Relief efforts were underway Tuesday, a day after a powerful earthquake struck central China, killing as many as 12, 000 people, officials said.
Among them: ethnic clashes in West Java, a riot following an earthquake in central Sumatra, and an anti-pollution protest that led to riots in Pasaruan, East Java.
Taipei's Apple Daily reports that a 72-year-old woman was crushed to death by a collapsed wall and 86 people were injured during the magnitude-6.1 earthquake in central Taiwan yesterday.
The official government list of victims from this week's earthquake in central Italy reached 287 on Friday, as Italians held a mass state funeral to lay the victims to rest.
Beijing's Sina and other major news portals report that an earthquake in Taiwan's central Nantou county at around 10:00 local time inured several people and even shook buildings further north in Taipei.
Experts are also debating the cause of the earthquake, notes Taipei's Central News Agency.
But since taking over the BOT in April 1998, when Thailand and its central bank were at the epicenter of a global economic earthquake, Chatumongkol, 55, can claim some credit for progress.
Prior to the disaster his administration had been under political fire for the slow pace of government reconstruction after the February earthquake and tsunami along Chile's south and central coast, and for his handling of a hunger strike by members of the Mapuche indigenous group of southern Chile, who are fighting for independence.
Four plants in northern Japan, including the Central Motor Plant, are near the region where the tsunami and earthquake impacted most severely.
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As part of a global network developing new disaster recovery protocols for rich countries, he has been studying the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that claimed 309 lives in L'Aquila in central Italy in 2009.
Its most destructive on record was an 8.4 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923 on the main, central, island of Honshu.
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In March, after a devastating earthquake and tsunami, the Bank of Japan and other major central banks around the world intervened in the markets when the dollar was trading around the 76-yen mark.
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Louis, I also joined Secretary Arne Duncan and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon at Carnahan High School of the Future to participate in the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut--the largest-ever, multi-state earthquake drill to be held in the United States, and the first major drill to take place along the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which was the site of one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history nearly 200 years ago.
Founded in 1966 by Cheng Yen, a Buddhist nun from central Taiwan, Tzu-Chi and its lotus symbol have become a reassuring sight throughout the earthquake zone.
Is the answer that, like a tall pine tree, the Japanese pagoda with its massive trunk-like central pillar known as a shinbashira simply flexes and sways when riding out a typhoon or an earthquake?
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