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-- Residents in the Gujarat State of western India spent the night outside Friday, too fearful to go back into their damaged homes after India's most powerful earthquake in half a century. The 7.9 magnitude earthquake killed as many as 2,000, injured at least 2,000, and left 4,000 missing. Most of the missing are thought to be buried under rubble, and rescue workers dug frantically with bulldozers, shovels, sticks -- even bare hands -- trying to find them. "The earthquake is a calamity of national magnitude," said Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who planned a trip to the area to survey damage. "We have decided to meet the emergency on a war footing," he said. "This is the time for people to rally around." The temblor shook high-rise towers 600 miles away in the capital, New Delhi. The quake could be felt as far as 1,200 miles away in Calcutta and coastal Bangladesh. The quake struck at 8:46 a.m. as many cities were beginning celebrations for India's 51st Republic Day, which commemorates the adoption of the country's constitution. In Ahmadabad, Gujarat's commercial capital and a sprawling city of 4.5 million, helmeted rescue workers used iron r
In 1819, a quake hit the same area killing between 1,500 and 2,000 people, officials at the U. Offers of aid, assistanceOffers of help poured in from other countries, including India's longtime enemy, Pakistan. Desperate rescue workers climbed atop mountains of debris and screamed into the crevices Saturday, hoping for some sign of life from thousands trapped by the magnitude-7. The neighboring country also was affected by the quake when a building in Hyderabad collapsed, killing at least four people. Fernandes said 90 percent of the buildings in the center of Bhuj had been damaged or destroyed, with a hospital and several schools flattened. They would depart, together with four dogs, as soon as Taiwan gets permission from India, officials said. Much of the damage was in Ahmedabad, a metropolitan area of 7. Rescue workers reported that more than 50 high-rise buildings had collapsed and many others had sustained heavy damage. 3 magnitude killed about 2,500 people. It was the world's second major quake of the year. Most had no water, food or medicine. 9 and said aftershocks could be expected for days or even weeks.
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