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Standing Outside of Destroyed Home

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Two school teachers stand outside a neighbor's destroyed adobe home in Cauquenes, Chile following the M 8.8 earthquake on Feb. 27, 2010. Reconstruction in this ancient city will be based on reinforced concrete rather than highly vulnerable adobe.

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Public Domain.

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