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Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued Wednesday.

Bolstered by reinforcements, fire crews were focusing Wednesday on building containment lines around the 7-square-mile wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes in the mountains southwest of Denver and may have claimed two lives.

The magnitude 7.1 earthquake that rocked Chile on Sunday is not expected to be a significant insurance loss, while Japan once again experienced a significant quake today that fortunately caused no damage.

Improved building standards spared Mexico more damage and deaths from this weeks magnitude 7.4 earthquakeand U.S. builders can take a lesson from this event, one insurance association says.

Improved building standards spared Mexico more damage and deaths from this weeks magnitude 7.4 earthquakeand U.S. builders can take a lesson from this event, one insurance association says.

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A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Oaxaca, Mexico yesterday, destroying hundreds of homes. No fatalities have been reported, and catastrophe-modeler Eqecat says insured losses are expected to be under $100 million.

A strong, long 7.6-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in Guerrero state on Tuesday, followed by an aftershock that shook central southern Mexico, swayed buildings in Mexico City and sent frightened workers and residents into the streets.