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Moderate Earthquake Hits This Morning Near Sitia on Crete

2020-04-22 by Argophilia Travel News

Sitia

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled the far-east of Crete Island this morning. The center of the tremor was 8 km east of the port city of Sitia.

Tags: crete, Crete quake, earthquakes, Greece earthquakes, Ierapetra, Libyan Sea, National Observatory Athens, seismic, Sitia, tremors

6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Myanmar Burma: Tremors Felt in Thailand

2011-03-24 by Aleksandr Shatskih

PAGER Damage assessment graph

Thursday night saw a strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale strike north east Myanmar, shaking up a region that is already on edge following the recent events in Japan. The powerful Burma quake was reported by the USGS in a fairly remote area of the country.

Tags: Asia earthquake, Bangkok, burma, Burma quake, chiang rai, earthquake, japan quake, myanamar, seismic, Thailand, USGS

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