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She had seen her son, at least; most of the children still lay in the rubble of Xinjian elementary school.

It was nine days since his wife died, killed by falling rubble as they fled their house during China's earthquake.

AT the far end of the lake, they came to huge piles of rubble which had been washed up by the wATer.

It is often not clear which government authority is responsible for sorting through the rubble.

Eventually, they dug away the final pieces of rubble - and a woman was carefully lifted out and rushed on a stretcher to a nearby doctor.

As they clambered over the rubble, however, it was soon clear that hopes of any further survivors were fading fast.

Even as the Moutai distillery turns large swaths of the ancient town to rubble, it is rare to hear a disparaging word about the company.

The last time I saw that castle it was a pile of rubble; now the marquis himself would no doubt approve.

He said rocks were strewn all over the place, and theravine was "just full of collapsed walls and rubble and barbed wire" .

Although he had been trapped by an aftershock rather than the initial earthquake, the man is the longest survivor so far under the rubble.

Ever since the earthquake of December 2003, Bam in Southern Iran is nothing but rubble and ruin.

Struggling to his feet, Huajun looked across the valley to his house and saw only a mound of rubble.

The building itself is a process of life, from the beginning to the end when it becomes rubble, it has a lot in common with organic life.

Hilkiah, one of my chief priests was looking around the rubble and he found a scroll.

Even among the rubble it is possible to hear neighbours greet each other and visitors with polite humour.

So let me close by asking you to remember the little girl who was pulled from the rubble on Monday in Port-au-Prince.

A Chinese body had been found among the rubble of a building here destroyed by Haiti's massive earthquake, Chinese rescuers say on Saturday.

Her brother told us that she was the last of a family of three to be plucked from the rubble.

Our outlook at this time was that London, except for its strong modern buildings, would be gradually and soon reduced to a rubble-heap.

In another case, the head of a family whose house had burned down was going through the rubble to see if he could salvage anything.

Further down the road again and over a railway line even closer to the sea, fisherman Mervyn Jayasuriya stands in the rubble of his home.

Ramadan was standing in front of the rubble of a health clinic that he said had been demolished by a pre-dawn attack on Monday.

Crews worked late into the night trying to free six college students from beneath the rubble of their collapsed dormitory.

a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb).

In London, the top floors of a building under renovation collapsed, trapping a construction worker in the rubble.

Eight-burned the Summer Palace, so that this world's most splendid architectural transience into a scorched earth and rubble . . .

The engineer's most stressful months, he said, were in June and July, once enough rubble was cleared to let him work on the systems.

Emergency workers continued to search through the smoldering rubble and officials said the body count was likely to rise significantly.

As Mr. Fukuda spoke, rescue workers shouted that they had found a body in rubble a few hundred feet away.

Digging his fingernails into the rubble window seals, he inched his way toward the front.

A woman who lost her mother and her three-year-old son reacts after she confirmed their bodies under the rubble of her house in Miyako.

TRAPPED under a pile of rubble, you wait for rescue. Then, to add to your troubles, you see a small blob ooze through a nearby crack.

A trademark used for an excavatIng machIne with a large scoop In front for movIng and liftIng earth, rocks, and rubble.

Sometimes she would try to cheer her father by pointing to the pile of rubble next door, all that was left of their neighbors' bombed house.

Then he picked up a chunk of concrete from the rubble and rubbed it in his hands.

The official Xinhua news agency says the woman spent 195 hours under the rubble, but did not provide any other details.

NOT since Cologne was rebuilt half a century ago, out of the rubble of war, has a change in the urban landscape generated so much heat.

Official media report that on Monday, at least two women were pulled out of the rubble, alive.

Yesterday his house was a pile of rubble: collapsed walls and the occasional piece of furniture exposed to the sky.

Zaitsev found a bullet from a special heap of rubble of a location shoot.

As part of the search that has extended into a second month, many coastal towns are using heavy machinery to jar free mounds of rubble.

