6.5 Magnitude Quake Strikes off Eastern Indonesia

Just a few of tthe Earthquakes for those that may have missed them in the past couple of days.
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A shallow undersea quake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted eastern parts of Indonesia on Tuesday, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate report of damage and casualties, officials said.
The quake struck at 18:03 p.m. Jakarta time (1103 GMT) with the epicenter at 163 km northwest Ambon, the capital city of Maluku province, and with the depth at 10 km under sea bed, an official of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency told Xinhua.
Head of Maluku Disaster Management and Mitigation Agency Eka Gultom told Xinhua by phone that there were no reports of buildings damaged or those injured or killed. "The quake causes no impact, everything is fine here," she said.
The USGS reported on its website that the quake was measured at 5.8 magnitude and the Hong Kong Observatory said it was at 6.3 magnitude.
Indonesia is prone to earthquake as it lies on a vulnerable quake-hit zone so called "the Pacific Ring of Fire."

Magnitude 5.7 - ECUADOR

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0005eg3.php

Magnitude	5.7
Date-Time	Monday, August 15, 2011 at 02:53:18 UTC Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 09:53:18 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	1.800°S, 76.992°W
Depth	166.8 km (103.6 miles)
Region	ECUADOR
Distances	183 km (113 miles) E of Riobamba, Ecuador 190 km (118 miles) ESE of Ambato, Ecuador 208 km (129 miles) S of Nueva Loja, Ecuador 243 km (150 miles) SE of QUITO, Ecuador
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 15.1 km (9.4 miles); depth +/- 9.8 km (6.1 miles)
Parameters	NST=335, Nph=354, Dmin=446.4 km, Rmss=0.86 sec, Gp= 50°, M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=9
Source	Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usc0005eg3

Magnitude-6.8 earthquake hits off northeast Japan; no reports of damage, injuries

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TOKYO — A magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast Friday, triggering a tsunami advisory that was later lifted. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in the temblor, which rattled the area devastated earlier this year by a massive quake and tsunami.
The 2:36 p.m. (0536 GMT) quake was centered about 185 miles (300 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo and at a depth of 12 miles (20 kilometers), slightly south of where the magnitude-9.0 temblor struck March 11, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said.

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A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast Friday, triggering a tsunami advisory that was later lifted. The quake was centered just south of where a massive magnitude-9.0 temblor struck in March. (Aug. 19)

The agency issued a tsunami advisory, predicting waves of 20 inches (50 centimeters) along the coast of Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, where a nuclear plant crippled by March’s quake-spawned tsunami is located. The agency lifted the advisory about 30 minutes later.
There were no abnormalities in key equipment at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, said Chie Hosoda, an official with Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant’s operator. She said some of the plant’s workers assigned to the coastal side of the facility temporarily retreated inside the building.

Magnitude 6.2 - FIJI REGION

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0005glw.php

Magnitude	6.2
Date-Time	Friday, August 19, 2011 at 03:54:27 UTC Friday, August 19, 2011 at 03:54:27 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	16.526°S, 176.905°W
Depth	413.2 km (256.8 miles)
Region	FIJI REGION
Distances	283 km (175 miles) SSE of Sigave, Ile Futuna, Wallis and Futuna 343 km (213 miles) WSW of Hihifo, Tonga 370 km (229 miles) SSW of MATA'UTU, Ile Uvea, Wallis and Futuna 2396 km (1488 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 13.3 km (8.3 miles); depth +/- 6 km (3.7 miles)
Parameters	NST=456, Nph=575, Dmin=553.3 km, Rmss=0.92 sec, Gp= 22°, M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=C
Source	Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	usc0005glw

Another Earthquake, 6.2 Magnitude, Off East Coast of Honshu, Japan

Honshu, Japan-(ENEWSPF)- The seabed has not settled off the coast of Honshu, Japan. Yet another substantial earthquake has struck, this one registring 6.2 magnitude on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 11:44:07 UTC, 0
Matthew 24
⁶And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
 ⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
 ⁸All these are the beginning of sorrows.
 ⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

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Magnitude-6.4 quake rocks central Chile

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SANTIAGO, Chile -- 

U.S. monitors say a magnitude-6.4 earthquake has struck just off the shore of central Chile, affecting the same area where last year's much larger earthquake set off a devastating tsunami.
Chile's emergency office says Wednesday's quake was a 6.3 and that no damage to people or buildings has been reported.
The U.S. Geological Survey says this earthquake struck just before 9 a.m. (1300 GMT) and was centered 59 miles (96 kilometers) southwest of Concepcion, the capital of Chile's Bio-Bio region.

