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has gloss | eng: The Paez river disaster was caused by a rather superficial earthquake (with a 10 km deep epicentre, 6.4 on the Richter scale) and subsequent mudslide that destroyed the small town of Paez, located on the foothills of the Central Cordillera of the Andes in Cauca Department in South-western Colombia, which took place on June 6, 1994. It was estimated that killed 1,100 people, mostly from the Paez ethnia were killed in some 15 settlements on the Paez River basin, Cauca and Huila Departments of which the homonymous town of Paez suffered 50% of the death toll. |
lexicalization | eng: 1994 Paez river earthquake |
instance of | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity temblor, quake, earthquake, seism |
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