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BEIJING (AFP) Jan 12, 2004 A tsunami swept away a seaweed harvester carrying 21 men at a beach in east China's Jiangsu province, killing three of them and leaving six others missing, state media said Monday. Earthquake off Russia's far eastern coast MOSCOW (AFP) Jan 12, 2004 An earthquake measuring up to 5.4 on the Richter scale rocked Pacific waters off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula early Monday, local emergency officials said. |
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Father and son killed in Tajik avalanche DUSHANBE (AFP) Jan 12, 2004 A man and his teenaged son were killed in an avalanche in the mountains of the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, the Central Asian state's emergencies ministry said early Monday. Sharp heatwaves likely to be common for European summers: scientists GENEVA (AFP) Jan 11, 2004 Summer heatwaves in Europe, similar to the one that struck the continent last year causing the premature death of many elderly people and fuelling massive forest fires, are likely to be common before the end of the century, Swiss scientists predicted Sunday. Quake injures 300 in same northern Algerian region devastated last May ALGIERS (AFP) Jan 11, 2004 At least 300 people were injured in the earthquake that hit northern Algeria at the weekend, sowing panic in the region east of the capital Algiers, where more than 2,000 people died in a massive quake less than eight months ago, state radio reported Sunday. 'Miracle' Iran quake survivor loses fight for life TEHRAN (AFP) Jan 11, 2004 A 57-year-old man pulled out alive from the rubble of his home 13 days after a massive quake destroyed the southeastern Iranian city of Bam has died, the official news agency IRNA said Sunday. Tremor alert in west Afghanistan leaves locals out in the cold KABUL (AFP) Jan 11, 2004 Tens of thousands of residents of the western Afghan city of Herat spent the night in freezing conditions outside their homes because of an unofficial earthquake alert, a local security source said Sunday. 300 hurt as Algiers region hit by earthquake ALGIERS (AFP) Jan 11, 2004 Three hundred people were injured when an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit the region around the Algerian capital, state radio reported Sunday. |
Several hurt as Algiers region hit by earthquake ALGIERS (AFP) Jan 10, 2004 Five people were injured and 12 others were treated for shock after an earthquake reaching 5.7 on the Richter scale hit the region around the Algerian capital Saturday, APS news agency reported citing civil protection officials. Algiers region hit by earthquake ALGIERS (AFP) Jan 10, 2004 Residents of Algiers left their apartments in panic Saturday after an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit the Algerian capital's region, but no one was hurt and no damage was reported, officials said. Southwest Iran, on quake alert, hit by four more tremors TEHRAN (AFP) Jan 10, 2004 Four more mild earthquakes have jolted a major oil- and gas-producing area in southwest Iran, seismologists said Saturday, days after the region was put on maximum alert. Spanish foreign minister tours quake-hit Iranian city TEHRAN (AFP) Jan 10, 2004 Spain's Foreign Minister Ana Palacio Saturday became the latest foreign dignitary to tour quake-hit Bam, pledging long-term Spanish aid to the historic southeastern Iranian city. UN tells donors Bam quake reconstruction to cost up to one billion dollars GENEVA (AFP) Jan 09, 2004 The United Nations told international donors Friday that reconstruction after the deadly earthquake which levelled the southeastern Iranian city of Bam will cost up to one billion dollars. UN tells donors Bam quake reconstruction to cost up to one billion USD GENEVA (AFP) Jan 09, 2004 |
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