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earthquakes_worst.sPubDate = "3/28/2005 10:47:10 PM GMT";
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earthquakes_worst.appHeader = "fact file|Strongest earthquakes";
earthquakes_worst.appDeck = "The strongest quakes of 20th and 21st centuries";
earthquakes_worst.appFooter = "Source: Reuters/U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Web site -http:/earthquake.usgs.gov/";
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earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","May 22, 1960 -- Chile","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "An earthquake measuring 9.5 struck Santiago and Concepcion, triggering tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Some 5,000 people were killed and 2 million made homeless.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","March 28, 1964 -- Alaska ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "An earthquake and ensuing tsunami claimed 125 lives and caused about $311 million in property loss. The quake, measuring 9.2, was felt over a large area of Alaska and in parts of western Yukon Territory and British Columbia, Canada.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","March 9, 1957 -- Alaska","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "An earthquake measuring 9.1 hit the Andreanof Islands. On Umnak Island, Mount Vsevidof erupted after being dormant for 200 years, generating a 15-meter high tsunami that continued to Hawaii.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","Dec. 26, 2004 -- Indonesia","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "A quake measuring 9.0 struck the coast of Aceh province on the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra and triggered a tsunami that killed tens of thousands of people in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, India and elsewhere in Asia.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","Nov. 4, 1952 -- Russia ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "An earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 generated a tsunami that struck the Hawaiian islands. No lives were lost.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","Jan. 31, 1906 -- Ecuador","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck near the coast of Ecuador and Colombia, generating a strong tsunami that killed up to 1,000. It was felt all along the coast of Central America and as far north as San Francisco and west to Japan.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","March 28, 2005 -- Indonesia","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "An earthquake measuring 8.7, possibly an aftershock to the 9.0 December 2004 quake that spawned a deadly Indian Ocean tsunami, struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","Feb. 4, 1965 -- Alaska ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "Measuring 8.7, the quake generated a tsunami reported to be about 10.7 meters high on Shemya Island.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 15, 1950 -- Tibet/India","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "Two thousand homes, temples and mosques were destroyed in a quake measuring 8.6. Hardest hit was the Brahmaputra Basin in northeast India. At least 1,500 people were killed.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","Feb. 3, 1923 -- Russia ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "Kamchatka was struck by a quake with a magnitude of 8.5.";

earthquakes_worst[i++] = new Array("","Feb. 1, 1938 -- Indonesia ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
earthquakes_worst[i-1].body = "An 8.5 magnitude earthquake in the Banda Sea generated tsunamis causing great damage on Banda and Kai, volcanic islands in eastern Indonesia.";

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