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Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake

Image via WikipediaSee what happens when Governments get out of hand? To much power only bring yet more corruption. This is crazy. But true.
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Italian government officials have accused the country's top seismologist of manslaughter, after failing to predict a natural disaster that struck Italy in 2009, a massive devastating earthquake that killed 308 people.

A shocked spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) likened the accusations to a witch hunt.

"It has a medieval flavor to it -- like witches are being put on trial," the stunned spokesman told FoxNews.com.

Enzo Boschi, the president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), will face trial along with six other scientists and technicians, after failing to predict the future and the impending disaster.

Earthquakes are, of course, nearly impossible to predict, seismologists say. In fact, according to the website for the USGS, no major quake has ever been predicted successfully. 

"Neither the USGS nor Caltech nor any other scientists have ever predicted a major earthquake," reads a statement posted on the USGS website. "They do not know how, and they do not expect to know how any time in the foreseeable future."

John Vidale, a Washington State seismologist and professor at the University of Washington, agreed that earthquake forecasting is simply impossible.

"We're not able to predict earthquakes very well at all," he told LiveScience.

"One problem is, we don't know how much stress it takes to break a fault," Vidale told the site. "Second we still don't know how much stress is down there. All we can do is measure how the ground is deforming."

Not knowing either of these factors makes it pretty tough to figure out when stresses will get to the point of a rupture, and an earth-shaking quake, LiveScience explained.

The seven scientists were placed under investigation almost a year ago, according to a news story on the website of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) -- the world's largest general-science society and a leading voice for the interests of scientists worldwide.

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Seismologists tried for manslaughter over quake

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Hundreds attend the state funeral ceremony for victims of the April 6, 2009 earthquake, at piazza d'Armi in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, central Italy.

By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor

Earthquake prediction can be a grave, and faulty science, and in the case of Italian seismologists who are being tried for the manslaughter of the people who died in the 2009 L'Aquila quake, it can have legal consequences.

The group of seven, including six seismologists and a government official, reportedly didn't alert the public ahead of time of the risk of the L'Aquila earthquake, which occurred on April 6 of that year, killing around 300 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
But most scientists would agree it's not their fault they couldn't predict the wrath of Mother Nature.
"We're not able to predict earthquakes very well at all," John Vidale, a Washington State seismologist and professor at the University of Washington, told LiveScience.
Even though advances have been made, the day scientists are able to forecast earthquakes is still "far away," Dimitar Ouzounov, a professor of earth sciences at Chapman University in California, said this month regarding the prediction of the March 11 earthquake in Japan.

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Japanese Officials Ignored or Concealed Dangers

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OMAEZAKI, Japan — The nuclear power plant, lawyers argued, could not withstand the kind of major earthquake that new seismic research now suggested was likely.

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The Hamaoka nuclear power station in Omaeziki, Japan. The plant's vulnerability to earthquakes was the subject of a lawsuit filed a decade ago.

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Eiichi Nagano, 90, an activist who protested the dangers of the Hamaoka plant, stood near the plant on Friday.

If such a quake struck, electrical power could fail, along with backup generators, crippling the cooling system, the lawyers predicted. The reactors would then suffer a meltdown and start spewing radiation into the air and sea. Tens of thousands in the area would be forced to flee.
Although the predictions sound eerily like the sequence of events at the Fukushima Daiichi plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the lawsuit was filed nearly a decade ago to shut down another plant, long considered the most dangerous in Japan — the Hamaoka station.
It was one of several quixotic legal battles waged — and lost — in a long and largely futile attempt to improve nuclear safety and force Japan’s power companies, nuclear regulators, and courts to confront the dangers posed by earthquakes and tsunamis on some of the world’s most seismically active ground.
The lawsuits reveal a disturbing pattern in which operators underestimated or hid seismic dangers to avoid costly upgrades and keep operating. And the fact that virtually all these suits lost reinforces the widespread belief in Japan that a culture of collusion supporting nuclear power, including the government, nuclear regulators and plant operators, extends to the courts as well.
Yuichi Kaido, who represented the plaintiffs in the Hamaoka suit, which lost in a district court in 2007, said that victory could have led to stricter earthquake, tsunami and backup generator standards at plants across the nation.
“This accident could have been prevented,” Mr. Kaido, also the secretary general of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, said of Fukushima Daiichi. The operator of the plant, Chubu Electric Power Company, temporarily shut down Hamaoka’s two active reactors over the weekend, following an extraordinary request by Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

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Two Earthquakes Cause Major Damage in Spain - FoxNews.com

Image via Wikipedia The Spanish prime minister's office put the death toll at 10 and the Murcia regional administration said the deaths included a minor and occurred with the second, stronger quake.


