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...African continent is generally pushing north and trying to slip under the Eurasian plate. That movement, under way for millions of years, created the Alps and has helped to stoke such volcanoes as Sicily's Mount Etna. The devastating 7.2 quake that leveled the Algerian city of El Asnam nearly two months ago, killing more than 2,500, occurred almost precisely at one of the points where the African and Eurasian plates are believed to be thrusting against each other. But the Italian peninsula is also being wrenched by other forces within this broad pressure pattern. It is being...
...Asnam buries its dead
Abdelkader Mayouf, 24, a medical technician in the Algerian town of El Asnam, recalled his escape as he gazed upon the ruins of the modern, four-story hospital where he had worked. Mayouf had been luckier than the 300 patients who were trapped in their beds when the earthquake struck...
Rescue teams continued to search for other possible survivors in the tangled debris of El Asnam last week, but with dwindling chances of finding life. Instead, with increasing frequency, they found more bodies. The killer quake, which created an initial shock of 7.5 on the Richter scale and a rapid succession of 20 other tremors, left fully 80% of the town destroyed. The initial estimate of 25,000 deaths was later reduced by more than half. Still, with the toll already at 6,000, the El Asnam quake was far worse than the previous one that had destroyed the city...
Many bodies of victims were wrapped in white sheets for burial in hillside cemeteries; others were hastily placed in communal graves. The 80,000 homeless were sheltered in makeshift camps, 30 to a tent, at locations on the outskirts of El Asnam. The quake also opened up 12-ft.-wide fissures in the countryside as much as 30 miles away, destroying scores of villages and leaving an estimated 325,000 rural inhabitants destitute...