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Green Earthquake alert in Norway on 06/07/2012 02:48 UTC
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This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

  • Earthquake magnitude 4.9M and depth 9.9km
  • on 06/07/2012 02:48 UTC
  • 110000 people within 100km

References

Known identifiers for this event: usb000azfa (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 383 | About casualties: 29 | Last hour: 0

Japanese reactor back to full power after nuke shutdown
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:10:00 +0200   dailytimesPK (en)

TOKYO: A nuclear reactor in western Japan began full operations Monday, the first restart since the country shut down its atomic stations in the wake of last year’s crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Kansai Electric Power Co (KEPCO), operator of the Oi power plant in the nation’s industrial....

People and organisations: American Electric Power Co  Fukushima Daiichi  Tokyo Electric Power  Tokyo Electric Power  Kansai Electric  Kansai Electric  Yoshihiko Noda 

01:39 Asit miktarı, mercan kayalıklarını tehdit ediyor
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:20:00 +0200   netgazete (tr)

Okyanuslardaki asit miktarının, ''denizin osteoporozu'' gibi etki ederek, mercan kayalıklarını tehdit ettiği bildirildi. Uzmanlar, okyanuslarda artan asit seviyesinin mercan kayalıkları için büyük tehdit oluşturduğunu, bu sorunun gıda güvenliğinden turizm sektörüne kadar birçok alanı etkilediğini ve....

People and organisations: Jane Lubchenco 

Aid to riot-hit shrines against statute: Gujarat
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:02:00 +0200   indiatimes (en)

The Narendra Modi government on Monday said compensation to religious structures damaged in the 2002 riots would be against the tenets of secular governance and justified its stand in the Supreme Court by saying it had given no grant for repair of such structures damaged by the 2001 earthquake.

People and organisations: Supreme Court  Narendra Modi 

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