Level or flatten: The earthquake leveled entire towns, flattening the simple adobe, brick structures and leaving nothing but rubble.

One rescuer there was lowered deep into the rubble when tear gas fired at looters across the street forced him to pause efforts.

I took two small pieces of rubble, the rubble of two there, I do not know son, it is much more tight grasping, grasping for a long time.

On some streets, heavy equipment was beginning to clear away the rubble; others were still blocked.

All that was left by winter was a wide, bare lot, strewn with rubble and patrolled by magpies.

Fang said the rescue work was difficult and risky, as falling rubble and seeping water may indicate another collapse in the near future.

Many residents of spontaneous action, trying to search collapsed buildings for survivors under the rubble.

at least two victims pulled alive from the rubble and there may be others still trapped inside the World Trade Center's collapsed remains.

Schools had to be cleared of rubble and of displaced people; families had to scrape together money for uniforms and fees.

The quake leveled entire towns, flattening the simple adobe, brick structures and leaving nothing but rubble.

A small dresser of clothes survived, askew in the rubble of what used to be a bedroom.

Otherwise, you walk around with nothing to see but a bunch of rubble.

The machines have been sifting through the rubble from the school, crushing it to be moved out of the area.

While it is sometimes easy to find bodies after a major earthquake once the rubble is cleared, tsunamis can scatter bodies far and wide.

Fu Guanyu watches anxiously as an excavator pulls through the rubble in search of her son and his grandparents.

But instead of a school, he found a shapeless heap of rubble.

Emergency personnel and soldiers continued to dig the mud and rubble in the affected areas, search for missing people.

He said he just rubble.

Seven women fleeing ahead of her disappeared as the staircase collapsed. Then the roof fell in, pinning her and her colleague under rubble.

The landslide tore huge boulders from the steep sides of the valley around the town. Buildings were buried by the mud, sludge and rubble.

A woman dumps rubble into a crusher at a mine in India's Jharkhand state.

The elderly have had to hobble through the daily chaos of Port-au-Prince, forced into rubble piles by speeding convoys of aid workers.

Men desperate to keep their jobs make mistakes like trying to clear rubble before the blasting is finished.

But in the case of this father, the sight of rubble and ruin only made him spring into action.

OUT OF THE RUBBLE, A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS EMERGED. NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS DECIDED TO POOL THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ATOM FOR POSITIVE ENDS.

That rubble might have blocked doorways instead of the road, or even killed your attackers.

So far, rescue workers have located one person in the rubble, who appears to be healthy, a fire services official said.

Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger.

With her legs crushed under tonnes of rubble, rescuers had feared infection would set in and prove fatal.

The sound of a baby's cry amid the rubble seemed so impossible that soldiers searching a tsunami-smashed village dismissed it as a mistake.

The blast had smitten the large , tidy kitchen with all its bright sauce pans and crockery, into a heap of black dust and rubble .

Her first child was taken out from the rubble and was dead and lying in a body bag right in front of me.

The results suggest that the object's tail is rubble from a crash with another asteroid, not the sign of a wayward comet.

He shouted to children buried in a pile of rubble: "This is Grandpa Wen Jiabao. Children, you've got to hold on! "

I remember standing in the rubble of the World Trade Center three days later, surrounded by rescuers who had been working around the clock.

Dodging rubble and smoke, McQueen moved spectacularly, gliding between stopped vehicles and leapfrogging into the air over a pile of cars.

The main building of the Beichuan Middle School, a seven-story structure, had been reduced to a pile of rubble about 2 meters high.

Seventy survivors had been pulled from the rubble so far, the International Red Cross said on Sunday.

The 7. 9-magnitude quake reduced much of Tokyo to rubble, and as refugees tried to leave, firestorms swept through the city.

And then a sudden thought made me stop and turn around. Two minutes later, close to a rubble-strewn wasteland, I found the hostel.

