Year in Pictures: 2001

January:
Thirty thousand people died in the earthquake that rattled the Indian state of Gujarat, and more than 1 million were left homeless. And a world away in the central American nation of El Salvador, more than 700 people died in another quake — hundreds of them buried under a mudslide that tore through a shanty town at Las Colinas.

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