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Water pipe bridge collapses in Japan: people forced to line up for supplies

A water pipe bridge over the Kinokawa River in Japan collapsed on October 3. One day after the collapse, the water supply continued to be cut off in a large area in this west Japan city and the city...

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Magnitude 6.1 quake in Tokyo: blackouts but no tsunami warning

No reports of major damage, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said, after the strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1, which jolted Tokyo late on Thursday, October 7th, 2021. The quake ca...

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Australia: Magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes near Melbourne

A 5.9 magnitude quake hit near Mansfield in the state of Victoria in southern Australia on Wednesday September 22th at 2:15 a.m local time, as the Geoscience Australia, reported. The temblor was so...

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5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Crete island in Greece

On Monday September 27th, many buildings on the island of Crete, Greece were damaged and some reduced to piles of rubble from an 5.8-magnitude earthquake and strong aftershocks. According to the Athe...

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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck southwest China

An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck southwest China’s Sichuan province on Thursday September 16th, as reported by state media. The quake killed at least three people and injured dozens while homes...

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Three fatalities in an apartment building collapse in Egypt

One more collapse in just two months occurred on Wednesday in Egypt, in the city of Shoubra el-Khaima in Qalyubia province. It was a four­-storey building that was used as the headquarter of a law fi...

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M7.0 earthquake in southwest Mexico

An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck southwest Mexico. According to the United States Geological Survey the quake hit 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) east-northeast of Los Órganos de San Agustín, about eig...

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Category 4 hurricane Ida hit Louisiana: neighborhoods left underwater

Category 4 hurricane Ida hit southeastern Louisiana's Port Fourchon at a around 1 p.m. August 29th and slowly scraped across the state, delivering catastrophic winds and torrential rain to the same...

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Concrete roof collapse of industrial building in Singapore

On Sunday 22th of August at about 9:20 am, a concrete roof of an industrial building at 3013 Bedok Park E Bedok, partially collapsed. After the collapse, a team from the Singapore Civil Defence Force...

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Seismometers providing crucial data on Haiti’s earthquake

After the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010 which cost the lives of thousands of people, scientists develop a network of low cost seismometers. These seismometers are installed in places where...

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