Wednesday, September 16, 2009

5.9-Magnitude quake strikes India-Myanmar b0rder (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 5.9-magnitude seism struck orient Bharat nearby the mountainous abut with Myanmar, the U.S. Geological Survey reportable on Thursday.

The tremble impact at 2:21 a.m. topical instance on Friday/3:51 p.m. EDT/1951 time on weekday most 96 km from Imphal, Manipur, the USGS said. It was 98 km deep.


Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Jac0bs Engineering t0 build new S.F. h0spital (AP)

PASADENA, Calif. – doc Engineering Group Inc. said weekday it has conventional a lessen for direction services for cerebration of a San Francisco infirmary meliorate healthy to resist California's earthquakes.

Financial cost of the lessen from the municipality and county of San Francisco were not disclosed. Voters terminal assemblage commissioned finance of $887.4 meg in bonds, doc Engineering said.

The San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center send module change the underway infirmary with a artefact that complies with California's unstable country requirements, the Pasadena, Calif.-based field and cerebration consort said.

Construction begins this assemblage and extends finished 2014. The infirmary is due to be operative by 2015, doc Engineering said.

Shares lapse 26 cents, to $43.72 in salutation trading.


Str0ng quake hits New Zealand: seism0l0gists (AFP)

WELLINGTON (AFP) – A brawny seism activity 6.0 on the Richter bit struck soured the easterly of New Zealand's North Island weekday but there were no unmediated reports of damage, seismologists said.

The seism at 12:18 pm (0018 GMT) was centralised 60 kilometres (37 miles) northerly of White Island, soured the easterly coast of the North Island, at a depth of 250 kilometres, government-owned GNS Science said.

The tremble was change throughout the modify North Island and the northerly of the South Island, GNS Science said.