Fars News Agency said it was the largest earthquake to hit the region in at least 40 years.
Fars News Agency reported that it was the largest earthquake to hit the region in at least 40 years.
The quake comes just days after an earthquake of 4.2 magnitude hit the region, sending tremors in New Delhi.
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Schools in the county had to be closed earlier in the week as the first snow hit the region.
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All told, an estimated 10 tornadoes hit the region, said Mark Wiley, an emergency-response meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The Cold Spring Harbor district used its built-in snow days after Superstorm Sandy hit the region Oct. 29, she said.
The snow is expected to hit the region at about midnight, with Devon the most likely area to be affected.
Seven months after the financial crisis hit the region, pain is spreading but not turmoil, nor is economic stability being lost.
One farmer in Upper Teesdale said he feared he could lose his entire flock of sheep as poor weather conditions continue to hit the region.
Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that more than a week after Hurricane Katrina hit the region health officials still don't know if the water contains toxic chemicals.
And while oysters regionwide remained 17% below 2007-09 figures, the company says that the flooding that hit the region in 2011 has been blamed for some of that downturn, again by dumping more fresh water into the coastal estuaries.
This would be the worst storm to hit the Northeast region since, well, maybe ever.
Six tornadoes have already hit the Bundaberg region, tearing off roofs and injuring 17 people.
Sandy hit the Northeast region, which typically accounts for 25 to 30 percent of all auto sales in the United States, during the last few selling days of the month when sales are typically strongest.
Droughts are common in Turkana, the hardest-hit region in the nation.
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The government had reports of six Australians so far missing in the region hit by the waves, but Downer said there were fears were held for nationals vacationing in Sri Lanka, particularly the resorts region of Galle.
The north west of England has been the worst hit region so far, with the Stanlow Shell Oil Refinery at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire blockaded since Thursday night.
According to business weather tracking firm Planalytics, the key shopping period figures to be adversely affected by the 4 to 8 inches of rain that are expected to soak the corridor from Florida to North Carolina through Friday, then hit the mid-Atlantic region by the weekend.
Central Italy is also hit with the Abruzzo region losing four courts.
Widespread cellphone service outages across the region hit by Sandy, with some carriers performing better than others depending on the location, are giving those debates new urgency.
The serenity of the temples and gardens of Hiraizumi stands in poignant contrast with the deep wounds of a region hit hard by the earthquake of 11 March 2011.
In December 2012, the Stuxnet virus returned and hit companies in the southern Hormozgan region.
The brunt of the storm hit Myanmar's delta region, the country's bread basket.
Our correspondent says although there are detailed disaster-preparedness plans in other parts of the Philippines, there is a sense that this was lacking in the region where the storms hit.
Auto, oil companies and utilities in the affected region were the hardest hit.
As the storm force of Katrina was less than category three when it hit land and storms in the region have the capacity to exceed category four, the likelihood that any levee system can successfully restrain nature is low.
Also, the region hit by the earthquake and tsunami tend to have below-average holdings of Brazilian debt.
The South was the hardest hit region as overall starts fell by more than a fifth in May.
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