A 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Tanzania has killed 10 and injured 100

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A 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Tanzania on Saturday left 10 people dead and about 100 injured in the east African country. The quake was only about six miles below the surface, making its effects severe. Local reports show collapsed buildings in the city of Bukoba, near the earthquake's epicenter.

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Bonnie Kristian
Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.