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Earthquake sends small waves out to South Pacific islands


Warning for possible tsunami waves as tall as a metre above tide level along coasts of Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu. ✔ Tsunami waves as tall as a metre above the tide level were possible along the coasts Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu following a powerful earthquake in the South Pacific, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on Wednesday ✔ The magnitude 7.1 undersea quake hit off New Caledonia about 03:50 GMT, and had already sent small waves radiating out toward the Loyalty Islands, some 250 km west of the epicentre


Powerful quake hits off New Caledonia, small tsunami waves generated


A powerful undersea earthquake measuring a magnitude 7.1 struck near New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Wednesday, creating small tsunami waves, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. ✔ The quake struck at a shallow depth of 10 km (six miles) some 372 km (230 miles) east of the New Caledonian capital Noumea ✔ We felt it and they felt it more strongly on the Loyalty Islands, Civil Defense spokesman Olivier Ciry told Reuters by phone from Noumea ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


BREAKING: ‘Powerful’ magnitude 7 quake HITS New Caledonia -Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre


A STRONG earthquake measuring a magnitude of 7.0 hit New Caledonia at 2.52pm local time, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has said. ✔ (Image: EXPRESS) It struck at a shallow depth of 10 km (six miles) some 372 km (230 miles) east of the New Caledonian capital Noumea ✔ The Centre said there was no Pacific-wide tsunami threat


BREAKING: HUGE earthquake strikes Ring of Fire region


A MASSIVE 7.0 magnitude quake struck near the islands of New Caledonia. ✔ DS The powerful undersea quake rattled the South Pacific islands on Wednesday, the Pacific Warning Center said ✔ Monitors said the quake struck at a shallow depth of six miles some 230 miles east of the New Caledonia capital, Noumea


Magnitude-7 earthquake hits New Caledonia in South Pacific


New Caledonia has been rocked by a magnitude-7 earthquake this morning. The South Pacific island was rocked by the tremors at a shallow depth of six miles. Its epicentre was 230 miles east of the N… ✔ 2 Map showing where earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.0 and over have struck in the past week ✔ The latest quake in Venezuela was so powerful the effects were felt in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada ✔ The area stretches 25,000 miles from South America to Australia via the western United States and East Asia


California earthquake MAP: 4.4 magnitude QUAKE shook California city - Where is La Verne?


CALIFORNIA has been struck by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake, making it the third quake just this month. Where is La Verne, California? ✔ No reports of damage or injuries have so far been issued ✔ This is the third earthquake California has experienced this month alone, and recently a 6.2 magnitude quake sparked fear the Big One might be coming ✔ He said: The recent earthquakes are not correlated in any shape or form


Quake measuring magnitude 7 strikes near New Caledonia in South...


A powerful undersea earthquake measuring magnitude 7 struck near New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Wednesday, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. ✔ SYDNEY (Reuters) - A powerful undersea earthquake measuring magnitude 7 struck near New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Wednesday, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said ✔ The center said there was no Pacific-wide tsunami threat ✔ The quake struck at a shallow depth of 10 km (six miles) some 372 km (230 miles) east of the New Caledonian capital Noumea ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Despair for Australian farmers as drought kills livestock


In better times, the dam on farmer Kevin Tongue's property is three meters deep with water. It's now been empty for three months. The worst drought in living memory is sweeping through Australia's east, the country's main food bowl, decimating wheat and barley crops and leaving grazing land parched. Tongue,… ✔ In better times, the dam on farmer Kevin Tongue's property is three meters deep with water ✔ A sustained break of the big dry is required to enable grazing to resume ✔ The state government has officially declared a drought ✔ Australia recorded its fifth-driest July on record last month


Magnitude 4.4 earthquake shakes Southern California, 3.4 aftershock follows


A 4.4 magnitude earthquake in La Verne, 25 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, shook Southern California on Tuesday night. ✔ An uptick in earthquakes in seismically active Anza has some thinking about The Big One ✔ There were no immediate reports of injuries or property damage ✔ According to the Associated Press, the main quake was widely felt, either as a sharp jolt near the epicenter or a rolling motion farther away ✔ It shook buildings for several seconds in downtown Los Angeles


