1.   Congress considers legislation to create a national insurance pool for earthquake disasters.

2.   Despite years of solving crimes, controlling riots, managing earthquake disasters, it is a look of thanks from a stranded motorist that the captain remembers most.

3.   I would have been very moved by the earthquake disaster in Turkey too, but the truth is that I am afraid to turn on the news anymore.

4.   Robert Olshansky, a University of Illinois planning professor, says recent earthquake disaster scenes could be replayed in an area stretching from St. Louis to Memphis, Tenn.

5.   Rage grows against Turkish state, army after earthquake disaster.

6.   The company also said it expects its operations in Turkey to be affected by the recent earthquake disaster and its Chinese operations to be hurt by recent flooding.

7.   Witness Steve Hills said the accident that scattered skiers below him looked like an earthquake disaster.

8.   Japan has accepted a British offer to supply blankets, plastic sheeting and water containers to victims of the Kobe earthquake disaster, a British embassy spokesman said Sunday.

9.   Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama pledged Thursday to tighten construction standards in a bid to prevent a repeat of the Kobe earthquake disaster.

10.   Many of the thousands of homeless from the Kobe earthquake disaster have ended up roaming the streets of neighbouring Osaka, which suffered minimal damage.