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There was a large amount of damage to buildings, mainly ones made of brick; the earthquake occurred at a time before an earthquake building code was introduced. [19] The Napier Daily Telegraph newspaper office was destroyed by the quake, [citation needed] and so was the Hawke's Bay Herald ' s printing facility in Hastings. [20]
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or ...
Before and after photos of the deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area have sent tens of thousands scrambling for safety and decimated neighborhoods.
Bushfire: Western Australian bushfires: 0 160 homes 1965 Bushfire: Chatsbury bushfires: 3 59 homes 1967 Bushfire: Tasmanian fires: 62 1,293 homes Now known as Black Tuesday, 7000 left homeless as over a hundred fires burned in southern Tasmania. [47] 1969 Bushfire: 1969 bushfires: 23 [48] 230 houses, 21 other buildings and more than 12,000 stock
A series of earthquakes and aftershocks striking the border region between southeast Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday is feared to have killed 20,000 people.. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake ...
Before-and-after videos filmed while driving through Tumbarumba, in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains, show the dramatic effect the summer’s bushfires had on the town.In this footage, posted ...
The first two columns are derived from the PDE monthly catalog and indicate deaths resulting from earthquake shaking only (i.e., from partial or total building collapse), and total fatalities resulting from earthquake shaking and secondary effects, such as tsunami, landslide, fire, liquefaction or other factors (e.g., heart failure).
At least 2,818 buildings have collapsed, including a 2,000-year-old castle and a mosque dating back to 1247