Wednesday, October 14, 2009 WASHINGTON: A second earthquake in less than 24 hours shook Alaska's desolate Aleutian Islands Tuesday measuring 6.3 on the moment magnitude, US seismologists said.The quake hit some 75 miles (120 kilometers) from Nikolski off the coast at a depth of some 8.5 miles (13.7 kilometers) at 2021 GMT, the US Geological Survey reported.It came after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the islands late Monday at 9:37 pm (0537 GMT Tuesday) about 91 kilometers (57 miles) southwest of Unalaska, a town of about 4,000 people, according to the USGS.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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