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| 2009 Oct.3 |
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Hopes dim for quake-hit Sumatra  Aid workers are increasingly unlikely to find survivors under the rubble, as they push into devastated remote areas
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| 2009 Oct.3 |
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Up to 4,000 buried in quake rubble Map of Padang Indonesia Local disaster management officials put the death toll at 540. People used hammers, chisels and bare hands to dig through debris for survivors
| Some villages were completely destroyed in landslides, with access roads torn apart preventing medical teams reaching the injured
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| 2009 Oct.2 |
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Entire villages buried by quakes Map of Padang Indonesia 90 percent of the residents -- as many as a few hundred people -- were buried, just one piece of the devastation from two large earthquakes
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| 2009 Oct.1 |
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Quake deaths pass 1,000  Map of Padang Indonesia Corpses lay stacked outside hospitals, as night fell casting nearly the entire city in darkness hours after the region's second strong earthquake
| Rescuers free man trapped in 'pancaked' Indonesian hotel. Rescuers are working into the night to find survivors in the rubble of hundreds of collapsed buildings
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| 2009 Sep.30 |
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Indonesia quake death kills thousands Map of Padang Indonesia Thousands more trapped by collapsed buildings and houses. The quake caused widespread power and phone outages
| Buildings, including at least two hospitals, were brought down by the 7.6 magnitude quake
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