Instead, little white markers cut out of polythene bags are still planted along the narrow rubble lane to the cemetery.

But she sat there, clinging to her husband for support because she knew she still had a living child under the rubble.

Days later, as curiosity seekers came with video cameras and as parents came to grieve, the four-story school was no more than rubble.

They had so much rubble to clear, he says, that they often keeled over in the heat under the weight of their protective gear.

Chieko Chiba walks through the rubble after going to see her destroyed home March 16, 2011 in Kesennuma, Miyagi province.

The death toll from the eruptions has now risen to about 120 and is expected to increase as rescuers pull bodies out of the ash and rubble.

Historians will be digging through the rubble of that economic and political experiment for years.

"People were covered in rubble, covered in several tons of concrete, " he said.

Dilan got help from the cement factory - a heavy earth-moving machine to help shift the rubble and create a space for tents.

Jones said a quake of this magnitude will instantly turn a brick building into a rubble.

n. A thin girl with caramel skin and a yellow silk blouse walks alone through a barren landscape of rubble.

PLA soldiers and policemen are trying to find people alive in the rubble.

"I can't take this, " said one soldier as he hurried away from a corpse and back to the rubble.

Three days later, in hospital, she found an injured girl from her daughter's class who escaped from the rubble of the school.

Using immense construction droids, the Republic was able to clear the rubble and erect new buildings on Coruscant's surface.

In Ercis, 'the number of people under rubble is unclear, ' he said, adding that 55 buildings had collapsed in that town.

The rubble had not collapsed farther into the hole.

Standing in the rubble, in the city of Delhi , India, he stood with other volunteers who had come to help the earthquake victims.

The explosion occurred in a busy area near the Rasoul mosque, police said, and a number of people were trapped under rubble.

An hour or so later, the excavator was at work on the rubble that was the six story building where Wang Wei's parents lived.

Two buildings near the police station collapsed in the blast and a number of people were buried under the rubble.

The piece of rubble or debris is reminiscent of a machine part and could be the remains of a UFO wing or a drive unit.

She thought she heard her cellphone ringing elsewhere in the rubble. It rang over and over for a while.

A woman stands in the rubble of her home the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan.

Rescue workers in central China are frantically searching for survivors in rubble like this.

Only a few yards away from the shoreline you'll notice a gradual slope of branch coral rubble .

The miners snaked through the basement rubble and prepared to strike a concrete beam with their hammers.

The last holdouts in a neighborhood will live amid the rubble, watching the surrounding homes being demolished.

Not that far to say the last good, and in the Wenchuan earthquake, when a girl dying under the rubble.

We stepped out of the thick woods onto a giant swath of rubble, a big elongated pile of rocks on the top of this ridge.

The Dominican team help send food and bottled water, and sent heavy machinery to help remove the rubble.

A man trapped in the rubble of a collapsed government building waits to be rescued.

I've walked with the victims of that war through the rubble of their cities.

Near the city's harbor, someone had placed a sign that said 'SOS' with an arrow pointing down a rubble-filled road.

Palestinian family walked through the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City.

While among the rubble, rescue workers search and rescue work difficult, a thunderstorm hit the city this paralysis.

Rubble from destroyed houses in Port-au-Prince, Haiti sit on the remains of mattresses on the side of the road.

They saw buildings reduced to rubble. Not one wall was left standing. No building was left intact. It was a heart-wrenching scene.

I wouldn't be one of those people standing amidst the rubble of my home shedding tears over lost material goods.

In Atlanta, agents are sifting through the rubble of an abortion clinic bombing, when suddenly. . . a secondary device explodes.

Small landslides constantly add to the steep rubble slopes along the lake's shore, and large boulders periodically drop into the lake.

Rescue workers continue to work tirelessly in an effort to find any possible survivors, which may be trapped in the rubble.

In a matter of minutes, an October earthquake measuring 7. 3 turned the city of Ashgabat into a pile of rubble.

