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Norway's biggest quake ever in Arctic archipelago

by Staff Writers
 Oslo (AFP) Feb 21, 2008
 Norway's biggest ever earthquake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, shook the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard early Thursday, a Norwegian seismology institute said.

No one was injured and no damage was reported after the earthquake struck about 140 kilometres (87 miles) souteast of Lonyearbyen, the main town in the archipelago that is home to some 2,300 people.

"The earthquake happened at sea ... and was powerfully felt in Longyearbyen. This is the biggest earthquake ever registered in Norwegian territory," the Norsar research institute said in a statement.

"Numerous after-shocks have been registered, and these will keep coming," the statement said.

Longyearbyen, one of the world's most northerly towns, is home to a new "doomsday vault" of samples of the most important seeds on Earth aimed at providing mankind with a reserve in the event of a global catastrophe.

The vault is set to be inaugurated next Tuesday by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Nobel Peace Prize winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.

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