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Alaska residents try to return to normalcy after earthquake rocks region
CNN   03 December 2018   USA   Alaska, Anchorage  
People walk along a road in Wasilla after Friday's earthquake.
<p>The 7.0-magnitude earthquake sent residents scurrying for cover when it hit at about 8:30 a.m. Friday. The quake was centered 10 miles northeast of Anchorage.<br />The majority of the aftershocks were of a magnitude 2.5 or weaker, meaning they weren't likely ...
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Kaikoura: 'Most complex quake ever studied'
BBC NEWS   24 March 2017   New Zealand   Oceania  
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<p>The big earthquake that struck New Zealand last year may have been the most complex ever, say scientists.<br>November's Magnitude 7.8 event ruptured a near-200km-long swathe of territory, shifting parts of NZ's South Island 5m closer to North Island.<br>Whole ...
Powerful Philippines earthquake kills at least eight, more than 120 injured
abc.net.au   12 February 2017   Philippines   Asia  
A car destroyed during a 6.7 magnitude earthquake on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao. (Twitter: Maria Shayla)
<p>At least eight people were killed and more than 120 injured when a powerful earthquake struck in the southern Philippines, officials say, damaging buildings and an airport and knocking out power.</p> <p>The late Friday quake with a magnitude of 6.5 roused ...
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Magnitude 5.3 quake jolts Turkey, causes minor damage
Fox News   06 February 2017   Turkey   Asia  
Earthquake epicentre (source: http://www.emsc-csem.org)
<p>Turkey's seismology center says a 5.3-magnitude earthquake, centered beneath the Aegean sea, shook the Turkish coast. The state-run news agency said the quake damaged a number of houses in five villages and at least four people were injured.</p><p>The earthquake ...
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M=3.5 earthquake strikes near creeping San Andreas and Calaveras Faults
temblor.net   01 February 2017   United States   Americas  
The San Andreas Fault cuts through DeRose Winery in Hollister, CA. The resulting creep (steady slip) has progressively offset this culvert over the past 30 years. (Photo from geologycafe.com)
<p>At 9:35 p.m. local time last night (January 30), a small M=3.5 earthquake shook the city of Hollister, CA, and was felt as far away as Santa Cruz and Monterey. According to the USGS ShakeMap, only light shaking was felt, and around 300 people recorded feeling ...
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Italy earthquakes: Many feared dead in hotel buried by avalanche
The Independent   19 January 2017   Italy   Europe  
A 5.3 earthquake hit Central Italy on 18 January 2017 (USGS)
<p>Thirty people are missing after an avalanche buried a small hotel in the mountains of central Italy after a series of earthquakes, authorities say.</p> <p>Italian media said the avalanche covered the three-storey hotel in Abruzzo, an earthquake-hit zone ...
Italy earthquake: Rome schools and metro evacuated as four earthquakes strike
The Independent   18 January 2017   Italy   Europe  
A 5.3 earthquake was the first to hit (USGS)
<p>Four earthquakes have struck Italy, shaking buildings in Rome and Florence just months after almost 300 people were killed in one of the worst disasters in living memory.</p> <p>Residents of the capital described their homes and offices shaking when the ...
Frantic search for four missing miners in Poland after cave-in
The Independent.ie   30 November 2016   Poland   Europe  
A view of the entrance to the Rudna copper mine in Poland (AP)
<p>Rescue workers are using bare hands in a desperate attempt to save four missing miners at a Polish copper mine that was hit by a tremor and a cave-in.</p> <p>Four other miners were killed in the tragedy, the mine's director said.</p> <p>The tremor occurred ...
Monday's earthquake lifted seabed around Kaikoura 'by at least a metre', scientists confirm
The New Daily   18 November 2016   New Zealand   Oceania  
Before (March 2016)/After (Nov 2016) Worldview 2 images of Waipapa Bay (c) NextView. Same location as helicopter pic (source: Ryan Gold-Twitter)
<p>This week’s New Zealand earthquake has lifted the seabed around Kaikoura by at least 1m, scientists have told NZ media.</p><p>Among the pictures that have emerged from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake early on Monday, some of the most striking have been those ...