November 29, 2011
The Song Tranh 2 hydropower dam is suspected to have triggered off some minor earthquakes in Quang Nam Province. (Photo: Tuoi Tre newspaper) A minor earthquake, the third in a month, shook the central province of Quang Nam Sunday night, local authorities said. Dang Phong, chairman of the Bac Tra My District People’s Committee, told [...]
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November 21, 2011
Song Tranh 2 hydropower dam in central Vietnam A small earthquake with underground explosion sounds in central Vietnam on Wednesday night might have been caused by a local hydropower dam, an expert says. Â The earthquake was recorded in Quang Nam Province at a magnitude of lower than 3.5 on the Richter scale. Â Dr [...]
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October 25, 2011
A rescue worker carries Azra Karaduman, a two-week-old baby who was pulled from the debris of the earthquake in Ercis. The mother of the infant was also alive but buried in the wreckage of their home. Rescuers plucked a two-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother from the rubble of Turkey’s devastating earthquake on Tuesday, [...]
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October 25, 2011
A couple pass by a pancake a day after a powerful earthquake in the town of Ercis in Van province, Turkey, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Hopes faded Tuesday of finding more survivors as rescuers under floodlights scrabbled desperately through the rubble of an earthquake that killed at least 279 people in eastern Turkey. The rescue [...]
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September 10, 2011
An aerial handout photograph from an unmanned airplane taken on March 20 shows the No. 3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Shaken to the core by the havoc wreaked by the tsunami in March, in particular the massive nuclear disaster it spawned, Japan is [...]
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September 1, 2011
Residents look at a map of the planned nuclear power plant in Ninh Thuan Province’s Thuan Nam District. After scientists detected new faults near the site, experts have urged that the plans be deferred. Two fault lines hitherto uncovered have provoked myriad calls for Vietnam’s nuclear power plans to be deferred on safety considerations. Serious [...]
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August 23, 2011
Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech before survivors of the earthquake and tsunami during his visit at Sendai airport in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, August 23, 2011. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Japan’s quake-hit northeast on Tuesday and said the country would recover from the disaster just as the United States would overcome its [...]
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August 5, 2011
A rehearsal for a six-meter tsunami will be carried out in the central region’s city of Da Nang this October, officials said a city meeting on Wednesday. Â Nearly 3,000 people are expected to join the tsunami-drill in Son Tra District, including more than 2,100 police officers and soldiers. Â The rehearsal will follow [...]
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May 10, 2011
A 4.2-magnitude earthquake hit the northwestern province of Son La on Sunday, but no injuries or structural damages were reported. The earthquake occurred in the Song Ma District and it was rather weak, according to the Center for Earthquake Information and Tsunami Forecasts under the Vietnam Institute of Geophysics. It was the fifth earthquake [...]
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April 11, 2011
A family prays as they remember disaster victims nearby the site of their home which was destroyed in the recent tsunami. Japan fell silent at 2:46 pm Monday as people across the country remembered the thousands killed by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11 and the monster tsunami it created. In the devastated city [...]
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