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A powerful earthquake killed up to 72 people in Kyrgyzstan and wrecked dozens of homes in the remote and mountainous south of the Central Asian state on Sunday, the country's Health Ministry said on Monday.
The epicenter of the quake struck the Ferghana valley, a populated trading region at the corner of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and...
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An earthquake of 3.8 degrees on the Richter scale rattled five southern Spanish provinces on Thursday, a spokesman for the National Seismic Network said.
No injuries or important damage were reported.
The quake, which was preceded by two smaller ones and followed by three aftershocks, had its epicentre southwest of Moron de la...
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 A strong earthquake of 6.2 magnitude has
hit Iceland, a geologically unstable
volcanic island in the north Atlantic, injuring
15 to 30 people and damaging several buildings. The U.S. Geological Survey said
the quake, with its epicentre near the town of Selfoss,
50km southeast of the capital Reykjavik,
had a magnitude of 6.2 and hit...
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 Britain was struck early today by
the strongest earthquake in twenty years, which could be felt throughout the
country, officials said.
According to the British
Geological Survey the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale,
and until now there have been no reports related to injuries, but the homes
have been...
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 A man pleaded guilty to a plot to abduct and behead a
British Muslim soldier in Birmingham, prosecutors told a court Tuesday.
According to investigators, the unemployed Briton planned to
kidnap the serviceman and then behead him “like a pig” with the help of five other
persons.
The prosecuting attorney, Nigel Rumfitt, told the...
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 A strong earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale shook many
parts of Greece Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of injury
or major damage, seismologists at the Athens Geodynamic Institute said.
The earthquake occurring at 7:14 am (0514 GMT) had an epicentre
approximately 60 kilometres north-east of the southern town...
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At least two persons were killed and 18 people injured in the southern Iranian province of Hormuzgan which was shaken on Wednesday by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake, a local official said.
Yasser Hazbavi, head of the provincial natural disaster headquarters, was quoted by Khabar news network as saying that rescue team were at the site and...
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A huge fire destroyed Managua's landmark
Oriental Market, wiping out 1,500 vendor stalls and causing an
estimated 100 million dollars in damage, local media reported early
Saturday. The conflagration raged Friday for 11 hours,
destroying most of the sprawling Mercado Oriental, reputedly Central
America's largest market hall. No...
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the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...
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 A powerful earthquake was registered in west Indonesia’s Sumatra Island
on Monday. Even though no great damages were discovered, the government
issued a tsunami warning. However, the warning was lifted just 45 minutes
later.
Hassanudin, a police officer in Bengkulu town, told Reuters
that “There are no reports of damages or...
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 Two undersea cables carrying
Internet traffic snapped in the Mediterranean Sea Wednesday, causing slowdown and outage
in the Middle East and South Asia. This caused
the internet service to be reduced by 50 percent in Egypt
and by 60 percent in Saudi Arabia
and India.
India is one of the most affected countries.
Dubai...
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 The San
Francisco Bay Bridge opened its gates eleven hours
earlier than scheduled. The bridge was closed down for major renovations as
part of a seismic retrofitting project.
Commuters had a nice surprise that the bridge was open for
traffic eleven hours earlier than the 70 hours predicted initially.
“I’m just glad the bridge...
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 The queue outside the Colosseum is long and winding. But with aching feet and the sun burning, waiting for an hour or so to get into the ancient amphitheatre does not seem an option.
A few metres away, two young Italians dressed as gladiators or Roman legionaries are having their picture taken by an enthusiastic tourist. Surely,...
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 A powerful earthquake shook Kyrgyzstan, close to China’s border. Sixty people were killed during the calamity, as the top emergency official of Kyrgyzstan announced on Monday. The former Soviet republic’s Emergency Situations Minister Kamchybek Tashiyev said that "according to preliminary figures, 60 people died and more than 100...
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Japanese real estate developer C's Create Co filed for bankruptcy Friday as the US mortgage and credit crisis plagued Japan's real estate sector.
The Tokyo-based firm said it had 11.44 billion yen (107.86 million dollars) in liabilities.
C's Create faced increased difficulties in procuring funds because of a global credit...
