PORTUGAL: 20% Loss

Maria de Jesus Victoriano, a peasant woman of Carvalhinho, was on her way to the top of 2,800-ft. Mount Carvalho one day last week to gather hay. "I was looking at the sky and hoping the sun would drive the fog away," she said later. "Then I heard a great hissing and roaring overhead. I thought the mountain below me had exploded." For the next few seconds, shock after shock rent the earth all around her, sending ribbons and streams of flame and debris in all directions. "It was terrible," she said, "but the silence that followed was more terrible...

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