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I think due to my attachment, I'll just do a review for what has happened throughout the whole week...

Monday, April 19, 2010
Quake Hits Mining Area in Papua New Guinea

A strong 6.3-magnitude quake shook houses and damaged buildings in a Papua New Guinea mining area on sunday but there were no reports of casualties and no tsunami warning, officials said.
They said villagers reported cracks in buildings and a damaged water tank in the Hidden Valley gold-and-silver mine area, near the town of Lae, but no houses fell after the quake struck at around 9.15am.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Quake Hits Aussie Gold Mine

A 5.0-magnitude earthqauke struck Western Australia's major gold-mining region yesterday, causing the roofs of several buildings to collapse and prompting the evacuation of mines, schools and hospitals.
Two people in the mining town of Kalgoorlie-Boulder were treated for minor injuries, including a teenage girl who was hit by falling rubble, news reports and police said. Hundreds of workers were evacuated from the vast open-cast "Super Pit" gold mine and the underground Mount Charlotte mine as a precaution.
It was the strongest earthquake to hit the Goldfields region in 50 years, Geoscience Australia said.

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Friday, April 23, 2010
Quake Victims Hit By Bad Weather

Homeless earthquake survivors huddled in thin tents against strong winds yesterday while traffic slowed on ice- and snow-slicked roads, the latest obstacle to recovery in mountainous far-western China.
Snow started falling early yesterday in Yushu country, the centre of the disaster, and more was expected through tomorrow.
Thousands of people were left homeless by the April 14 quake in the remote Tibetan area. The death toll stood at 2,183, with 84 missing, yesterday.
Meanwhile, a Ministry of Civil Affairs spokesman, Mr. Peng Chenmin, said he didn't know about an order issued in recent days for thousands of Tibetan monks to leave Yushu after they had rushed there and been the first to help rescue survivors and bury victims of the disaster.
"After the disaster, the central government sent in a large number of rescuers while lots of monks also participated, which can be seen in many media reports," he said.

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Friday, April 23, 2010
Storms in Space

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has unveiled the first images - an eruption prominence on the sun - from a satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms.
Researchers showed off brightly-coloured images and short movie clips of the sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory in a webcast on Wednesday. Chief scientist Dean Pesnell says the satellite - launched on Feb 11 - has already helped researchers to discover new things.

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