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5.5-magnitude quake strikes off Japan’s Iwate, no tsunami warning issued
TOKYO: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 on Saturday struck off Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan, reported Xinhua news agency according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 4.19 pm local time, with its epicentre at
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Volcanic mountain ‘anak krakatau’ erupted once again
JAKARTA: Volcanic mountain ‘Anak Krakatau’ which erupted in 2018 and caused a tsunami which took hundreds of lives, erupted once again last night. According to a statement from the Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation (PVMBG), the 9.58pm
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Moderate earthquake hits Indonesia, no Tsunami threat to Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: A moderate earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale was reported to have occurred in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, at 5.36am today. According to a Malaysian Meteorological Department statement, the quake was centred at 181KM west of Jayapura, Indonesia,
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Tsunami warnings after magnitude 7.8 quake off Russia’s Kuril islands
U.S. authorities put out tsunami warnings on Wednesday after an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off Russia’s Kuril Islands, but meteorological officials in Japan issued no alerts, although they said there might be slight tidal changes. The U.S. National Oceanic
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Strong earthquake hits south Bali, no tsunami threat to Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.3 on the Richter scale, occurred near South of Bali, Indonesia at 1.45am. Malaysian Meteorological Department, in a statement, said that the epicentre of the quake was located 302 kilometres (km) south from
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Sri Lanka’s ‘Foundation of Goodness’ turns around a village decimated by tsunami
When Kushil Gunasekera returned to Seenigama in Sri Lanka’s Galle district days after it was wiped out by a massive tsunami on Dec 26, 2004, he got to work. Houses had collapsed, bodies floated in the sea water that had
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Hundreds of Thai tsunami victims yet to be identified, 15 years on
Fifteen years after the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 230,000 people on Boxing Day, 2004, a cargo container at a police station in southern Thailand bears witness to the hundreds of victims whose remains were never identified. Inside are
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