Bulgaria, Greece Rocked by Quakes ... read
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Politics: 31 January 2005, Monday. A light earthquake was registered in Bulgaria around midnight, the Seismological Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Science reported.
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Southern Europe sizzled under a heat wave Tuesday, with temperatures hitting triple digits for a seventh day in Romania, blazes forcing the evacuation of tourists in Croatia and Italy, and wildfires in Macedonia and Greece exploding shells from long-ago wars. At least 35 heat-related deaths were reported.
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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.1, the year&#39;s strongest, shook the ocean floor today between Australia and Antarctica.
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Thousands of European tourists were begining their day with breakfast or by sunning themselves on Thailand&#39;s white sand beaches when massive waves triggered by an earthquake, swept people, bungalows, boats and cars out to sea.
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The rest of the world made a collective shudder on July 22 when Bulgaria decided to close 250 churches and 50 police raided a church in Sofia.
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A strong earthquake rocked the Greek capital Athens on Sunday, a Reuters witness said.
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A strong earthquake rattled southern Greece early Sunday and was felt in the capital, Athens. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, police said.
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An extremely powerful earthquake struck the ocean floor between Australia and Antarctica early Friday, causing buildings to shake hundreds of miles away on the island of Tasmania, authorities said. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
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From hardest-hit Sri Lanka to resort islands in Thailand, holidaymakers from Britain described the destruction caused when tidal waves triggered by a powerful earthquake off Indonesia hit their resorts, in messages to radio, television stations and news agencies back home.
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Tour operators throughout Europe on Monday canceled trips to Asian vacation destinations devastated by massive tidal waves from the huge earthquake in the Indian Ocean.
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A huge earthquake under the Indian Ocean has unleashed tidal waves killing at least 150 people in Sri Lanka, sent residents rushing in panic to high ground in Indonesia, and sent walls of water crashing into the Indian city of Chennai and the Thai tourist
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A strong earthquake shook parts of Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands on Sunday, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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Southeastern Europe baked under soaring temperatures Friday, with nearly 30 deaths across the region blamed on the year's first major heat wave. Electricity supplies, particularly in Greece and Albania, were strained as air conditioning use spiked.
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A strong earthquake struck southern Greece just after midday Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its Web site.
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A powerful earthquake rocked large parts of Southeast Asia on Sunday. The quake caused dozens of small buildings to collapse and triggered tidal waves in northwestern Indonesia, witnesses and officials said.
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Extreme weather hit Europe Saturday as the death toll from a heat wave in Romania, Austria and Bulgaria rose to 18 and hundreds faced another night of misery in flood-drenched England.
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Winter storms and avalanches across Europe killed at least six people and left three missing, and authorities in Bulgaria declared a state of emergency Friday.