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Powerful earthquake shakes Georgia

Tue, Sep 08 2009 12:06 CET

byNick Iliev

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Powerful earthquake shakes Georgia

Earthquake damage in the Italian village of Onna April 7, 2009
Photo: Chris Helgren

The eastern Black Sea nation of Georgia was hit by a powerful 6.2 Richter scale earthquake on September 8, world media has reported. The tremor occurred early on Tuesday morning, at 3.41am local time, according to a report by the US Geological Survey, which tracks earth tremors worldwide.

The USGS said on its website that the tremor's epicentre was about 155km northwest of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, at a depth of about 10km.

There was no immediate report of any fatalities, although according to different media reports, there has been structural damage recorded in various regions, the extent of which has yet to be tallied.

Other reports claimed there was an after shock with an epicentre estimated at about 70km north of Kutaisi, in the Oni region. Kutaisi itself is 236km west of Tbilisi.

According to reports from the capital city, the earthquake was felt strongly, but there are no reported damaged houses or injured people in Tbilisi.


 

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Anonymous Nat Thu, Sep 10 2009 20:47 CET
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Why is there a picture of a damaged Italian city from April? That's pretty misleading.

Anonymous cadence Thu, Sep 10 2009 20:00 CET
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what was the effect!!!!!!!!


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