Lake Kariba ferry deaths reach 72 and a Flores earthquake kills at least 47
The death toll from a ferry sinking on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe rose to 72, and a magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Flores in Indonesia killed at least 47 people.
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The death toll from a ferry sinking on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe rose to 72, and a magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Flores in Indonesia killed at least 47 people.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Colombia's Chocó department was first reported to have killed at least 288 people, and a later accounting cited more than 240 dead, 570 injured, and at least 3,000 missing.
All ten climbers caught in a Broad Peak avalanche, including Nirmal Purja, were confirmed dead, a plane crash near the Nazca Lines killed 13, and a magnitude 7.1 quake in Kumamoto killed at least 13.
The figure was a further rise after earlier counts of 188 and then 920 in the days just after the Yaracuy doublet.
A magnitude 7.2 foreshock and a magnitude 7.5 mainshock hit northwestern Venezuela, with casualties first listed as unknown and later counted in the hundreds.
At least 35 people were killed in the Philippine quake, the toll later rose, and NOAA called the spring the country's second-warmest on record.