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  • Thousands flee tourism hotspot in face of continued quakes

    Thousands flee tourism hotspot in face of continued quakes

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    A state of emergency has been declared on Greece’s Santorini island after hundreds of undersea earthquakes have shaken the resort hotpot for nearly a week. The emergency declaration on Friday (AEDT) followed a magnitude 5.2 tremor — the most powerful recorded since activity started on January 31. Thousands of tourists and residents have fled the…

  • Search is on for two Australians missing since deadly Taiwanese earthquake

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    Two other foreigners remain unaccounted for – one Canadian and one Indian. As recovery efforts continued on Thursday, a helicopter plucked to safety six people stranded in a mining area as rescue workers reached 400 people cut off in a hotel in a mountainous national park by air, confirming all are safe. Hundreds of aftershocks…

  • Dozens missing after huge earthquake rocks Taiwan

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    Some buildings tilted at precarious angles in the mountainous, sparsely populated county of Hualien, near the epicentre of the 7.2 magnitude quake, which struck just offshore about 8am on Wednesday and triggered massive landslides. Linda Chen, 48, said her apartment in downtown Hualien city had been so badly damaged in an earlier earthquake in 2018…

  • Four dead as big quake rocks Taiwan; tsunami alerts in Japan and Philippines

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    Taiwan’s government said four people had died in the mountainous, sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien where the epicentre was, with more than 50 injured. At least 26 buildings have collapsed, more than half in Hualien, with about 20 people trapped and rescue work ongoing, it said. Taiwan’s fire department reported the casualties as television…

  • Earthquake jolts SA town

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    The earthquake occurred just after 10.33pm on Monday, with the epicentre around 11km northeast of Jamestown. An aftershock occurred half an hour later only 3km east of the town. According to Geoscience Australia, 127 people reported that they felt the initial earthquake, including three people in metropolitan Adelaide. Around 50 people around Jamestown also reported…

  • Race against time to find Japan earthquake survivors

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    “We must continue putting all of our efforts into rescuing people, even beyond 72 hours after the disaster,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said at a press conference on Thursday. Survival rates drop off 72 hours after an earthquake, according to emergency responders. So far 156 people have been rescued, but at least 79 others…

  • Deaths after big quake rocks Japan

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    The quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck in the middle of the afternoon on Monday, prompting residents in some coastal areas to flee to higher ground as tsunami waves about one metre high hit Japan’s western seaboard. Some 1000 army personnel have been dispatched to the worst-hit area in the country’s relatively remote…

  • Bali and Lombok shaken by earthquake

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    The earthquake struck deep in the sea north of Bali and Lombok islands in Indonesia, sending residents and tourists running out of buildings. The quake’s epicentre early on Tuesday was 203km north of Mataram, Indonesia, and very deep at 516km below the Earth’s surface, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The US Geological Survey said…

  • Biggest quake for years hits Flinders Ranges

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    The earthquake occurred at 9.53am today just south of Yunta, 275km northeast of Adelaide in the remote Flinders Ranges. A 2.6 magnitude aftershock was recorded in the same area at 10.43am. Geoscience Australia said the 4.7 magnitude quake is the largest to be recorded in South Australia since 2013 when a 5.4 magnitude tremor shook…

  • Turkey quake bill $50 billion and rising

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    The bank estimates that the earthquakes would also shave at least half a percentage point off Turkey’s forecast gross domestic product growth of 3.5 per cent to four per cent in 2023, Humberto Lopez, World Bank country director for Turkey, told reporters. The situation in Syria, which was also affected by the quakes, was “really…