2.5-magnitude earthquake rattles 'nuclear town'; no radiation leak reported


undefined ✔ There were no reports of property damage or casualties, KMA officials said ✔ The plant is located 11.8 kilometers away from the epicenter, the NSSC said ✔ We are checking the plant's structure and other details to make sure the earthquake caused no damage to the plant


Fukushima city to remove statue clad in radiation protective gear


FUKUSHIMA--Fukushima city will remove a large statue of an injured child wearing a yellow hazmat sui ✔ The 6.2-meter-tall Sun Child statue, weighing about 800 kilograms, was created by contemporary artist Kenji Yanobe, 52, a professor at the Kyoto University of Art and Design ✔ Kohata acknowledged a lack of consensus-building before the Sun Child was erected ✔ Sculptor Yanobe also accepted the city’s decision to remove his artwork ✔ (This article was compiled from reports by Morikazu Kogen, Hikari Maruyama and Hiroshi Fukatsu.)


California earthquake: 4.4 quake strikes Los Angeles - is the ‘BIG ONE’ coming?


A MAGNITUDE-4.4 struck La Verne, Los Angeles last night, strong enough to rattle Los Angeles County, Orange County and Inland Empire areas. But is the legendary ‘Big One’ coming? ✔ The study also found the risk of a large earthquake may be increasing more rapidly than scientists had previously believed ✔ The San Andreas Fault sits in the Pacific 'Ring of Fire', the massive horseshoe-shaped ring around the Pacific along with the majority of the world's seismic and volcanic activity occurs


California lawmakers finalize details of a $1-billion wildfire prevention plan, but tough votes lie ahead


A bipartisan group of California state legislators signed off Tuesday on a plan to spend $1 billion on efforts to clear fire-prone trees and brush from across the state but refused to lower the costs that will be paid by utility companies for deadly fires in 2017. ✔ go to new posts Aug. 28, 2018, 11:53 p.m. California Legislature By John Myers Aug 28, 2018 | 11:53 PM California lawmakers finalize details of a $1-billion wildfire prevention plan, but tough votes lie ahead A firefighter works to prevent flames from crossing Highway 29, north of Calistoga, Calif., on Oct. 12, 2017 ✔ Jerry Brown on Monday vetoed a bill that would have prevented politicians from paying family members an amount greater than fair-market value for goods and services


Political ad attacks Gavin Newsom as a 'child of privilege'


An independent political committee backing Republican John Cox for California released a new campaign ad bashing Democratic candidate Gavin Newsom as a “child of privilege” with a far-left political agenda. The independent expenditure committee, called Restore Our Values, paid $250,000 to air the... ✔ The conversation up here has to be focused on making sure that event doesn’t happen, said state Sen ✔ We wanted to make sure that fair housing still exists in California even though it’s been threatened by the Trump administration and Congress, Santiago said


Issue has proved too big for run of Australian leaders


From Howard to Turnbull, each played opportunistic politics with an issue upon which most Australians are united. Each of them failed and fell. Morrison is unlikely to do much better. ✔ The electorate would have cut him a lot of slack if he had done so ✔ New Energy Minister Angus Taylor with Prime Minister Scott Morrison at Government House on Tuesday ✔ John Hewson is a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, and a former Liberal opposition leader


The four signs you shouldn't marry the person you're currently dating 


American relationship counsellor David Bennett warns there are a few major red flags you should be watching out for that suggest a white wedding isn't for you. ✔ These pairings usually end in disaster and inevitable divorce, because one heart wasn't in it from the start ✔ It would be much easier (and cheaper) to simply throw a party than tie the knot in this case ✔ 'Marriage is about committing to a person, which includes a lot of sacrifices and obligations (including legal ones),' he said


