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Indonesia quake death toll nearly 5,700
Jakarta (AFP) May 30, 2006 The death toll from the earthquake that rocked Indonesia's main island of Java at the weekend has risen to at least 5,698, the social affairs ministry said late Tuesday. The majority of those killed in Saturday's 6.3-magnitude quake -- 3,580 people -- lived in Bantul district, south of the central city of Yogyakarta. More than 1,660 others died in Klaten district, in Central Java province, the ministry said. The ministry had previously put the death toll from the catastrophe at 5,427. Officials at the ministry put the total number of injured at nearly 10,700, three-quarters of them seriously hurt. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Bringing Order To A World Of Disasters When the Earth Quakes A world of storm and tempest
Study Outlines Eruption At Undersea Volcano
Newport OR (SPX) May 30, 2006An international team of scientists has presented its findings from the first observations of the eruption of a submarine volcano that in 2004 and 2005 spewed out plumes of sulfur-rich fluid and pulses of volcanic ash 550 meters below the ocean's surface near the Mariana Islands northwest of Guam. |
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