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Magnitude 5.0 earthquake rattles Puerto Rico causing damage to the south of the island - as U.S. territory suffers 11th aftershock in last 30 days
Mail Online   04 February 2020   Puerto Rico  
A magnitude 5 earthquake on Tuesday struck Puerto Rico, where people are still on edge from a series of quakes after last month's deadly event
<p>A magnitude 5.0 aftershock rattled southern Puerto Rico on Tuesday, causing some cracks but no reported injuries in a region that has been shaken by continuing quakes for more than a month.<br />Officials in the southwest coastal town of Guayanilla reported ...
Albania earthquake: Fresh tremors as rescue effort intensifies
BBC NEWS   27 November 2019   Albania   Tirana  
Firefighters extracted this injured man from the rubble in Thumane
<p>Rescuers are scrambling to find survivors under the rubble of buildings in Albania, where a strong earthquake has killed 26 people and injured 650.<br />The magnitude-6.4 tremor struck 34km (21 miles) north-west of the capital, Tirana, as people slept in ...
Albania earthquake: at least nine dead and hundreds injured
The Guardian   26 November 2019   Albania   Tirana  
A damaged building in Thumanë. Photograph: Florion Goga/Reuters
<p>At least nine people have died and 600 people have been injured after a powerful earthquake hit Albania in the early hours of Tuesday, causing damage along the country&rsquo;s Adriatic coastline and in the capital, Tirana. Several buildings collapsed, burying ...
M=5.2 southern California quake triggered a profusion of aftershocks on ‘bookshelf faults’ that link the active strands of the San Jacinto fault zone
Temlor.net   10 June 2016   USA   S. California  
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<p>Today&rsquo;s quake struck along the central San Jacinto fault, a major element of the southern San Andreas system with its own history of large and frequent quakes, and so at high risk of future events. But the aftershocks do not line up along the right-lateral ...
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Dry landslide strikes Annapurna region
Katmandu Post   24 February 2016   Nepal   Myagdi district  
A file photo of the Annapurna mountain range which was hit by a massive dry landslide
<p>Feb 24, 2016- Narchyang, Dana, Bhurung-Tatopani, Ghar and Histan villages in Myagdi district were covered in thick plumes of dust following Sunday&rsquo;s night&rsquo;s massive dry landslide, which was triggered by an aftershock. A magnitude 5.5 aftershock ...
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