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MADRID -- Two earthquakes struck southeast Spain in quick succession Wednesday, killing at least seven people, injuring dozens and causing major damage to buildings, officials said.

The epicenter of the quakes -- with magnitudes of 4.4 and 5.2 -- was close to the town of Lorca, and the second came about two hours after the first, an official with the Murcia regional government said on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.

The Murcia regional government said a hospital in Lorca was being evacuated, dozens of injured people were being treated at the scene and a field hospital was being set up. It said the seven deaths included a minor and occurred with the second, stronger quake.

Large chunks of stone and brick fell from the facade of a church in Lorca as Spanish state TV was broadcasting live from the scene. A large church bell was also among the rubble. The broadcaster reported that schoolchildren usually gather at that spot around that time, and if it had happened 10 minutes later, a "tragedy" could have occurred.

Spanish TV showed images of cars that were partially crushed by falling rubble, and large cracks in buildings. Nervous groups of residents gathered in open public places, talking about what happened and calling relatives and friends on their cell phones. An elderly woman appeared to be in shock and was seated in a chair as people tried to calm her.

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VIVAnews - Earthquake Hits Off Indonesias Main Island

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Following the tsunami warning, many in the town of Cilacap, closest to the quake's epicenter, poured into the grand mosque. When word finally came that the threat of a big wave had passed, they erupted in cheers, embraced one another or fell to their knees in thanks.

"We were very scared after seeing what happened in Japan - and also Aceh, of course," said Sukitno, a resident. "But God listened to our prayers. He spared us!"

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.7 quake that hit just after 3 a.m. was centered 200 miles (318 kilometers) off southern Java and 15 miles (24 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor.

Moderate earthquake hits North India

http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=58826
An earthquake of moderate intensity hit North India on Monday evening. According to the Indian Meteorological Department the quake was of 5.7 magnitude on the richter scale.
According to a Met department official the epicentre was in the Indo-Nepal Border near Uttarakhand, which lies in the seismic zone.

Magnitude 5.9 - TARAPACA, CHILE

Saturday, April 02, 2011 at 10:59:37 UTC Saturday, April 02, 2011 at 06:59:37 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	19.555°S, 69.072°W
Depth	83.4 km (51.8 miles)
Region	TARAPACA, CHILE

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GLOBAL Earthquake OVERVIEW - March 20, 2011 - Areas of concern, USA, EU, ASIA..

Image via WikipediaWith so much going on in the World I find it interesting to see a program that shows the worlds earthquakes so easily. What this guy decribes and shows is amazing to see first hand.
Christ spoke of Earthquakes in Various Places. What's amazing is anyone can see this today World Wide. Check out all this links below as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B5xCTqVvdw&feature=channel_video_title


links below:

link to earthquake 3D program:

http://download.cnet.com/Earthquake-3D/3000-2054_4-10395116.html


link from japan seismic agency showing japan slipping to the east:

http://www.gsi.go.jp/cais/topic110315.2-index-e.html

yellowstone seismographs:

http://mbmgquake.mtech.edu/earthworm/wavef_disp/current/welcome.html

http://www.isthisthingon.org/Yellowstone/daythumbs.php
pacific northwest volcano charts:

http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/welcome.html

european seismic agency:

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/index.php

phillipines seismic agency:

http://earthquake.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/update_SOEPD/EQLatest.html

link to italian seismic agency:

http://cnt.rm.ingv.it/earthquakes_map.php

link to iceland seismic agency:

http://en.vedur.is/earthquakes-and-volcanism/earthquakes

US seismographs:

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/heli_bb_nsn/

HAARP induction magnetometer:

http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi

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Blast at Japan nuke plant; thousands missing

Image via WikipediaBe sure to check out the link for the full story. We need to keep Japan in our Prayers.
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IWAKI, Japan – An explosion shattered a building housing a nuclear reactor Saturday, amid fears of a meltdown, while across wide swaths of northeastern Japan officials searched for thousands of people missing more than a day after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
The confirmed death toll from Friday's twin disasters was 686, but the government's chief spokesman said it could exceed 1,000. Devastation stretched hundreds of miles (kilometers) along the coast, where thousands of hungry survivors huddled in darkened emergency centers cut off from rescuers, electricity and aid.
The scale of destruction was not yet known, but there were grim signs that the death toll could soar. One report said four whole trains had disappeared Friday and still not been located. Others said 9,500 people in one coastal town were unaccounted for and that at least 200 bodies had washed ashore elsewhere.

