1.   Large sections of the capital were blacked out following the earthquake.

2.   How will family members leave the area during the chaos following an earthquake?

3.   Major risks, especially related to fires following an earthquake, are not being addressed here.

4.   Meanwhile, construction shares were popular, traders said, as investors returned to the issues that might profit from the rebuilding of Kobe following the earthquake in January.

5.   Penta-Ocean was one of the most popular shares following the earthquake.

6.   Some say Atlantis was washed away by giant waves, possibly following earthquakes under the ocean.

7.   The earthquake was followed by an outbreak of looting and burglaries by refugees and roving gangs that bankrupted hundreds of merchants and sowed panic in many neighborhoods.

8.   A team of Cuban doctors has arrived in El Salvador to help control diseases following its earthquake, just weeks after the two countries exchanged bitter accusations.

9.   Following damaging earthquakes in the United States, Japanese experts had confidently predicted that roadways in this country would stand up to even a serious quake.

10.   It also issued warnings of possible tsunamis, or huge waves that sometimes follow earthquakes.