A fierce explosion turned the building into a pile of rubble.

Officials say that the death toll in Padang will certainly rise, possibly into the thousands, as more bodies are found in the rubble.

Vehicles and rubble cover a road in Kesennuma Japan March 12 after being washed away by an earthquake-triggered tsunami.

The sand or rubble cushion thick, width and expansion limit were analysed and a determination method was given in the paper.

As I sifted through the rubble of my marriage skirmish, I had a thought.

An assault fought amongst the rubble-strewn and treacherous environs of a ruined city is the most gruelling kind of battle.

Rescue teams were still finding people alive under the rubble, providing the only moments of relief and happiness.

His takeoffs and landings are a mess: sloppy and violent, they invariably leave a heap of trouble and general rubble in his wake.

It may still be dusting the rubble of the global economic collapse off itself, but Iceland is king when it comes to gender equality.

Sometimes in this semi-consciousness he sojourned again in Paris, or war German rubble, or Swiss skiing and a snow hotel.

The entire country was buried under rubble -- more than 400million cubic meters of it alone in what would become West Germany.

These clean and neat streets lined with tall buildings make people hardly believe that the place was once a stretch of rubble and ruins.

After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the results .

Heads bowed, helmets in their hands, soldiers balanced on the rubble of a town devastated by last week's earthquake.

Some of those still in the tent cities see them as a better option than renting. And a lot of rubble has been cleared.

Rescuers managed to dig six of the workers from the rubble, before sending them to hospital and are continuing to search for the others.

Charged by the Truckload Unrecoverable rubbish like mud, human waste, building rubble and domestic waste is dumped directly into the pit.

Somewhere under the rubble, he soon learned, his mother-in-law lay buried.

Emergency workers were struggling late Friday to rescue students trapped in the rubble of a three-storey building.

Japanese military search through the rubble for victims in the earthquake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan.

In the rubble piles, must rescue promptly occupies the house first floor or has not been destructed completely in the basement survivor.

A few hundred desperate people scavenged in the rubble in a downtown shopping street.

Thousands of houses destroyed during the Israeli assault on Hamas early this year are heaps of rubble.

Piotr looked down at the builders' rubble and the canopy of cow parsley flourishing between the blocks of new flats.

Both of those numbers are expected to rise in the coming days, as many victims are still trapped under collapsed buildings and rubble.

He got to great lengths to hand out from the rubble .

Until the cement core is built, the cofferdams are made of rubble which is simply dumped into the river.

An unknown number of others are still believed to be trapped beneath the rubble.

Santiago's international airport was forced to close, a highway bridge collapsed and rubble from damaged buildings fell on to the streets.

Officials say many of the missing are among 161 bodies that have been pulled from the rubble so far.

Rescue workers are continuing to dig through the rubble in and around Jiegu in Yushu County.

At first it was impossible to see any sign of the choppers amid the growth and rubble.

Wearing a hard hat, he was shown standing on rubble and consoling trapped survivors through a loud speaker.

Amid the rubble of the financial crisis, the US position as singular superpower and global economic top dog looks increasingly under threat.

Stairwells are turned on their sides, the market place is rubble, and the western side of the town is buried under a massive landslide.

The explosion reduced the building to (a pile of) rubble, ie totally demolished it.

Rescuers are working to dig out those trapped in rubble. Hundreds of troops have been dispatched to the region to assist in the effort.

I tend to look for meaning and truth in residue and rubble of our daily world, rather than in the pursuit of our ideals.

Farmland and whole villages have been swept away, bridges turned to rubble, and survivors left without access to food or clean water.

T-Bag swings his shovel in the hole while the rest of the men pour the concrete rubble behind the newly lain sheetrock.

As l sifted through the rubble of my marriage skirmish, l had a thought.

The survivors were left destitute in only the soot-covered clothes they stood in, their noble buildings shattered into rubble.

The girls had been sleeping in the yard beside their father's lifeless arm, which protruded from the rubble.

