Towns Found Flattened In Sumatra, Indonesia
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Airborne military patrols scoured inaccessible sections of Sumatra island Thursday. The district is about 60 miles from the epicenter of Sunday's undersea earthquake, which generated a massive tsunami that killed at least 121,000 people.
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Earthquakes measuring 8.0 and 7.9 on Richter scale shake area around Sumatra island.
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Signs grew on Thursday that towns and villages on the battered shores of the Indian Ocean were beginning to recover from the tsunami which all but swept them off the map.
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A powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people, flattening buildings and sparking panic in the streets of Malaysia and Singapore.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Dead bodies littered the  streets of Indonesia's Aceh province where it was feared on  Tuesday more than 25,000 people may have been killed from  Sunday's quake and tsunami.
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Soldiers who reached an isolated Pacific Ocean village in Aurora province reported finding about about 100 dead. In the worst-hit town of Real, in nearby Quezon province, TV images showed bodies buried under
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Desperate survivors  huddle in clearings without food or shelter above the water  line all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float as far as 20 miles out to sea.
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PADANG, Indonesia  - Indonesia's Sumatra island was pounded by aftershocks on Thursday after the world's most powerful earthquake so far this year killed at least six people and buried many more under buildings.
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MEULABOH, Indonesia - Three quarters of the western coastline on Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island is destroyed, and some towns were totally wiped out by this week&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis, a military official who visited the region said today.
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The 8.9-magnitude quake was centered off Sumatra, Indonesia. The death toll, now put at 7,000, was expected to rise dramatically.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- This is a tale of two cities: the old city that was struck down and the new one that is rising in its place as fast as the tent stakes can be hammered into the ground.
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Desperate relatives searched rubble for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake flattened nearly all the buildings in this rice-farming town while residents slept, killing more than 3,500 people on Indonesia&#039;s densely populated Java island.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors huddle in  clearings without food or shelter all along the tsunami-ravaged  coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, and corpses float miles out  to sea.
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Moderate quake jolts seas west of Indonesia    HONG KONG, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A moderate earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck the seas west of Sumatra Island, Indonesia, early Monday morning, according to a bulletin released by Hong Kong Observatory on Monday morning.
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This is an aerial view of the town of Meulaboh in Aceh province which was flattened by tidal waves on Sunday, photographed on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The first images yesterday of the seabed battered by the earthquake that triggered Asia's catastrophic tsunami revealed huge ruptures spanning several miles.
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They struggled to bury the dead and desperate residents looted shops on Indonesiaâs Sumatra Island today, where the earthquake and tsunamis killed up to 25,000 people, according to government estimates.