The last major temblor, a magnitude 7.6 also centered in Nantou County, struck in 1999.

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That temblor killed more than 5, 000 people and triggered fears of an eruption from a nearby volcano.

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The temblor did generate a tsunami just under one foot high, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

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Relief teams flew in helicopters, dynamited through landslides to reach some of the most isolated communities in Sichuan province, where the temblor killed 186.

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The quake is the deadliest to strike Italy in decades, and the first major temblor to strike the country in almost seven years.

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The size of the temblor, which struck at 3:58 a.m.

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Whether you run a neighborhood bar or a multinational corporation, now would be great time to think through how your company can put its best foot forward when the Great Blizzard, Wildfire or Temblor of 2013 strikes.

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As people across China's Sichuan province continue to rebuild their lives one year after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake leveled some towns and cities, the region's famed giant pandas are still struggling due to the devastation wreaked by the deadly temblor.

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Mourners placed yellow and white silk flowers at a quake memorial, sang the national anthem and a white jade carving of a clock that stopped at 2:28, when the temblor hit, with the date underneath, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

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