Around me I saw complete devastation; countless uprooted trees, farms destroyed by tanks and bombs, and houses reduced to rubble.

Thankfully, my immediate family is okay, but my grandmother's house collapsed, and a brother and a nephew are under the rubble.

We are going to spare no effort to save lives. We are not going to let up. Even if there is one person under the rubble, we will save him.

Within two hours, a European capital had been reduced to rubble, swept by floods and consumed by fire.

After Genghis Khan's unruly hordes reduced Beijing to rubble, the capital was redesigned with these narrow alleyways crisscrossing the city.

Bridges fell and many streets were covered with rubble. Fires were reported. Several hospitals collapsed.

A snail crawls out of rubble and climbs towards a tower crane on a construction site.

Vending machine lies on top of the rubble in the earthquake- and tsunami-destroyed town of Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan.

The last of seven bodies was pulled from the rubble at the site of Saturday's crane collapse in Manhattan.

Rescuers were forced to briefly postpone their efforts as the after-shocks dislodged more rubble from buildings.

Instead of the finding the top terrorist, the troops found the bodies of six dead children in the rubble of the completely destroyed school.

Many children here lost friends, family members and some even had to help move dead bodies from the rubble.

Meanwhile, the police organization manpower, search and rescue survivors in the rubble.

More than 100, 000 troops and police have been deployed to help survivors and to rescue people trapped by rubble and landslides.

Rescuers continued their attempts to save those trapped beneath the rubble at schools, businesses and homes.

The center had predicted, a lot of rubble caused by the tsunami will flow through the Pacific, three years after arriving in the U. S.

Reconstruction of the catwalk and rubble causeway of the existing Tung Ping Chau Public Pier and improving the facilities of the pier.

A crane is clearing the rubble of an elementary school to speed its chances of receiving outside assistance to rebuild.

We stopped at a deep trench where a section of the Roman forum was poking out from under three metres of earth and rubble.

We have spent our revenue to help others rebuild from rubble and develop their own economies.

Eventually, enough rubble was cleared that a woman's hand became visible emerging from the debris, a thin band on the right ring finger.

Officials in China are trying to secure 15 sources of radiation that were buried in the rubble of last week's earthquake.

Even today, very few bankers look over the rubble of Wall Street and think they were overpaid.

Amid the economic rubble, travelers have adopted a back-to-basics mentality, seeking quality at the right price.

Indonesian rescue workers searched by hand through rubble Thursday looking for trapped survivors from Wednesday's earthquake. ?

He was trapped under the rubble of his own music school in Haiti, in Port-au- Prince for 18 hours.

"We came from under the rubble. We have many injuries. Our houses have been destroyed and all of my relatives have been killed, " she says.

Tears swelled in my eyes when I saw towns and cities were flattened and children of my son's age were buried in the rubble.

There is always hope even in despair. A man was rescued from rubble two weeks after the earthquake in Haiti.

Under the fire- scorched rubble, the scientists discovered the first of at least 36 bodies, victims of some brutal event 40 centuries ago.

An ornamental wall obscures some of the remaining small shops, while others are now rubble.

The test results were accompanied by a sweeping restructuring plan aimed at creating two Irish bank pillars from the rubble.

We salvaged it from the rubble of our house and put it aside by the road, but someone stole it.

Yet most of this aid will arrive too late for the thousands who remain trapped in rubble or waiting for treatment.

he says, amid the rubble, yielding words and encouragement and ordering army generals to save lives at any cost.

Cranes have been brought in to try and shift rubble in a desperate effort to find survivors.

FIVE musicians in neat evening dress were singing Mozart's Requiem in a bombed-out library, or rather amid a heap of rubble.

With roads blocked by rubble, they then escaped through the woods to a community center about 20 meters above sea level.

For this mission, it will be configured with firefighting capabilities that allow it to deploy fire hoses or clear away rubble.

