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WeatherWatch.co.nz has received exclusive video of the powerful 7.5 quake in Vanuatu.
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ChrisMB on 12/08/2010 11:51am
I’m curious to know why two of them got up before it started shaking violently…
was it the noise or a shake that we couldn’t see from the camera?
No matter what, watching the two guys trying to get out of the door and the other bracing himself, they must have felt so insignificant….
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