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The accident is the deadliest non-terrorist structural collapse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013
- April 24 – An eight-story commercial building collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, leaving 1,129 dead[27] and 2,500 injured.[28][29][30] The accident is the deadliest non-terrorist structural collapse in modern times[31] modern times[31] and the third-worst industrial disaster in history.[31][not in citation given]and the third-worst industrial disaster in history.[31][not in citation given]
worst ever recorded https://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&csid=ac8988af5606c126&redirect=true
As the scale of devastation became clear Sunday from one of the worst storms ever recorded, officials said emergency crews could find more bodies when they reach parts of the archipelago cut off by flooding and landslides.
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This would make it the fourth most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded and possibly the strongestto have ever hit land. By comparison, St Jude, the storm that hit in southern England last month, had winds gusting to 99mph. As Filipino communities ...
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Is it the biggest ever? This we cannot say because recorded history is limited to humans' ability to measure and verify wind speed and pressure.
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By AUSTIN RAMZY. Published: November 22, 2013. CEBU, Philippines - The official death toll for Typhoon Haiyan has exceeded 5,200, confirming that the devastating storm was one of the Philippines's deadliest ever recorded.
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As terrible as the Haiyan typhoon has been for the Philippines, it is nowhere close to being the “worststorm ever,” as some media outlets have alleged. Current stories on Haiyan are describing it as thestrongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in ...
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(CNN) -- With 25 million people in its path, Super Typhoon Haiyan -- one of the strongest storms recorded on the planet -- smashed into the Philippines on Friday morning.
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Some of the worst-hit areas were still recovering from a deadly 2011 storm and a 7.2-magnitude earthquake last month, and "thousands of people are likely to be left without food, shelter and water," said Bernd Schell, the Philippines representative for ...
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The Happy Mondays 'Yes Please!' (1992): Label Factory exiled the band to Barbados so that Shaun Ryder couldn't take heroin.
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That death toll in Tacloban was the first significant casualty report in a day when authorities began surveying the devastation of a typhoon that has been described as perhaps the strongest storm ever to make landfall in recordedhistory. Capt. John ...
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He feared the worst. Eventually, Burle found Gabeira floating facedown and heading for rocks. He quickly got her on a rescue sled and brought her to shore, where she had to be resuscitated, according to reports.
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No hurricane in the Atlantic has ever been this strong. • It's possible Haiyan could become thestrongest storm ever recorded to make landfall, anywhere on Earth. • The storm is over 300 miles wide: The width is about equal to the distance between ...
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However, if the feared death toll of above 10,000 is correct, Haiyan would be the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded in the Philippines. The previous deadliest disaster in the Philippines occurred in 1976, when a tsunami triggered by a magnitude ...
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Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services, said this winter could now parallel hthe worst winters ever recorded. He said: “Looking back at historical data there is certainly an argument that we may well parallel with severe winters of ...
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Super Typhoon Haiyan flattened dozens of towns across the central Philippines on November 8, bringing some of thestrongest winds ever recorded and generating tsunami-like storm surges. Haiyan now stands as one of the deadliestnatural disasters ever ...
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The latest poll on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's job performance makes one wonder what the crack-smoking, foul-mouthed, short-fused leader of Canada's biggest city would have to do to turn off voters. Ford's popularity has hardly been dented by his ...
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Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones—all released arguably theirworst-ever music in the 80s.
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Super Typhoon Haiyan flattened dozens of towns across the central Philippines on November 8, bringing some of thestrongest winds ever recorded and generating tsunami-like storm surges. Balido said the death toll rose sharply on Friday, increasing from ...
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MANILA, Philippines - One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines on Friday, killing at least four people, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and knocking out power and communications in several provinces.
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