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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Catarina Demony and Pedro Nunes

With tears and uncertainty, locals leave earthquake-hit Azores island

People check in at an airport to leave Sao Jorge island on the last commercial flight of the day, amid small earthquakes recorded in the area, in Velas, Azores, Portugal, March 26, 2022. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes

With no idea when they might return, a retired couple had their picture taken outside their beloved house before leaving Sao Jorge, an island in Portugal's Azores that is bracing for disaster following a series of small earthquakes.

Fatima and Antonio Soares, who are in their 70s, decided to leave their home along with dozens of other residents on Saturday, a week since thousands of tremors started to rattle the volcanic, mid-Atlantic island.

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