FAKE TSUNAMI 'CHARITY' SCAMS

UK 12:00 - 12 January 2005
The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) is warning people to beware of scams taking advantage of public generosity following the tsunami disaster.

There are reports around the country of attempts to trick people into handing over bank account details - or money - on the pretext of it being used to help victims.

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Human Hand behind earth disaster?

Industry News on January 11, 2005 at 4:51 AM

Was this an earthquake creation experiment that ran out of control? Many countries are working on methods of creating massive earthquakes as means to defeat the enemy. The technologically advanced countries are working on this project.

If an earthquake and Tsunami can be created artificially and directed to a specific enemy, it can literally create havoc to the enemy.

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AINT NO GEOLOGY EXPERT, BUT ....

Earthquake: Coincidence or a corporate oil tragedy?
Publication Date : 2005-01-09
Now I don’t claim to be an expert on seismic activity, but there has been a series of events which led up to the 9.0 earthquake of the coast of Indonesia which can not be ignored. This all could be an enormous coincidence, but one must look at the information and choose for themselves whether there is anything to it.

On November 28th one month ago, Reuters reported that during a 3 day span 169 whales and dolphins beached themselves in Tasmania, an island of the southern coast of mainland Australia and in New Zealand. The cause for these beachings is not known, but Bob Brown, a senator in the Australian parliament, said "sound bombing" or seismic tests of ocean floors to test for oil and gas had been carried out near the sites of the Tasmanian beachings recently.
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Turkey rocks

Moderate earthquake shakes Turkey's Aegean coast
11/01/2005 - 08:51:55

A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck Turkey’s southern Aegean coast, sending residents into the streets in panic, the Anatolia news agency reported. At least one person was injured.
The quake hit at 01:48 a.m. (11.48pm Irish time) and was centred on the province of Mugla, the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory said. Several aftershocks followed.
Quakes are frequent in Turkey, much of which lies atop the active North Anatolian fault.
Two devastating earthquakes killed about 18,000 people in north-western Turkey in 1999.
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Earth's rock around the clock

Usa rocks today 12 Jan 05

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake shook the Coachella Valley early today, according to reports from the United States Geological Survey. The quake occurred at 12:10 a.m. and was centered 7 miles east of Desert Hot Springs. A dispatcher with the Desert Hot Springs Police Department said they received some calls from residents unsettled by the temblor, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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Earthquake Tolls Southern Peru
11 January 2005 | 20:23 | FOCUS News Agency
Lima. An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale rocked the southern parts of Peru. The quake was registered 765km east of Lima. The US Seismological Institute announced that it was centred 154km beneath the earth’s surface.
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MANILA, Jan. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Hundreds of families fled home for fear of a possible tsunami after moderate volcanic earthquakes hitthe northern Philippines, a local TV reported Monday. Quoting a Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) report, the ABS-CBN news channel said that the first earthquake in Taal Volcano occurred at 7:45 p.m. on Sunday, with an intensity 3 on the Richter scale, and an intensity 2 quake was also recorded a minute. Some 300 families, who left home and sought shelter at the public market and school, have been advised to remain calm since that volcanic quakes do not usually result in tsunamis, the TV report said.
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Earthquake Registered In South-Eastern Iran
Teheran. A 3.7-magnitude earthquake has been registered in South-Eastern Iranian province of Kerman, RIA Novosti reported, citing the geo-physical centre of the Teheran University. There are no reports for casualties or devastation.
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EARTHQUAKE ROCKS EASTERN TAIWAN
2005-01-08 22:36:21
Taipei, Jan. 1 (CNA) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale rocked eastern Taiwan Saturday. No casualties were reported.
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4.8 Magnitude Earthquake Shook Bolivia
8 January 2005 | 17:01 | FOCUS News Agency
Potosi. A minor earthquake measuring 4.8 on Richter’s scale has been registered in the region of the town of Potosi in Bolivia. According to the National Seismological Institute if the US, the earthquake’s epicentre has been at about 168 km deep. Until now no casualties or devastation is reported.
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Sinkholes in Thailand

The seismic hazard level of the South might have to be increased from zero-low risk to moderate-fairly high risk because the recent Sumatra earthquake and tsunami have had a profound effect on the region’s geological structure, leading earthquake experts have warned.

The most visible indicators are the ongoing soil collapse, which has created a series of sinkholes all over the region. The largest of the 18 holes found in the past two weeks by the Department of Mineral Resources is in Nakhon Si Thammarat, measuring 20 metres in diameter and 10 metres deep.

“This is part of the aftershock effect, which could take several months,” said Assoc Prof Panya Charusiri of Chulalongkorn University’s Department of Geology.


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Sinkholes appear in Perak Malaysia,

IPOH, Jan 10 (Bernama) -- Seven sinkholes appeared in Perak, with six around here, after the massive underwater earthquake in north Sumatra on Dec 26.

State Mineral and Geoscience Department director Mohamed Noor Ayoob said his department had still not establish the actual link for the appearance of the sinkholes with the earthquake but did not rule out the possibility the sinkhole incidents were related to the earthquake.

Of the seven sinkholes, the biggest, measuring 300m by 100m, appeared in a jackfruit orchard at Kampung Kuboi in Jeram, Kampar, which was quite unique in that 45 sinkholes of various sizes sprouted till last Wednesday.

"There is a possibility the seven sinkholes are related to the earthquake but this is the first time many sinkholes appeared at one time.

Before the earthquake, there was no reports of sinkholes emerging in big numbers," he told reporters Monday.


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Met dismisses threat to Thailand

In an official announcement this morning, the Thai Meteorological Department said that it had assessed the latest earthquake situation, and could confirm that there were no earthquakes which could pose a threat to the country's southern Andaman provinces of Ranong, Phang-nga, Phuket, Krabi, Trang or Satun.


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International forces unravel disaster victim identification system, it s a first

By Ed Cropley

PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Interpol and 20 national police forces have

launched history's biggest disaster victim identification system to unravel the

mesh of forensic data from the bodies of more than 5,000 tsunami dead in

Thailand.

"This is like a world first," said Jeff Emery, an Australian police forensic

expert in charge of a team of about 60 detectives, doctors and pathologists

from 20 countries. "It is using the world's best and latest technology."

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Earth Still Shaking Bad

Earth Still shaking, yesterdays talk
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050109-100854-4173r.htm



Sunday evening there has been a new quake, Japan
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050109-052631-7039r.htm



Monday Morning New Sumatra Quake
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050109-052631-7039r.htm



China 4 hours ago
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/10/content_2439062.htm