Aardbevingen #6

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BreakingNewsOn: BREAKING NEWS -- MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NEW IRELAND REGION. DETAILS SOON. -- BREAKING NEWS

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Op woensdag 26 september 2007 15:14 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Hoe was je zo snel Roel? Twitter? Zit je dat te F5'en of is dat met een popup?

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Op woensdag 26 september 2007 15:18 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:

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Twitter via de mail . Zag 't toevallig.

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Op woensdag 26 september 2007 15:21 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Ah dan krijg je heel wat mails nu

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Quakes strike near New Caledonia

NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) -- A series of earthquakes struck near the French islands of New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Friday, prompting increased vigilance for a tsunami, though officials said there was no immediate risk.

About 15 quakes hit the region and some ranged in magnitude from 5.0 to 6.6, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quakes struck around midday local time and most were centered in a region about 100 miles east of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands, it said.

There were no reports of injuries or damage in the sparsely populated atolls nearest the epicenter, said Capt. Jean-Christian Baratto, an official with the French High Commissariat in New Caledonia.

He said residents of Maree Island, the closest to the epicenter, felt only "slight shaking."

Stuart Koyanagi, a geophysicist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, said the quakes were too small to generate a Pacific-wide tsunami.

While the center warned that the largest of the quakes had the potential to generate a local tsunami, Baratto dismissed that possibility.

"We are watching carefully. There is no risk of a local tsunami," he said.

The French High Commissariat in New Caledonia convened an urgent meeting to discuss the quakes. Local police were warned to stay "vigilant," the commissariat said.

New Caledonia is a collection of small islands with a population of about 221,000 people located some 1,120 miles northeast of Australia. It lies along the Pacific Basin's so-called "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines where quakes are frequent.

The quakes came soon as New Caledonia is testing a new tsunami warning system, Baratto said. The system includes text messages that would be sent to cell phones in the case of a tsunami risk.

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MAP 5.2 2007/09/28 02:20:04 -21.352 169.472 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 2007/09/28 02:01:34 -21.206 169.304 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.3 2007/09/28 01:51:00 -21.287 169.434 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.5 2007/09/28 01:43:57 -23.652 169.300 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 6.6 2007/09/28 01:35:52 -21.255 169.412 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.6 2007/09/28 01:25:16 -21.293 169.499 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 6.4 2007/09/28 01:01:49 -21.442 169.368 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.9 2007/09/28 00:44:48 -21.376 169.230 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 4.9 2007/09/27 22:10:11 -21.187 169.235 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.4 2007/09/27 22:01:13 -21.266 169.375 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.3 2007/09/27 21:26:58 -21.219 169.216 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.5 2007/09/27 21:05:35 -21.202 169.343 15.4 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.0 2007/09/27 21:02:05 -21.362 169.496 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.4 2007/09/27 20:47:20 -21.208 169.274 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 5.2 2007/09/27 20:25:59 -21.205 169.304 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 6.3 2007/09/27 19:57:45 -21.278 169.366 21.1 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS

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MAP 6.0 2007/09/28 11:16:39 -21.519 169.217 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS
MAP 6.0 2007/09/28 11:12:41 -21.377 169.202 10.0 SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS

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Op vrijdag 28 september 2007 16:24 schreef NewsMann het volgende:
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: Strong quake measuring at least 7.4 struck at a depth of 276km. -- JUST IN