The _____ struck coastal areas just after midnight and caused widespread ______.
earthquake; devastation
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Much of the i_____ was damaged or destroyed, and thousands of people started to f____ the worst-affected areas.
infrastructure; flee
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As the number of injuries continued to r____, it became clear that a humanitarian c___ was starting to unfold.
rise; crisis
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There were food s_____ and a l_____ amount of clean drinking water.
shortages; limited
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The government a_____ to the international community for a____.
appealed; aid
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The roads were b_____, so they had to use helicopters to drop s____ to people.
blocked; supplies
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They l_____ a relief effort and started to e_____ people from the disaster zones.
launched; evacuate
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They finally managed to clear the d____ and started the huge t____ of rebuilding.
debris; task
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Events ____ed in a way that no one could have predicted.
unfolded
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Europe's 2003 heat wave claimed more than 30,000 lives, making it the continent's largest n___ d____ in 50 years.
natural disaster
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The Vatican has agreed to donate $80,000 in humanitarian/emergency a____ to countries affected by the war.
aid
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After the tornado, d____ from damaged trees and houses littered the town.
debris
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The city’s hospitals had all been d_____, roads in and out of the city remained blocked and the seaport, which supplies would normally have been delivered to, was also unusable.
