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First Night: Nation, Olivier, NT
Mau :: India | about 2 hours ago
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With a good deal of theatrical fare designed for family consumption at Christmas, you can confidently check your brains in at the cloakroom and sit back expecting a certain end-of-term laxity on the artistic front. But not at the National Theatre where,...
Tags: India, Mau, Royal National Theatre, Melly Still, Poisonous plants, 41 Daphne, Terry Pratchett, Daphne, Tsunami, Thymelaeaceae, Year of birth missing
6.8-magnitude quake hits Tonga—USGS
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | about 13 hours ago
Credibility A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 hit off the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said. The earthquake struck at 1:47 am (1247 GMT Tuesday), Tongan officials said, but there were no reports of damage or injuries,...
Tags: Tongan, Pacific County, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, South Pacific, pacific island, island nation, Nuku'alofa, earthquake struck, Tonga, Environment, Disaster Accident, Earthquake, Tsunami, Earthquake engineering, American Samoa, Tongan mythology, Niuatoputapu, Richter magnitude scale, Nukuￊﾻalofa, Weather, Physical oceanography, Historic tsunamis, Tonga earthquake, Seismology, Blizzards, Canada, Samoa earthquake, Tsunamis, Polynesia, Ice storms, Renewable-energy economy
Tsunami victims attack Rudd
Apia :: Samoa | about 24 hours ago
Credibility Seabreeze Resort, on Samoa's devastated southern coast, was hit with the full force of the September 29 waves, leaving owners Chris and Wendy Booth with crumpled luxury villas and a pile of rubble. The couple, originally from the Sunshine Coast, have...
Tags: Samoa, Apia, Samoa earthquake, Polynesia, Tsunami, Earthquake engineering, Hazard prevention, Physical oceanography
Safe to build near coastal areas
Lami :: Fiji Islands | 1 day ago
Credibility Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre's geophysicist Dr Gerard Fryer told the four-day disaster management workshop at the Novotel in Lami last week last week that heeding warnings was very important as shown by the quick movement of Samoan coastal dwellers....
Tags: Dr Gerard Fryer, Lami, higher ground, Fiji Islands, Disaster, Emergency, Aid, Emergency management, Development, Occupational safety and health, Disaster Accident, Environment, Tsunami warning system, Earthquake, Indian Ocean earthquake, Earthquake engineering, Earthquakes, Tsunami, Natural hazards, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Tonga, Fryer, Warning systems, Physical oceanography
New website gives tips on how to prepare for and survive a tsunami
Mumbai :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility US national committee on tsunami warning and preparedness. "But people educated about tsunami warning signs can save their own lives and the lives of others," he added. A tsunami can quickly engulf vulnerable coastal regions resulting in widespread destruction...
Tags: web sites, warning signs, ocean tsunamis, India, Mumbai, Warning systems, Water waves, Indian Ocean earthquake, Earthquake, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Technology Internet, Tsunami, Earthquake engineering, Physical oceanography, Environment, Disaster Accident
Body found in Whakatane (Newstalk ZB)
Whakatane :: New Zealand | 3 days ago
Credibility The Oxford Dictionary defines racism as "1. Belief in the superiority of a particular race; prejudice based on this...Antagonism towards people of other races."Since his expletive laced email tirade Hone Harawira has been called many... Ellie Evans November...
Tags: New Zealand, Whakatane, Leader peptidase A, Lepa, Tsunami, Diggers, Hone Harawira, Taser, Expletive
Plan to improve disaster warnings
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, Dr Gerard Fryer, said it was important that people took warnings seriously. "In 1953 there was an earthquake which triggered a landslide," he said. He said for an event such as the one in 1953, warning...
Tags: Honolulu, Tsunami warning system, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Tsunami, Warning systems, Flood, Disaster Accident, Environment
Magnitude 5 earthquake rocks Yogyakarta, Klaten
Yogyakarta :: Indonesia | 5 days ago
Credibility The epicenter of the quake was 107 southwest Wonosari of Yogyakarta and was 23 kilometer beneath the earth, tempointeraktif.com has reported. Resident Febrianti Ika Dewi said that the tremor was quitely felt in her office in Klaten. “The tremor lasted...
Tags: Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tsunami, Earthquake engineering, Klaten Regency, Earthquake, Disaster Accident, Environment, Central Java, Mount Slamet, Provinces of Indonesia, Jakarta, Law Crime
Town wants disaster plan
Nadi :: Fiji Islands | 6 days ago
Credibility The town's special administrator, Aisea Tuidraki, said since there was an international airport in Nadi, it was only natural that the town, municipal council and the people be prepared for the worst. Mr Tuidraki said they needed to know how capable they...
Tags: Fiji Islands, Nadi, Disasters, Natural disaster, Earthquake, Tsunami, Emergency management, Technology Internet, Earthquake engineering, Flood, Natural hazards, Disaster Accident, Nadi F.C., Disaster, Sigatoka, Nadroga-Navosa, Nadi Fiji, Environment
Aussies still helping out in Tonga
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | 6 days ago
Credibility Tobruk has been anchored off the island of Niuatoputapu since earlier today, offloading more than 500 tonnes of much needed equipment and supplies. It is the second leg of its aid mission, having already stopped off in Samoa, which lost 177 people to...
Tags: Tongan, HMAS Tobruk, Tonga, Nuku'alofa, American Samoa, Environment, Tongan mythology, Niuatoputapu, Tsunami, Disaster Accident
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