breast-fed by the wife of the director of the hospital where she is being cared for, her doctor says
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of El Salvador shook much of Central America from Nicaragua to Guatemala on Tuesday, sending residents in some cities streaming into the streets.
The Moroccan Interior Ministry says the death toll in a massive earthquake rises to 820, with at least 672 injured.
Meteorologist Joe Martucci from our weather team spoke with Jeff Webber, Associate Professor of Geology at Stockton University in New Jersey about the April 5 Earthquake. NJ experiences earthquake, but not usually this strong.

