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Date:
Thu, 20 September 2007 10:26 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Peru's Most Devastating Earthquake in Nearly Four Decades
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Map locating the epicentre of 7.9
magnitude quake that hit southern Peru Wednesday. The earthquake has
devastated several Peruvian cities, killing at least 337 people and
forcing the government to declare a state of emergency.
(AFP/Graphic/Martin
Megino) AFP/Graphic - Thu Aug 16, 8:44 AM ET
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A man in Ica, south of Lima, tries a
public telephone among the rubble of a destroyed store 16 Aug.
Rescuers braved aftershocks Friday to pull bodies from the rubble
and search for survivors after Peru's most devastating earthquake in
nearly four decades left around 500 dead.
(AFP/APN/Carlos Lezama)
AFP/APN - Fri Aug 17,
4:01 AM ET
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The bodies of victims lie in Ica's Plaza
de Armas square, south of Lima, 16 Aug. Rescuers braved aftershocks
Friday to pull bodies from the rubble and search for survivors after
Peru's most devastating earthquake in nearly four decades left
around 500 dead.
(AFP/APN/Carlos Lezama)
AFP/APN - Fri Aug 17,
4:50 AM ET
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Residents burry relatives who died
during the earthquake that shook Peru in Pisco, Friday , Aug. 17,
2007. Peru's fire department said late Thursday the death toll from
the magnitude-8 quake that devastated the southern coast had risen
to 510, and rescuers were still digging through rubble from
collapsed adobe homes in cities and hamlets.
(AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)
AP - Fri Aug 17, 2:32 PM
ET
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Rescue workers carry the body of a quake
victim recovered from under the rubble in Pisco, Peru, Friday, Aug.
17, 2007. Peru's fire department said late Thursday the death toll
from the magnitude-8 quake that devastated the southern coast had
risen to 510, and rescuers were still digging through rubble from
collapsed adobe homes in cities and hamlets. At least 300 people
died in Pisco alone.
(AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)
AP - Fri Aug 17, 1:24 PM
ET
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Rescuers work in the recovering of dead
people under the rubble of the main church of Pisco, more than 300
km south of Lima, after a earthquake rocked Peru on 15 Aug.
(AFP/Ernesto Benavides)
AFP - Fri Aug 17, 11:25
PM ET
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Electricity lines that fell in Lima
after an earthquake. Officials battled Thursday to help victims of a
huge quake which rocked Peru's southern tourist coast killing some
500, injuring hundreds more, and leaving many feared trapped in the
rubble.
(AFP/Eitan Abramovich)
AFP - Thu Aug 16, 3:28
PM ET
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Wednesday 15 August 2007, a 7.9
magnitude quake hit southern Peru,
devastated several Peruvian cities,
killing at least 337 people and forcing the government to declare a
state of emergency. It was considered Peru's most devastating
earthquake in nearly four decades, and the death toll later on
amounted to around 500 dead.
Inevitably it reminded me with my
previous letter of "The
Significant Lima in June 2007", related with your attending the
traditional Inti Raymi ceremony in Cuzco, Peru, Sunday, June
24, 2007. At the same page of that letter, in the bottom, I wrote
about "Hideaki
Koizumi Towards Conversation Through the Mind".
While on Thursday 16 August 2007, there
was another earthquake, a strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake in the
Solomon Islands.
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Date:
Thu, 20 September 2007 10:51 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: Solomon Islands Earthquake After "Solomon's
Path with No Political Part"
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Strong quake hits
Solomon Islands
Thu Aug 16, 8:34 AM ET
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HONIARA (AFP) - A strong 6.7-magnitude
earthquake in the Solomon Islands on Thursday caused panic in the
capital but there were no reports of casualties or significant
damage.
The quake struck at a depth of just 1.8 kilometres (1.1
miles) below the sea and 73 kilometres (45 miles) southwest of
Honiara, the capital of the Pacific island nation, the US Geological
Service said on its website.
Police and the Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office
in Honiara said there were no reports of casualties or significant
damage. They added they were still to hear from isolated villages
nearer the quake's epicentre.
Local journalist Evan
Wasuka said there was violent shaking for nearly a minute when the
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"The houses were shaking, people were shouting, there was a bit of
panic," he said.
Witnesses said nervous families moved away from the coastline in the
capital in the immediate aftermath of the quake.
The western Solomon Islands were hit by a massive 8.0-maginitude
earthquake and tsunami on April 2, leaving more than 50 dead and
thousands displaced.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii did not issue a tsunami
warning following the latest quake, saying there was no real risk of
a widespread destructive tsunami, but warned that local tidal waves
were possible.
"Earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can
be destructive along coasts located within a hundred kilometres of
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Around the time of the above devastating Peru
earthquake of Wednesday 15 August 2007, another earthquake emerged in
another faraway location on Thursday 16 August 2007, at Solomon Islands,
close to Indonesia. It was after my previous letter of "Solomon's
Path with No Political Part" dated 13 August 2007.
Different from the Peru earthquake that was
considered as Peru's most devastating earthquake in nearly four decades
with around 500 dead, the Solomon Islands' earthquake producing no
reports of casualties or significant damage.
For me it becomes like a green light to my
letter of "Solomon's
Path with No Political Part".
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