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Earthquake warning for Turkey


Al-Jazeera
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:02 UTC
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© AFPAn 8.8 earthquake in Chile last week killed at least 800 people and left many more homeless
A report released by the Turkish chamber of civil engineers has said that up to 150,000 people could be killed, and 300,000 buildings destroyed in an earthquake predicted to hit the city of Istanbul in the next 30 years.

The report, which was sent to parliament on Monday, reveals over half of construction projects approved by engineers of inspection companies are not earthquake proof.

The city boundary lies just 20 kilometres from a major fault line, leaving the sprawling metropolis of Istanbul at high risk of a major earthquake.

The results came after IMO, the engineering body that produced the report, inspected nine per cent of the 1,031 projects supposedly made earthquake-proof by inspection companies in 2008.

Cemal Gökçe, chairman of the Istanbul IMO branch, said inspection certificates can be authorised by any engineer with an engineering diploma, regardless of their area of expertise.
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Bizarro Earth

Vanuatu - Earthquake Magnitude 6.4


US Geological Survey
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:46 UTC
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Date-Time:
Thursday, March 04, 2010 at 14:02:30 UTC

Friday, March 05, 2010 at 01:02:30 AM at epicenter

Location:
13.616°S, 167.135°E

Depth:
200.2 km (124.4 miles)

Distances:
210 km (130 miles) N of Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

350 km (215 miles) SSE of Lata, Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Isl.

475 km (295 miles) NNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu

2130 km (1320 miles) NE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia
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12-year-old girl saved Chilean islanders from tsunami


Press TV
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:35 UTC
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A 12-year old girl has saved almost the entire population of Robinson Crusoe Island off the coast of Chile from a strong tsunami.

The inhabitants of the small island were asleep as a massive tsunami, initiated by the February 27 earthquake, was about to reach the coast.

According to reports in the Chilean media, Martina Maturana felt the first slight tremors whilst everyone was asleep on Robinson Crusoe Island, in the Archipelago of Juan Fernandez, 700 kilometers off the country's coast.

She warned her policeman father about what she felt. In a contact with relatives in Valparaiso in central Chile, they found out that a massive earthquake had struck the country just minutes before.
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Taiwan in chaos after strong quake


Press TV
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:31 UTC
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Taiwan's National Fire Agency says at least 12 people have been injured after a strong earthquake jolted the southern part of the country.

The 6.4-magnitude quake shook Kaohsiung County early Thursday, but no tsunami alert was issued.

The incident disrupted transport and also caused at least one large fire.

Rail service in southern and central Taiwan was suspended, as was the state-of-the-art subway system in Kaohsiung city, Taiwan's second largest.

In Tainan, a fire broke out in a textile factory shortly after the quake hit, sending huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the air.

Power outages struck in the capital city of Taipei and at least one county to the south.
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Video footage of Chile quake


RIA Novosti
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:05 UTC
Security camera footage captured the moment a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck in a penitentiary in the Chilean capital of Santiago last Saturday. Inmates were seen quickly gathering in the prison's courtyard seconds after the shaking began.





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Bizarro Earth

Taiwan: Earthquake Magnitude 6.4

Jonathan Standing
Reuters
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:07 UTC
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Taipei - An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 shook Taiwan and stopped transport early Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage, officials said.

The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 8:18 am (0018 GMT), was in mountains around the southern city of Kaohsiung at a depth of 5 km (3 miles), the Central Weather Bureau said.

Taiwan still uses the Richter scale to measure earthquake intensity. The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake's magnitude at 6.4, revised from an initial 6.5, and put the depth at 35 km (22 miles).

The quake was felt in the capital Taipei, where buildings shook for several minutes. Services on the southern half of Taiwan's high-speed rail linking Taipei with the south were stopped.

Earthquakes occur frequently in Taiwan, which lies on a seismically active stretch of the Pacific basin.

One of Taiwan's worst-recorded quakes occurred in September 1999. Measuring 7.6, it killed more than 2,400 people and destroyed or damaged 50,000 buildings.
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A Blizzard Of Lies From Al Gore


Investors Business Daily
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:41 UTC
Climate Fraud: Al Gore resurfaces in an op-ed to say that nobody's perfect, everybody makes mistakes and climate change is still real. And he has some oceanfront property in the Himalayas to sell you.

If hyperbole and chutzpah had a child, it would be the opening paragraph of Gore's op-ed in Sunday's New York Times. Gore surfaced from the global warming witness-protection program to opine that despite admissions of error and evidence of fraud by various agencies, we still face "an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."

Perhaps he's trying to protect his investments as he knows them, for he is heavily involved in enterprises that deal with carbon offsets and green technology. If the case for climate change is shown to be demonstrably false, a lot of his green evaporates like moisture from the ocean.

Comment: The Climate Change scam is steadily unravelling, at long last. You can see the progress being made when a business publication such as Business Investors Daily has seen through the scam, is alerting its business readers to the scam and is calling out Al Gore, the High Priest of the movement, on his lies.

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Huge Garbage Patch Found in Atlantic Too

Richard A. Lovett
National Geographic News
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:59 UTC
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© Peter Cade, Getty ImagesDrums and household debris litter a beach in Fuerteventura, Grand Canary Island (file photo).
Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean - a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say.

"Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

"But this issue has essentially been ignored in the Atlantic."
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UK: Mystery fish found on Isle of Mull beach


STV News
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:42 UTC
Mull Dealfish
A couple discovered the strange looking fish - which was later identified as a Dealfish.
A mysterious fish washed ashore on the Isle of Mull sparked detective work by conservationists.

A couple on holiday from England reported the unusual specimen to the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust on the isle.

The Richardsons had found the fish washed ashore near the hamlet of Ulva Ferry on the west coast of Mull.
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Bizarro Earth

Killer 26 foot Wave Kills Two On Cruise Liner Off French Coast


Sky News
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:21 UTC
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© AP Photo/Manu FernandezWorkers clean up broken windows on the Cypriot-owned Louis Majesty cruise ship at Barcelona's port, Spain, on Thursday, March 4, 2010. Waves of up to 26 feet (8 meters) high smashed into the Mediterranean cruise ship flooding people's cabins and breaking windows in an ordeal that claimed two lives. The ship was carrying 1,350 passengers and 580 crew.
Two cruise-ship passengers have been killed after a 26ft wave smashed into the ship off the coast of France.

A Greek coast guard statement says another six people suffered light injuries on board the Cypriot-owned Louis Majesty.

It says the accident occurred near the French Mediterranean port of Marseilles as the ship was sailing from Barcelona to Genoa in Italy with 1,350 passengers and 580 crew.

Comment: Return of the freak waves?

Freak wave 'hot spots' identified
US: Freak Waves Swamp Maine's Boothbay Harbor, Baffling Experts
New theory (and old equations) may explain causes of ship-sinking freak waves
Freak waves may be real cause of many ship sinkings

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