Untold numbers of Haitians are dead, trapped in rubble or missing after the country's worst earthquake in two centuries.

Resentment was evident last month at a vast rubble-strewn site on the outskirts of Zhengzhou, a large industrial city south-west of Beijing.

The work involves clearing roads, ridding public areas of rubble and collecting corpses, some of which were being burned Thursday.

We quickly found the huge pile of rubble where two hotels once stood, and set up for live television shots.

But the possibility that dead bodies may still emerge as the rubble is cleared is not being ruled out.

Soldiers, police and aid workers are everywhere, making it impossible for any group to really pick through the rubble.

As a result, a higher number of workers had to turn to rubble clearance.

Facebook's new Washington office, designed to look like a hacker's lair, with walls of faux construction rubble, is a work in progress.

But distribution is being slowed by congestion at the Port-au-Prince airport, rubble-filled streets and security problems.

More teams were on the rubble this day; one could tell by the numerous red flags that dotted the demolished residential areas.

Several people are feared to have been buried under the rubble and rescue teams are combing the area.

And the rubble is strewn all over the ground outside of here.

Rescue workers have been searching through the rubble for survivors.

Intertidal to a few meters depth (Ref. 48636). Usually found in areas of mixed coral, sand, and rubble (Ref. 9710).

The little statue was made of rubble.

Fleets of lorries haul bricks and steel into the earthquake zone and carry rubble out, kicking up thick clouds of dust on the roads.

They were smashed apart, and under some of the rubble are the people who once lived there.

China and Russia both have stockpiles of nukes that in a day or so could turn the US into rubble.

Meanwhile, many homeowners are returning to find firefighters dousing smoldering flames and their belongings buried in piles of rubble.

It is in this area that thirty members of the same family were killed, I saw the mourning tent pitched amongst the rubble.

Japanese military walk by a body lying in the rubble of a village destroyed, March 15, 2011 in Rikuzentakata, Miyagi province.

Atop piles of rubble were photo albums and baby strollers and a pink teddy bear.

Vast areas have been completely flattened, with houses and businesses reduced to rubble.

Walking through the rubble of the camp one afternoon, Seelaus, who often picked up volcanic pumice stones, spotted a special one.

It is now heaped with builders' rubble and protected by a wall while she and her family have been forced to find a roof elsewhere.

A woman began crying, saying a waitress was still alive in the rubble.

When the Japan earthquake and tsunamis struck, they applied their research to the rubble sucked into the Pacific Ocean from Japan.

COOPER (voice-over): In the rubble of the National Cathedral today, a reminder that faith can help someone survive.

Witnesses described a scene of devastation, with burned-out vehicles, twisted rubble and charred trees littering the area.

The guy is in the rubble, and amazingly he is still alive after the explosion.

A crust appears to have formed over the volcanic rubble.

Hundreds died and thousands were trapped under rubble as scores of buildings, including hospitals, collapsed.

As rescue operations continue, thousands more still may be buried in the rubble, authorities fear.

The main Carboniferous reservoir rocks in Kaijiang area are granular and rubble dolomites.

Other parents wail as soldiers in blue masks trudge through the mud, hauling bodies from the rubble on stretchers .

Another annoying thing was that on the 3rd night someone was clearing rubble and it continued until 1am!

Footage showed the streets of a village near Hsiao-lin covered by thick mud and rubble.

Man believed the lie. . . . and I nearly ended up tornado rubble.

As he lay trapped in the ruins, rescuers tried frantically with their hands to shift the rubble.

A restaurant frequented by young college students is now a pile of rubble.

In the 6. 3 magnitude earthquake 22, the office building where Emma was razed to the ground, she was buried in the rubble.

A man covered with mud waits amidst the rubble in front of the damaged Ministry of Economy and Finance in Port-au-Prince.

The short-span, monolithic structure is formed using recycled rubble, brick and stone contained within wire gabions.

A New York City fireman calls for more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center.