31.   Evacuation centers were set up at two local schools.

32.   Evacuated polder areas were eerily silent and devoid of any life, man or animal, as flood refugees waited in evacuation centers for permission to return.

33.   Hundreds of people spent Tuesday night in makeshift evacuation centers.

34.   Hundreds of people spent Monday night in schools and other evacuation centers, Japanese news media reported.

35.   Last week, a series of powerful explosions rained ash on several villages, forcing more people into evacuation centers.

36.   Many villagers, although living outside the danger zone, have remained in evacuation centers for fear of mudflows during the current rainy season.

37.   More than a hundred buses rounded up polder residents and took them to evacuation centers.

38.   Nervous residents who had gathered in evacuation centers were returning home a few hours after the quake hit.

39.   Numerous homes were flooded and dozens of families took shelter in evacuation centers, said Wendell Hatada, a Hawaii County civil defense official.

40.   Officials organized a search near the village of Bonga for four farmers and one child missing but they were later found, unharmed, in an evacuation center.