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TEHRAN (AFP) Jan 15, 2004 An earthquake measuring five on the Richter scale has hit the southern Iranian province of Fars, damaging eight villages but causing no loss of life or injuries, the state news agency IRNA reported Thursday. Australian wine grape production jumps after drought SYDNEY (AFP) Jan 15, 2004 Australian wine grape production is expected to jump 28 percent in the year to July as vineyards recover from the effects of severe drought, the government's commodities forecaster said Thursday. |
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5.1 earthquake shakes central Mexico MEXICO CITY (AFP) Jan 13, 2004 An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the open ended Richter scale shook central Mexico, including the capital, on Tuesday, the National Seismological Service said. Red Cross provides psychlogical support to Iran quake victims GENEVA (AFP) Jan 13, 2004 More than 15,000 survivors of the earthquake which devastated the southeastern city of Bam will be able beginning next week to receive psychological counseling organized by the International Red Cross. UN launches appeal to help farmers in Iran after quake ROME (AFP) Jan 13, 2004 The UN Food and Agriculture Organisationlaunched an appeal Tuesday for 2.5 million dollars to rebuild the agricultural sector around the town of Bam in southeast Iran, where 30,000 people died in an earthquake last month. Undersea earthquake measuring 5.0 jolts Taiwan TAIPEI (AFP) Jan 13, 2004 An undersea earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted eastern Taiwan Tuesday, seismologists said. Three killed as tsunami sweeps away 21 men in east China 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. |
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. |
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