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Schools closed for safety after Tibet quake (Reuters) Reuters - China closed schools in Tibet's capital for safety reasons on Tuesday a day after a huge earthquake struck to the west and months after hundreds of classrooms were flattened in a devastating quake in Sichuan.




9 killed when 2 strong quakes hit Tibet (AP)

In this photo distributed by the official Xinhua news agency, a woman with her child walks past the collapsed building in Gedar Village of Yangbajain Township, Damxung County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, on Monday October 6, 2008. At least 30 people were killed in the earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale that jolted Damxung County in Lhasa at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Xinhua said, quoting the local government. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Purbu Zhaxi)AP - Two earthquakes jolted the capital of Tibet and surrounding areas, killing at least nine people and collapsing hundreds of houses, China's state news agency said Tuesday. Rescuers rushed in to try to save people buried in the rubble.





Quake kills 74 in Kyrgyz mountain village (AFP)

A Kyrgyz man stands near a destroyed house at the site of a major earthquake in Nura. Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them children.(AFP/Pool/Slutsky-Romanova)AFP - Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them children.





Nine dead as strong quake hits Tibet: state media (AFP)

A seismograph reading. At least nine people were killed in a strong earthquake which struck the Himalayan region of Tibet, Chinese state media said early Tuesday, quoting the rescue headquarters at the epicentre.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AFP - At least nine people were killed in a strong earthquake which struck the Himalayan region of Tibet, Chinese state media said early Tuesday, quoting the rescue headquarters at the epicentre.





Central Asia quake kills at least 72 (Reuters)

A man stands next to a destroyed house, after an earthquake, in the village of Nura on Kyrgyzstan's border with China October 6, 2008. (Maksim Slutsky/Reuters)Reuters - A powerful earthquake killed at least 72 people in Kyrgyzstan and leveled a village in the remote mountains of the Central Asian state, the health ministry said on Monday.





Earthquake kills at least 72 in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

Kyrgyz men look at a buckled road at the site of a major earthquake in Nura. Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them children.(AFP/Pool/Slutsky-Romanova)AP - A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 72 people, emergency officials said Monday.





Strong Tibet quake kills at least 30: report (Reuters)

At least 30 people were killed in a 6.6-magnitude earthquake which was centered near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, according to Xinhua, which cited the local government. (Graphics/Reuters)Reuters - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake killed at least 30 people in Tibet on Monday with a number of people buried in debris, Xinhua news agency said.





Kyrgyzstan quake kills about 70 - ministry (Reuters) Reuters - A weekend earthquake killed up to 70 people in Kyrgyzstan and levelled a village in the south of the Central Asian nation, the emergencies ministry said on Monday.


60 killed in Kyrgyzstan earthquake: minister (AFP)

File picture shows a checkpoint on the Kyrgyzstan-China border. A strong earthquake hit Kyrgyzstan, killing 65 people mainly in a remote village near the border with China that rescuers were racing to reach, officials said Monday.(AFP/File)AFP - Sixty people were killed when a strong earthquake hit Kyrgyzstan close to the country's border with China, the top emergency official in the former Soviet republic said Monday.





Strong quake hits Afghanistan (AFP)

A seismograph reading. A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit central Afghanistan Monday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AFP - A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit central Afghanistan Monday, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.





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