Posts Tagged ‘earthquake’
Written by julie on 13 November 2011
Share After the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Turkey shoot up to 32 on Saturday, including two journalists, authorities said. Releasing the new number of casualties, which was 27 earlier Saturday, the emergency unit of the prime minister’s office said on its website that 30 people had been rescued since [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 19 September 2011
Share Due to rain and landslides the rescue efforts were blocked. Hundreds of workers in search for survivors of a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook a remote Himalayan region in northern India, at least 26 people were killed, police and media said on Monday. In the state of Sikkim at least seven people died which [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 26 July 2011
Share An earthquake reportedly hit parts of Metro Manila and Central Luzon on Tuesday at around 1:15 a.m., with a magnitude 6.2, based on the Philippine Volcanology and Seismology Institute (Phivolcs) report;However, the US Geological Service (USGS) recorded it at magnitude 5.9. The shaking was felt in Clark, Pampanga , Quezon [Continue reading]
Written by ynelperia on 12 May 2011
Share Two powerful earthquakes rocked southern Spain on Wednesday, cracking highways, toppling buildings, collapsing a tunnel, injuring dozens and killing at least 10 people. The earthquakes, with magnitudes of 4.4 and 5.2, killed at least 10 people and injured dozens in Lorca, a town of about 91,000 in the municipality of Murcia, government [Continue reading]
Written by ynelperia on 11 April 2011
Share Families start to move into temporary housing provided by the government after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the country a month ago. While Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan promised to assist fishermen along the ravaged coast get back to their boats. The temporary housing which was lined in a high school parking lot [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 07 April 2011
Share Reportedly, Japan was again shook by a strong aftershock. A tsunami warning was issued Thursday night just a month following a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast. The tsunami warning was issued by Japan meteorological agency for a wave of up to one meter (3.2 feet). The warning was [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 05 April 2011
Share Reportedly, an intensity of 4.2 earthquake rocked Eastern Samar at 1:59 a.m. Tuesday. Phivolcs said the epicenter of the tremor was located 28 kilometers northeast of Dolores town. Meanwhile, Bobby Cañete of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology station in Palo, Leyte, said there was no damage. Share [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 04 April 2011
Share Seeking refuge, residents escaped an Indonesian port town for higher ground on Monday after an earthquake rocked south of Java with an intensity estimated by US seismologists at 6.7. The epicenter in the Indian Ocean was 24 kilometers (15 miles) miles deep, the US Geological Survey said, after initially estimating it at 10 [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 28 March 2011
Share Japan reportedly raised a tsunami warning following a 6.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the northeast coast of Japan on Monday, the weather agency said. Earlier, the Japan Meteorological Agency had issued a 50-centimetre (18 inch) tsunami warning for the Pacific coast of Miyagi prefecture, which was damaged by the [Continue reading]
Written by julie on 28 March 2011
Share It appears that one sample of Massachusetts rainwater according to health officials has registered very low concentrations of radiation, this result seemed to come from the Japanese nuclear power plant destroyed earlier this month by an earthquake and tsunami. The radioactive isotope iodine-131 found in the sample — [Continue reading]