Powerful magnitude 6.8 quake strikes off Taiwan
TAPEI, Taiwan - Officials say a powerful earthquake has struck at the Pacific Ocean off southeastern Taiwan, but no damage or injuries have been reported. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau says the magnitude 6.8 quake hit at around 9:57 a.m. on Sunday (0157 GMT Sunday). It was faintly felt in Taiwan.
The bureau says the epicenter was located at the Pacific Ocean about 140 miles (230 kilometers) south of the eastern island of Lanyu, which is about 180 miles (300 kilometers) southeast of the capital, Taipei.
The epicenter was as deep as 29 miles (46 kilometers) below the ocean surface.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24910988/
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Powerful Quake Leaves Iceland Residents Homeless, Cleanup Effort Begins
The tremor that struck Thursday afternoon had a magnitude of 6.2, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The worst damage was mainly to building interiors in Hveragerdi and Selfoss, about 30 miles east of the capital, Reykjavik.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,360622,00.html
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Powerful Quake Ravages China, Killing Thousands
The quake, which was estimated preliminarily to have had a magnitude of 7.9, ravaged a mountainous region outside Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, just after lunchtime Monday, destroying 80 percent of structures in some of the towns and small cities near its epicenter, Chinese officials said. Its tremors were felt as far away as Vietnam and set off another, smaller quake in the outskirts of Beijing, 900 miles away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/wo...a/13china.html
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Powerful quake strikes Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A powerful earthquake shook buildings and caused panic on the densely-populated Indonesian island of Java, but there have been no reports of injuries and no tsunami alert. Shaken residents stand outside an apartment building in Kunigan, South Jakarta The quake, measured at magnitude 7.5 by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck shortly after midnight in a part of the sea dotted with oil rig platforms, Financial Times journalist John Aglionby told CNN International.
He described feeling the quake in his house in a suburb of the Indonesian capital.
"I was just getting into bed on the second floor of my house. You rarely feel these things in Jakarta so I knew something was wrong immediately .
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc...ake/index.html
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Major Chile quake kills 2, hurts more than 150
Damage reported after 7.7 temblor, which was felt as far away as Brazil
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21788369/
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Magnitude-4.2 earthquake hits South Korea's Jeju island
SEOUL, -- A magnitude-4.2 earthquake struck South Korea's southern resort island of Jeju on Saturday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. The earthquake erupted at 9:22 p.m. (1222 GMT) and left some residents and buildings in the island shaken, it said. There have been no reports of injuries or property damage in the earthquake so far, Yonhap quoted unnamed weather officials as saying. The quake is believed to have originated in the sea 78 km south of the island, South Korean weather officials said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_8292263.htm
