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Earthquake - 7.2M - E. RUSSIA-N.E. CHINA BDR REG
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| June 28, 2002
Posted on 06/28/2002 2:22:39 PM PDT by HAL9000
DATE-(UTC)-TIME LAT LON DEP MAG Q COMMENTS
yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss deg. deg. km
02/06/28 17:19:30 43.80N 130.65E 566.2 7.2M A E. RUSSIA-N.E. CHINA BDR REG.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; earthquake; russia
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:22:39 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Urgent: Earthquake Jolts Northeast China
BEIJING, Jun 29, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale jolted Wangqing County, in northeast China's Jilin Province, at 43.5 degrees north latitude and 130.6 degrees east longitude, at 01:19 (Beijing Time) Saturday, according to the China Seismological Bureau.
The quake was felt in most regions of the provinces of Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, eastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, northern Hebei Province and part of Beijing, and Shandong and Henan provinces, the bureau said.
No casualties or damages have been reported yet, according to the bureau.
Copyright 2002 XINHUA NEWS AGENCY.
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:27:54 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:29:15 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
To: KC Burke
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:32:11 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
To: HAL9000
That's a biggie.
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:32:23 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: HAL9000
That seems close to the shore. Is a Tsunami about to take place??????
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:33:11 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
To: KC Burke
No casualties or damages have been reported yet, according to the bureau. Not a whole lot to shake up besides the terrain in that region.
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:33:31 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
To: HAL9000
"For example, a magnitude 5.3 might be computed for a moderate earthquake, and a strong earthquake might be rated as magnitude 6.3. Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in measured amplitude; as an estimate of energy, each whole number step in the magnitude scale corresponds to the release of about 31 times more energy than the amount associated with the preceding whole number value.
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:36:13 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: TADSLOS
Not a whole lot to shake up besides the terrain in that region. ...and it was nearly 600 km down. Quakes that deep usually don't affect much. (Though they can be felt over a very broad area. I once felt one here in CA that was about that deep in Bolivia. That particular quake was felt as far away as Toronto!)
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:41:05 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
To: cmsgop
The Tsunami warning sites don't have any bullitens out for this one.
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:42:38 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
To: KC Burke
Good, I don't want my favorite Rental Beach House destroyed.
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:47:42 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
To: cmsgop
and that rental would be where? ;-)
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:49:44 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
To: KC Burke
Moclips,WA
It's a Spooky little town North of Ocean Shores,WA. It would be a Great Movie Setting.
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posted on
06/28/2002 2:56:01 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
To: HAL9000
HOLY SHAKE AND BAKE, that's a monster quake!!
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