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01 Apr 2011 15:26

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World: Earthquake in Greece sends tremors across the region

  • greece The earthquake in Crete today is much more severe than usual, but Greece is a seismic hot-bed; they have thousands of small quakes per year.
  • turkey Reports from Anatolia, a Turkish news outlet, indicate that the earthquake was felt all the way to the Turkish resort towns of Bodrom, Mamaris and Fethiye.
  • egyptThe earthquake also caused shakes all the way to Cairo, as its been reported that some buildings within the Egyptian capitol were rattled by tremors. source

01 Oct 2009 10:09

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World: Early warning system? More like late warning in Samoa’s case

  • 15 minutes – the time it takes scientists to properly analyze the data from an earthquake
  • 18 minutes for the first early warning to be made; by that time, waves had already hit Samoa source