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An undersea earthquake registering 6.3 on the Richter scale struck early Tuesday evening off East Timor, but there were no reports of injury or damage, Indonesian seismological officials said.
The quake struck at 6:15 pm Jakarta time (1115 GMT), about 163 kilometres south-east of Dili, the capital of East Timor, according to...
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The Philippines and Australia signed agreements to receive tsunami warning information from the Comprehensive Nuclear- Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) on Friday.
These countries can now use CTBTO data from the organization's 232 seismic monitoring stations that were set up all over the globe to detect nuclear weapons...
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 Two powerful earthquakes frightened Asia on Thursday. This has led the officials and the residents to fear for a tsunami that lapped the northern coast of Japan and harmed Indonesia too. The most powerful earthquake had a 7 magnitude on Richter scale and hit off Japan’s main island, Hokkaido, at a depth of nearly 12 miles. 35 minutes...
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At least three people were killed and 22 injured Wednesday in a 6.1-magnitude earthquake near Bandar Abbas, a major oil port in the southern Iranian province of Hormuzgan, a local official said.
Yasser Hazbavi, head of the provincial natural disaster headquarters, was quoted as saying by Iran's Khabar news network that rescue teams...
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A strong earthquake on Wednesday jolted the southern Iranian province of Hormuzgan, the Khabar news network reported.
The quake, with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale, shook mainly the provincial port of Bandar Abbas, causing panic among residents.
It was not immediately clear whether there were casualties or damage.
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A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Taiwan Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The quake, which struck at 3:43 pm (0743 GMT), shook high-rise buildings in Taipei, sending jittery residents into the streets.
The quake was centred 86 kilometers east of the north-eastern...
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A shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's Sumatra island Tuesday, leaving one woman dead and 20 people injured, geologists and media reports said.
The quake hit at 10:07 am (0307 GMT) and was centred 51 kilometres south-west of Tebingtinggi in Bengkulu province, or about 64 kilometres north-west of Lahat in South Sumatra...
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 Sichuan, a town in the south of China, was shook by an earthquake of 6.1 magnitudes on Saturday. Rescue crews headed to the scene on Sunday to find 22 people dead and hundreds of injured people. The earthquake killed 17 people in Sichuan and 5 others in Yunnan, a near province.The China Earthquake Administration put the death toll at 25...
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An earthquake that measured 5.13 on the Richter scale hit Iraq's southern provinces of Basra and Maysan during the early hours of Thursday, causing no damage or casualties, according to news reports.
The epicenter of the earthquake was in the northeast of Amarah city in Maysan province. It occurred at 01.15 am (0415 GMT), the Voices...
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Japan's financial sector has been plagued by a series of bankruptcies of real-estate firms, giving rise to worries about Japan's economic outlook and having an impact Thursday on the stock exchange.
While the world's second-largest economy has been spared the worst effects of the US mortgage and credit crisis, rising debt among its...
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The billionaire owner of kung fu legend Bruce Lee's last home warned Monday he would scuttle plans for a museum at the site if Hong Kong's government did not allow him to build a tribute cinema, library and fan shops.
Chinese property developer Yu Panglin said in an interview Monday he would only go ahead with the highly-anticipated...
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Hundreds of homeless residents from East Java province demanded compensation for their properties destroyed by a massive mudflow caused by an industrial accident.
More than 14,000 homes, 33 schools, 65 mosques and an orphanage have been buried since May 2006 when a "mud volcano" began oozing to the surface following an...
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Chen Yibing and He Kexin continued China's strong showing in the gymnastics disciplines with victories in the men's rings and women's uneven bars Monday while Poland's Leszek Blanik took gold in the men's vault.
China also took gold in the women's trampoline when He Wenna finished ahead of Canada's Karen Cockburn and Jekaterina Chilko...
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 A 6.2-magnitude earthquake killed three people in southwest China's Sichuan province, injuring 22 others, local emergency officials said Wednesday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the epicenter of the earthquake was an estimated 50 kilometers (30 miles) north-northwest of Guangyuan, in close proximity to Sichuan’s border with...
