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Europe should ponder lessons of Chinese quake
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Thomas Wenk, chairman of the Swiss Society for Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, was speaking in the wake of Monday’s earthquake, which has left at least 15,000 dead. He said that while Switzerland is in a lower risk category than most of China, an earthquake of similar strength could occur in other parts of Europe.…
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The canton Basel City prosecutor has launched an investigation to find if the company behind the Deep Heat Mining project should pay for repairs. The tremor was felt shortly before 6pm and measured 3.4 on the Richter scale according to the Swiss Seismological Service. Normally, there are three or four earthquakes of this size annually…
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The disaster simulation in the Rhine valley area coincides with the 650th anniversary of the great Basel earthquake on October 18, 1356 – an estimated 6.5 magnitude quake which destroyed most of the city. The Rheintal 06 is a three-day exercise being staged by Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein. Under the fictitious scenario, an imaginary 6.0-magnitude…
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