Predicted earthquake arrives - 16 years late
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The magnitude 6 earthquake that rocked central California on Tuesday may have been the most widely anticipated earthquake in history.
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An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hit western Japan on Tuesday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The 8:29 am (2329 GMT) quake measured 4 on the Japanese
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Two earthquakes, measuring 6.6 and 4.9 on the Richter scale, have rocked the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido within a space of 19 minutes,  but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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Sydney - The massive earthquake that unleashed deadly tidal waves across southeast Asia may have been triggered by a smaller quake last week off Australia&#39;s island state of Tasmania, a seismologist said on Monday.
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Geologists describe Sunday&#39;s powerful earthquake in the Indian Ocean as a once-in-a-generation event. The US Geological Survey says the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that triggered the devastating
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Tokyo, Oct. 24 (NNN): At least 17 people were killed and up to 1,000 injured in a series of earthquakes and aftershocks which shook northern Japan for 12 hours, according to reports here on Sunday afternoon.
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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook an Indonesian island having killed 16 and injuring dozens. The information was received from the official report of the government of the country.
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At 6:58 am on Sunday (7:58 pm Saturday, our time) an earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, in water about 18 miles deep just 155 miles off the west coast of Sumatra.
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Deep rumblings many kilometers (miles) below the San Andreas fault in California could offer a way to predict earthquakes, according to US scientists.
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Strong aftershocks from the  Indonesian earthquake will be felt for "weeks and months" but  more killer-magnitude tremblers and deadly tsunamis were  unlikely, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey said  on Wednesday.
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The quake hit late Sunday night, and Japan&#39;s Meteorological Agency measured it at 7.3 on the open-ended Richter Scale. The quake was centered more than 100 kilometers off the prefecture of Kochi and about 10 kilometers under the seabed.
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MEULABOH, Indonesia -- Rudi Kurniawan remembered the last time he heard his father's voice. It was 10 minutes after the earthquake shook Kurniawan's second-floor apartment in the city of Banda Aceh on the northwestern tip of Sumatra on Dec. 26. His father called on the telephone from his home in Meulaboh, 120 miles to the southwest.
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A strong earthquake that scientists had expected since the 1980s finally happened Tuesday near Parkfield, rocking Central California along a heavily monitored part of the San Andreas fault.
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The warning system worked perfectly. From sensors far offshore, Japanese meteorologists detected a tsunami headed toward the southern island of Ishigaki in March 2002 and quickly warned residents of the possible danger.
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[World News]: Canberra, Dec 24 : The world&#39;s most powerful earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter Scale was registered Friday near the Macquarie Island off Australia.
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Japanese mobile telephone users may soon be warned of an earthquake in their area before it even strikes.
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LONDON: A scientist looking to pinpoint the next big earthquake has warned the US east coast could be destroyed by a tsunami unleashed by the collapse of a volcanic island in the eastern Atlantic.