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An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Ritcher
scale shook a large area of south-western China's Sichuan province on
Friday afternoon, the government said. The quake was recorded
at 4:32 pm (0832 GMT) Friday with an epicentre close to several of the
areas worst-hit in the devastating May 12 earthquake in Sichuan, the
State...
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 Inhabitants of northern Japan said on Friday that thorough
preparations and lessons learned from the outbursts of other earthquakes
reduced the destructions generated by the most recent major tremor to affect
the region, according to AFP.
Because the country is so predisposed to earthquakes,
residents are constantly organizing for...
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6.8 magnitude earthquake stroke Japan on Thursday, causing injuries on 103 people and destroying 31 buildings. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake shook north-central Japan. Its epicenter was in the east part of Honshu and began at about 12:26 a.m. (10:26 a.m. ET).It lasted for nearly 40 seconds, but it was enough to...
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 According to Reuters, a powerful earthquake shook northern Japan early on Wednesday, injuring at least 91 people, triggering landslides and temporarily leaving thousands of homes without electricity. In line with The Japan Meteorological Agency’s statement, there is no risk of a tsunami as a consequence of the earthquake. The seismograph...
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 Beijing's Tiananmen Square was closely watched by security forces during Wednesday's anniversary of the 1989 repression on pro-democracy protests. At access points to Tiananmen Square, police searched bags for banners or other materials containing dissident messages. Calls for the release of political prisoners before of this year's...
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 June 2 – The search for survivors
continues in the mountainous earthquake-struck region of Sichuan for a crashed helicopter engaged in
quake relief work.
The Chinese military has already
sent 1,240 troopers to look after the crashed chopper and four helicopters were sent in action to survey the suspected crash sites. The search...
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Due to the immediate danger that
threatens the lives of people living in the areas of Tangjiashan Lake, China
was forced to evacuate almost 160,000 of them. According to China Daily, “up to
1.3 million people from 33 townships of Mianyang city could be relocated if the
lake barrier collapses entirely.”
The so-called “quake lake”...
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 A 5-magnitude aftershock rattled windows in Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu in the early hours of Tuesday, scaring
residents who feared another earthquake after the devastating May 12 main
quake.
According to China’s
Xinhua news agency, the number killed in that province had risen to 39,577.
A number of fresh...
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The chaos started last Monday when an
earthquake at about 7.9 magnitude on the Richter scale hit the Sichuan province in China. A blast of another 20
aftershocks of 5.0 or above on the Richter scale was experienced during the
past days.
The human loss is being approximated at around
50,000 persons. Many of them can still be alive...
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 A powerful earthquake devastated China, killing about 10,000 people,
toppling thousands of homes, factories, offices and schools. It was China’s worst
natural disaster in 32 years. It ravaged the mountainous region outside Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province,
destroying 80 percent of structures in some of the towns and small cities...
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 A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit China
at 6:33 a.m. on Friday, 140 miles southeast of the city of Hotan in southwest Xinjang province.
According to the state media there were no injuries, but several houses
collapsed, the Associated Press reports.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGC) geophysicist Dale Grant
mentioned the area as...
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 Western part of Indonesia was hit by a strong
earthquake Wednesday, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter scale,
the U. S. Geological Survey reported, according to the Associated Press.
The quake, which was deep under
the sea, struck the western coast of Sumatra island close to Simeulue Island at
3:08 pm local...
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 A powerful earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter rattled the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Wednesday, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami warning.The quake was centered about 250 miles southwest of Maluku's island chain and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, China's Xinhua news agency reported from...
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According to local media, a fire broke out at japans nuclear power plant on
Thursday after being slightly damaged by an earthquake in July. Plant officials
say that no radioactive material leaked.
The fire, which was extinguished by a plant worker, started from a power
cable of an air conditioner on the roof of a building at...
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 After suffering a great earthquake on Friday, with a death
toll of 13 people, Indonesia
is getting back on its feet with the rushed help of rescue workers.
The massive earthquake followed another one which occurred a
day before. Both of them took place in the Sumatra
region, taking 13 lives.
Although officials say the danger is...
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 A powerful earthquake hit off Indonesia's
Sumatra Island on Thursday, killing nine people
and injuring another ten. Although hundreds of homes were damaged, casualties
appeared to be lower than expected.
