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An usually harsh winter is expected in the mountains of Sichuan, where millions of quake victims live in temporary housing that gives little protection against cold, rain and snow, provincial officials said on Friday. The 7.9 magnitude quake, which hit...
Tags: earthquake, China, Sichuan Province, warning, sichuan provinces, quake victims, china quake, Wei Hong, vice governor, quake rebuilding
Indonesiaâs meteorology agency briefly issued a tsunami alert following the quake, but the warning was lifted later. Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministryâs crisis centre, said in a text message more than 1,000 buildings had been damaged in two...
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Philippines The Philippine Institute on Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Monday lifted the tsunami alert it issued earlier covering southern Philippine provinces following the magnitude-7.6 earthquake that rocked Indonesia. In its 4 a.m. bulletin,...
Tags: tsunami, warning, earthquake, Philippine Institute on Volcanology, Davao Oriental, Indonesia
Indonesia issued a tsunami warning shortly after midnight Sunday after a powerful earthquake struck off the country's north Sulawesi province, Indonesian seismologists said. The National Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said the quake measuring...
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Singapore Telecommunications said yesterday net profit fell 12.1 percent for the second quarter as regional income was hit by a strong local currency and rollout costs for the launch of Apple's iPhone. For the three months to September, net profit came...
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Indonesia launched a high-tech tsunami warning system Tuesday in a bid to prevent a repeat of tragedies like the 2004 Asian tsunami that killed around 170,000 people in the archipelago nation. The 1.4 trillion rupiah (130.2 million dollar) system will...
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Indonesia on Tuesday launched a sophisticated tsunami early warning system nationwide, which can dissipate the threat of possible tsunami in five minutes, Indonesian president said here. Indonesia, which was devastated by tsunami in 2004 in Aceh and...
Tags: tsunami, indonesia, warning, earthquake, Jakarta Post, Jakarta Mon, Indonesian, BMG
Eight people were missing and two others seriously injured after a landslide and floods hit West Sumatra province since Friday night, local disaster management agency said Saturday. Consecutive days of heavy rains had caused a landslide at the upstream...
Tags: earthquake, tsunami, warning, Jakarta Post, Indonesia
Member States will be required to make decisions and take preliminary steps short of alerting the public, thus testing current warning systems and helping to identify operational strengths and weaknesses in each country. According to the scenario, a powerful...
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Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Sunday, the geophysics agency said. There were no immediate reports of damage and officials said no tsunami warning had been issued. Indonesian officials said the quake struck at 4.08pm Singapore time, 91 kilometres (56...
Tags: indonesia, earthquake, tsunami, warning, North Sulawesi, Indonesian, immediate reports