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Moroccan earthquake survivors shelter in a makeshift camp near their destroyed houses in the devastated village of Ighermane. Vehicles packed with supplies were inching up winding mountain roads to deliver desperately needed food and tents to survivors of the nation's strongest quake on record and deadliest in more than six decades. IMAGES
Hundreds of residents of Durres spend the night in tents erected near the city stadium after a violent earthquake that killed more than 20 people. IMAGES
People queue for food at a makeshift relief camp after an earthquake killed at least 113 people in China's northwestern Gansu province, and 18 more in neighbouring Qinghai. The shallow tremor on Monday night also damaged thousands of buildings. IMAGES
In Hualien, relief tents are set up to provide shelter to residents after the most powerful earthquake in 25 years hit Taiwan, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 1,000. Strict building regulations and widespread public disaster awareness appear to have staved off a major catastrophe for the earthquake-prone island, which lies near the junction of two tectonic plates. IMAGES
Emergency workers use heavy machinery in the eastern Taiwan city of Hualien after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the area on Wednesday morning. At least nine people died in the quake -- all in Hualien county -- and more than 1,000 were injured across the country. The earthquake is the strongest to hit Taiwan in 25 years. IMAGES