earthquake
January 14th, 2010
After the recent earthquake in Haiti, the Embassy of Spain in Haiti has not been able to make contact with thirty of the 110 Spanish nationals living in the Caribbean country. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0, striking shortly before 5pm local time on Tuesday, buildings and power lines ...
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January 15th, 2010
The first two confirmed Spanish deaths in the wake of the Haiti earthquake are composed of a married couple, María Jesús Plaza and Ives Baltroni, reported the Deputy Prime Minister, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, today. She added that both have been identified by their two daughters. These are the ...
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January 20th, 2010
Earlier today, the body of police officer, Rosa Crespo Biel, aged 47, was found dead in Haiti, as reported by the Zaragoza Police Headquarters with which she was commissioned. She had been missing after the earthquake that shook the country just
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January 20th, 2010
With the catastrophic impact of the recent Haiti earthquake, Francisco Vidal, researcher from the Andalusian Institute of Geophysics, has released information on the effects of a similar occurrence in Granada, Spain which lies on a fault line of the earth's crust. Towns like Santa Fe in the Vega of Granada or ...
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February 8th, 2010
According to the Seismic Network of the National Geographic Institute (IGN), at just after 3pm today, Tenerife recorded an earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale. The quake occurred 10 kilometres from the southwest coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, at a depth of 23 kilometres. The energy
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April 12th, 2010
**LATEST: News on the May 11 Murcia earthquake** According to the National Geographic Institute (IGN), an earthquake measuring 4.8 magnitude on the Richter scale was recorded last night at 00.08 in the vicinity of Dúrcal in Granada, Andalucia, fortunately there are no reports of any personal injury or major damage to ...
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March 18th, 2011
Hundreds of people took part in protests held across Spain to demand the closure of the country's six nuclear power stations after Japan's nuclear accident following a massive earthquake. Demonstrators, many wearing masks or holding signs that read "No nuclear power, neither here nor in Japan", gathered in small groups in ...
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August 29th, 2011
More than 4,000 very low-intensity earthquakes (many with negative values on the Richter scale) have occurred on the Canary island of El Hierro since 17th July, according to the National Geographic Institute records. Speaking to Servimedia, researcher for the Higher Council for Scientific Research, Alicia Garcia, said that this does not ...
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