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On Dec. 12, 1988, three trains collided in London, killing 35 people, Britain's worst railway accident in 21 years.

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On the freezing evening of December 16, 1920, in the rural highlands of northwest China, thousands of families were settling in for the night. In the loess caves and mud-brick homes of Gansu Province, ...

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A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.

A nagnitude-5.7 quake hits 67 miles northeast of Kuji, Japan, rattling coastal towns just days after a tsunami warning.

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