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Watch raw footage of the Japan earthquake and tsunami

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An 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Northeast Japan spawned a ferocious tsunami that's caused massive destruction; flattening whole cities, starting raging fires, and killing hundreds. Nearly 88,000 people are reported missing, according to the official Kyodo news agency.

We've gathered some videos that show the scope of the disaster, and you can also see The Atlantic's collection of photos of the quake.
Footage of the tsunami quickly enveloping the city of Sendai, Japan. Officials say 200 to 300 bodies have been found in this city.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake

By MALCOLM FOSTER, Associated Press Malcolm Foster, Associated Press – 48 mins ago TOKYO – A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes on record slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it swept away ships, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control.

Hours later, the tsunami hit Hawaii but did not cause major damage. Warnings blanketed the Pacific, putting areas on alert as far away as South America, Canada, Alaska and the entire U.S. West coast. In northeastern Japan, the area around a nuclear power plant was evacuated after the reactor's cooling system failed. Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture, or state, closest to the epicenter. Another 137 were confirmed killed, with 531 people missing. Police also said 627 people were injured. The magnitude-8.9 offshore quake unleashed a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and was followed for hours by more than 50 aftershocks, many of them of more than magnitude 6.0.




Luke 21
10 Then He said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven. 12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake. 13 But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony.



Mark 13
. 8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows.
9 “But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them. 10 And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.



Matthew 24
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.




Luke 21

25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; 26 men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

 

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4.7-magnitude earthquake hits central Arkansas - CNN.com

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(CNN) -- A 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Arkansas just after 11 p.m. Sunday (12 a.m. ET Monday), the United States Geological Survey said.
The quake, the latest in a swarm of nearly 800 since September, is the strongest since a 5.0 event recorded in 1976, according to Scott Ausbrooks of the Arkansas Geological Survey.
Almost all of Arkansas could feel the quake, as could residents in parts of Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Oklahoma, Ausbrooks said.
The quake caused minor damage across a wide area of Arkansas. Most of the damage was from broken dishes, cracked drywall and, in one case, a broken window.
No injuries were reported.
The quake's epicenter was 37 miles from Little Rock, Arkansas, the USGS said.

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      10Then He continued by saying to them, “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, 11and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.       12“But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for My name’s sake. 13“It will lead to an opportunity for your testimony. 14“So make up your minds not to prepare beforehand to defend yourselves; 15for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute. 16“But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death, 17and you will be hated by all because of My name. 18“Yet not a hair of your head will perish. 19“By your endurance you will gain your lives.

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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Cheers erupted Wednesday as rescuers pulled a woman from a major building shattered in New Zealand's devastating earthquake, but the mood was dismal at another wreckage where police said all hopes of survivors were finished.

The confirmed death toll from Tuesday's magnitude-6.3 quake near the city of Christchurch rose to 75, and officials said it was almost sure to climb further. Police believe 100 people may have died in one building alone.
Some 300 people were listed as missing, as rescuers raced to find trapped survivors and imposed a strict nighttime curfew on the worst-hit areas.
One of the city's tallest buildings, the 27-floor Hotel Grand Chancellor, was in imminent danger of collapsing, with one corner sinking lower in the ground and the facade showing major buckling, Fire Service commander Mike Hall said.

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Magnitude 7.2 quake hits Pakistan - World news - South and Central Asia - Pakistan - msnbc.com

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WASHINGTON  — A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked a remote area of southwestern Pakistan early Wednesday, shaking many parts of the country and causing tremors as far away as India and the United Arab Emirates.

The quake was centered in Baluchistan province, the country's most sparsely populated area, said the United States Geological Service, occurring at 1:30 a.m. local time at a depth of some 50 miles.

Its epicenter was in a remote area some 200 miles (320 kilometers) southwest of the Baluchistan capital of Quetta, said chief Pakistani meteorologist Arif Mahmood, not far from the Afghan border.

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      Updated 5 minutes ago 1/18/2011 11:13:31 PM +00:00 The quake was centered in Baluchistan province, the country's most sparsely populated area, said the United States Geological Service, occurring at 1:30 a.m. local time at a depth of some 50 miles. Full story

The closest town to the epicenter was Dalbandin, with a population around 15,000 people, and is so remote that the nearby Chagai hills were the site of Pakistan's 1998 nuclear tests.
There was no word on damage in Dalbandin. But another town close to the epicenter, Karan, suffered no major damage, said Fateh Bangar, Karan's deputy commissioner. The town was some 45 miles (70 kilometers) from the epicenter, he said.
Nasir Baluch, a police officer in Karan, said several mud houses collapsed or were damaged in an area outside the town called Mashkil. There was no immediate word on casualties, but the area is sparsely populated, he said.

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