According to an official at Bengkulu, Provincial Disaster Coordination Post told Agence France-Presse that Bengkulu had suffered...
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 A powerful earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale has hit Indonesia. Its epicentre was 65 miles east from the Jakarta city on the north coast of the island of Java. The quake occurred at a depth of 289 kilometers at 0:04 a.m. Jakarta time.There was no danger of a tsunami forming, due to the extreme depth at which the quake...
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A powerful typhoon rain pounded the Japanese island of Kyushu on Thursday forcing cancelation of a significant number of flights. The Japanese Meteorological Agency said that the typhoon, named Usagi (rabbit in Japanese) packed winds gusting up to 180 km per hour (112 mph).The Kyushu and Shikoku islands were also expected to be affected...
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 An undersea earthquake has struck the north-eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, triggering the issuing of a tsunami warning. However, the warning was later canceled. The quake's epicenter was situated 130 miles north of Ternate city and had a magnitude of 6.6 Richter, officials said.The quake occurred under the Maluku (Molucca)...
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 While the southern regions are battered by heavy rain and strong winds, northern Japan was struck early Monday by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that killed four persons and caused nuclear reactors to shut down.The most affected region was Niigata prefecture, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, where two people were caught under rubble from...
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 China was shaken seriously Sunday morning by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale, at least three persons being killed in the southwestern province of Yunnan.China’s Earthquake Administration located the quake’s epicenter in the Ning'er county, a few kilometers from the Myanmar border. The strong temblor hit China...
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An earthquake in Laos shook up Thailand and caused thousands of workers to flee from swaying high-rise office buildings in the Thai capital Bangkok, but there were no damages reported, as the capital is about 500 miles from the quake area.The quake was measured at magnitude 6.1 by U.S. Geological Survey and Thailand's Meteorological...
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 Actress Sharon Stone played with fire when
she said that the devastating earthquake in China
was the result of bad “karma,” a consequence of Beijing’s
policy towards the province
of Tibet. The actress
said she is not happy with the way Chinese are treating the Tibetans because
she doesn’t think “anyone should be unkind with anyone...
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 When asked about the recent earthquake in China that claimed the life of 68,109 people,
with another 19,851 still missing, actress Sharon Stone said that the devastating
earthquake was a consequence of Beijing’s policy
towards the province
of Tibet. She said the
catastrophe could have been the result of bad “karma.”
She said: “I...
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 The predawn earthquake that occurred on Friday, centered in southern Illinois, has reminded people that the Midwest region is threatened as much as other earthquake prone areas of the country.The 5.2 magnitude earthquake, which had hit at 4:36 am, was felt on an area of about 120.000 square miles from Nebraska to Atlanta, but its center...
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 43 people died and 350 were injured in Africa’s Great Lakes region after two earthquakes occurred Sunday.
The first earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 and its epicenter in Bukavu in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, happened at 10:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m. EST), followed
by another 5.0 quake in southern Rwanda at 1:56 p.m. (5:56 a.m.
EST),...
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 Part of the earthquake-stricken New Zealand city of Gisborne remained
behind barricades and under a state of emergency on Friday night as
civil defence chiefs told residents to check on their neighbours nearly
24 hours after a disastrous shake.
An elderly woman, who reportedly suffered a heart attack just after
the quake struck on...
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 A massive earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck New
Zealand on Thursday evening, collapsing three buildings and starting
several fires in the city of Gisborne, on the east coast of the North
Island, but there were no reports of serious casualties.
Police cordoned off the main street where the roofs of several
shops...
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 On Friday, seismologists said that although things have cooled down a bit during the past few days in the strongly shaken Reno, a major earthquake is still not out of the question.According to John Anderson, director of the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno, the fact that the activity has recorded a decrease in...
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 For the first time in the history scientists said on Monday that the entire California state faces an almost certain risk to be hit by a strong earthquake during the next 30 years.In the most comprehensive and descriptive geological forecast for California, scientists said that their latest calculations resulted in a 99.7 percent chance...
