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- <text id=89TT0360>
- <title>
- Feb. 06, 1989: World Notes:Disasters
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 06, 1989 Armed America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 49
- World Notes
- DISASTERS
- Entombed In Mud
- </hdr><body>
- <p> As if the political tremors of perestroika were not trouble
- enough for Mikhail Gorbachev, nature's rumblings are proving
- even more serious. For the second time in two months, a deadly
- earthquake hit the Soviet Union. As reconstruction efforts were
- getting under way in Armenia, where a massive tremor killed
- some 25,000 people, a second earthquake struck, this time 1,200
- miles to the east in the Soviet republic of Tadzhikistan.
- </p>
- <p> The vibration triggered torrential mudslides, which swept
- over fertile farmland, burying hundreds of people and thousands
- of farm animals. Some locals were milking their cows when they
- heard the roar of the quake just after 5 a.m., and were able to
- escape the approaching mudslides. The small village of Sharora
- was not so lucky. The town was razed by a wall of mud up to 45
- ft. high. With no hope of finding survivors, local officials
- decided to leave the village entombed. The estimated death
- toll of the Tadzhikistan quake: 274.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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