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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October 26, 2011
Rescue workers carry a baby from a collapsed building in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van, October 25, 2011. Emergency workers rescued a 27-year-old woman alive from a collapsed building on Wednesday, three days after an earthquake killed more than 400 people in eastern Turkey, but hopes of finding more survivors faded and [...]
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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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August 26, 2011
An earthquake of 5.1 on the Richter scale shook the seas some 300 kilometers off Vietnam’s central province of Phu Yen early Thursday morning, Vietnam News Agency reported. Its focal depth reached around 250 kilometers, which made it an “intermediate-depth” quake. Though the quake was strong, its epicenter was too far from the mainland [...]
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May 31, 2011
Japan’s economy offered more signs of recovery from the deadly March earthquake on Tuesday, but Moody’s ratings agency warned both growth and government action may fall short of what is necessary to bring Tokyo’s ballooning debt back under control. Industrial output rose 1 percent last month after a record plunge immediately after the magnitude [...]
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April 10, 2011
Vietnam lacks solid seismic standards for high-rise construction and few guarantees for apartment buyers Residents stand outside an apartment building in Hanoi’s Linh Dam residential area after an earthquake on March 24. The quake has raised questions about the quality of apartment towers in the country. A 6.8 magnitude earthquake erupted along the border [...]
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April 4, 2011
This handout picture taken on April 1, 2011 shows workers spraying resin on the ground near the reactor buildings to protect the spread of radioactive substances at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (AFP PHOTO / HO / TEPCO VIA JIJI PRESS) Emergency crew at Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear plant used a color dye Monday to [...]
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March 29, 2011
A woman holding her child leaves her high-rise apartment in Hanoi as tremors from a Myanmar quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale shook the capital city on Thursday Vietnamese citizens fearful of earthquakes measuring 7.0 or more on the Richter scale or tsunamis hitting the country can breathe easy, a scientist says. This is [...]
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March 20, 2011
A woman is screened for radiation at a screening centre in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture on March 20, 2011 Japan restored power to a crippled nuclear reactor on Sunday in its race to avert disaster at a plant wrecked by an earthquake and tsunami that are estimated to have killed more than 15,000 people in one [...]
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