Sooner or later, citizens of Padang feared they would be next. Sitting on the same earthquake faultline that triggered the deadly 2004 Asian tsunami, the Indonesian city of 900,000 on the island of Sumatra is one of the world’s most vulnerable to seismic activity.
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Another quake hits near Samoan islands
Another earthquake struck near the Samoan islands, an area already devastated by earthquake and tsunami damage.
Church collapse in Nepal kills at least 23
At least 23 people died when part of a church collapsed in eastern Nepal, police said Wednesday.