China builds national database for water networks


A national database for water networks containing the physical data of over 3.33 million natural and artificial rivers, lakes, reservoirs and canals has been formally completed. ✔ Aerial photo taken on April 5, 2017, shows Dongtianzhuang village in Baiyangdian, North China's largest freshwater wetland, in Anxin county, Hebei province ✔ The project was jointly completed by National Geomatics Center of China under Ministry of Natural Resources, Heilongjiang Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Geoinformation, Chongqing Institute of Surveying and Mapping and other units


GBBO heartbreak as first contestant leaves the tent - with shock Star Baker


Manon was crowned Star Baker but Imelda was forced to leave after a tough biscuit week ✔ Imelda's exist wasn't the only talking point tonight as viewers noticed something very different about Noel tonight that sent social media into meltdown ✔ Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to playTap to play The video will start in 8Cancel Play now *The Great British Bake Off airs on Tuesdays on Channel 4 at 9pm


Iggy Azalea flashes her midriff and reclines on Louis Vuitton couch


Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, 28, flashes her midriff and a hint of underboob, in a series of racy snaps shared to Instagram on Tuesday. ✔ She's hot on the promotional trail for her new EP Survive the Summer ✔ The social media display comes a day after the blonde denied she was in a new relationship with NBA star Jimmy Butler, who plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves ✔ The pair split after his former Lakers teammate D'Angelo Russell recorded him admitting to cheating


Blood pressure drug recall: FDA warns of potentially 'life-threatening' labeling mixup


A specific lot of blood pressure medication has been recalled after a bottle from that lot was found to be mislabeled. ✔ ATTA KENARE, AFP/Getty Images Fullscreen People wearing masks depicting Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov take part in a protest on Aug. 28, 2018, in front of the Russian embassy in Prague ✔ You may also want to view these photo galleries: Replay Last SlideNext Slide


Greek PM seeks to claim centre ground with cabinet shakeup


Alexis Tsipras brings in younger ministers to refresh government in run-up to crucial elections ✔ Myrsini Zorba, a professor of cultural theory and erstwhile socialist MEP, became culture minister, while the former conservative MP cum independent, Katerina Papacosta, was elevated to the post of deputy minister at the key citizens protection ministry


With McCain Gone Are Imperialists Now Leaderless?


“McCain’s Death Leaves Void” ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began: “The death of John McCain will leave Congress without perhaps its loudest voice in support of the robust internationalism that has defined the country’s security relations since World War II.” Certainly, the passing of the senator whose life story will dominate the news until he is buried at his alma mater, the Naval Academy, on Sunday, leaves America’s interventionists without their greatest champion. ✔ McCain’s Death Leaves Void ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began: The death of John McCain will leave Congress without perhaps its loudest voice in support of the robust internationalism that has defined the country’s security relations since World War II ✔ Lindsey Graham, and nominate Donald Trump, who said he would seek to get along with Russia and extricate America from the wars into which McCain had helped plunge the country


There’s only one way to stop Brexit: from the ground up | Zoe Williams


Forget Westminster, the grassroots movement for a great reversal already exists, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams ✔ The nation’s focus is all on Brexit as a Tory soap opera: 48 signatures from the 1922 committee, a few big cheeses from the CBI, away days at Chequers ✔ The soap opera hots up when one of its characters says scrap the Good Friday Agreement, or get pensioners to pick fruit ✔ To walk away on a Lexit basis is not just uncomradely, it’s a little bit rich


Houses claimed by the canal: life on Egypt's climate change frontline | Ruth Michaelson


In Alexandria’s ‘Little Venice’, a poor fishing community faces the demolition of homes and loss of its livelihood thanks to rising seas – and a government keen to clear its slums ✔ On the banks of the El Max canal near the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, one man untangles fishing nets in his turquoise-painted boat as the sound of a sledgehammer hitting bricks ricochets down the waterway ✔ It feels like Venice – I have a boat like they do in Europe


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