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 A team of scientists have
recently obtained a rock from an active fault zone that was 2.3 miles (3.7
kilometers) below the earth surface. The rock represents the first ever such
sample and it will provide to the scientists new clues and information about earthquakes
and how they start in fact.
The samples of this rock have
been...
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A brief earthquake rattled Los Angeles on
Tuesday, causing downtown buildings to sway, sending a jolt to outlying
areas and causing parents to rush to schools to check on their
children.
The US Geological Survey said the quake was a magnitude 5.4 on the
Richter scale, after earlier saying it had been as strong as 5.8.
There were...
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 A magnitude-5.2 earthquake shook southern Illinois early Friday, the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGG) said. It appears there were no immediate reports of major
damage after the quake, which struck at 4:36 a.m. The Associated Press mentioned
that a porch collapsed in Mount Carmel,
Illinois, briefly trapping a woman
in her home. She was...
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 Tuesday, March 25, two workers were killed and five others
were injured when a section of a construction crane collapsed and fell on a
building that a contractor used for storage. This was the second crane accident
in the last 10 days. A similar accident in New York killed seven people. It happened on
March 16, when a 20-story crane...
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 The northeastern Nevada town Wells was rocked by a powerful earthquake
Thursday at 6:16 a.m. according to The Associated Press. The 6.0 magnitude
earthquake was felt from northern Idaho and Utah to Southern California.
Despite people’s shock no serious injuries were registered.
However, there were great damages in Nevada. According...
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Alaska's seismically active Aleutian Islands were shook by a large
earthquake which according to immediate reports did not cause any damages or
injuries.
The magnitude-7.2 quake struck at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and was centered about 125
miles west of Adak in the island chain, according to a preliminary report by
the U.S....
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 According to local authorities, a strong earthquake struck
the eastern Caribbean yesterday, damaging buildings on several islands and
killing at least one person.
France's overseas minister, Christian Estrosi, told French
television that about 100 people on the French island of Martinique had
required medical treatment for minor...
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Rescuers trying to reach the six miners trapped in the collapsed Utah mine had to turn back, meeting what they assesed as "impassable conditions." The only safe alternative is now to drill from the top of the mountain, which will take days."We will be on our feet until we get these men out, one way or another," Robert...
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Tokyo Electric Power Co
(TEPCO) on Monday said it expected a net loss of 280 billion yen (2.6
billion dollars) due to surging oil prices and costs of procurement
from other power suppliers. The company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
nuclear power station, which is the world's largest by output capacity,
has been suspended since an...
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 Toyota Motor Corp. announced it will resume works at more than half of car assembly lines in Japan on Tuesday. Mazda and Honda will also restart production after the operations were shut down due to a major earthquake that cut off supplies of key components to factories.Riken Corp.’s plant in Kashiwazaki, where pistons are produced, was...
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 Several strong aftershocks shook northern Chile Thursday, one day after
a powerful earthquake hit the same area leaving at least 2 dead and
damaging property of 15,000 people.
The US Geological Survey in Washington reported quakes measuring
6.8, 6.2 and 5.6 on the Richter scale within minutes of each other on
Thursday...
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 An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck northern Chile Wednesday, prompting panic and power cuts in the region.
There were no immediate reports of casualties, but Chilean authorities were still awaiting data from remote areas.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) in Denver, Colorado, said the
epicenter of the quake that...
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 Peru is confronted with the jeopardy of infectious diseases
spreading and looting in the aftermath of the Wednesday 8
magnitude earthquake. Pisco is the most devastated town and President Alan Garcia has been monitoring
rescue efforts since Friday.
Though at first the first man in the state dismissed the
looting as rumors, the...
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 A strong earthquake of over 7 on the Richter scale shattered Peru,
casualties rising at more than 71 people killed and at least 680 injured,
announced governmental sources.
Central Peru was the most affected, the towns of Ica and
Pisco were the most damaged, according to Deputy Health Minister Jose Calderon.
The first and...
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 A powerful earthquake rattled Guatemala and parts of El Salvador Wednesday sending terrified residents rushing into the streets for safety and causing traffic chaos in Guatemala City.Land slides were reported in the southwest province of Escuintla and phone service was interrupted in some areas According to the U.S. Geological Survey the...
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