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6.8 Earthquake Rocks Northern, Eastern India,Today 18-sept Sikkim
New Delhi, Sept 18: Today earth An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 shook large parts of northern and eastern India with its epicenter located a few kilometres from Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim.
People rushed out of their homes in Lucknow, Patna, Delhi and National capital region, as tremors were felt in the evening.
The following are the seismological details:
Magnitude:
6.8 (Preliminary magnitude)
Date-Time:
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 12:40:47 UTC Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 06:10:47 PM at epicenter
Location:
27.764°N, 88.181°E
10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region:
Sikkim, India
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A massive explosion has struck a Japanese nuclear power plant after Friday’s devastating earthquake.
A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured.
Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant’s reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it.
A huge relief operation is under way after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 600.
Hundreds more people are missing and it is feared about 1,300 may have died.
The offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami which wreaked havoc on Japan’s north-east coast, sweeping far inland…
Japan Earthquake CNN report
Cars, ships and buildings were swept away by a wall of water after the 8.9-magnitude quake, which struck about 400km (250 miles) north-east of Tokyo. A state of emergency has been declared at a nuclear power plant but officials said there were no radiation leaks. The death toll is unclear, but police say 200 to 300 bodies have been found in the port city of Sendai.Kyodo news agency reported that 133 other people had died and another 531 were missing, and projected the death toll would eventually top 1,000. Measured at 8.9 by the US Geological Survey, the tremor struck at 1446 local…
