[net-gold] DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES : COUNTRIES: INDIA: Big Earthquake in Sikkim, Tremors Across India; 54 Dead, Over 100 Injured
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DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES :
COUNTRIES: INDIA:
Big Earthquake in Sikkim, Tremors Across India; 54 Dead, Over 100 Injured
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Big Earthquake in Sikkim, Tremors Across India; 54 Dead, Over 100 Injured
September 19, 2011 17:33 IST
NDTV
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/big-earthquake-
in-sikkim-tremors-across-india-54-dead-over-100-injured-134537
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New Delhi: At least 54 people have been killed, 42 in India, five in
Nepal and seven in Tibet, and over 100 are injured after an earthquake
measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale shook Sikkim on Sunday evening. Strong
tremors were also felt in parts of North and East India and parts of
Bangladesh and Nepal, causing widespread panic. The epicentre of the quake
is said to be just 64 kilometre North-West of Gangtok. (First Pictures)
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35 people, including two Armymen, were killed in Sikkim and many others
received injuries there. In Bihar, a seven-year-old girl was among two
dead. Latehar was one of the worst hit in India; two people died there and
wide cracks were visible on houses. Roads also cracked in several places
and residents ran out on the streets. Five more died in West Bengal. Of
the five people killed in Nepal, three casualties were reported from
Kathmandu, where the British embassy collapsed and smashed a car. (Read:
Five killed as earthquake hits Nepal)
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Tremors were felt in Lucknow, Patna, Kolkata, New Delhi and the National
Capital Region, which sent thousands of people running out of their homes.
(Forum: Did you feel the tremors?)
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Three aftershocks, of magnitude 5.7, 5.1 and 4.6 were also felt in Sikkim,
says the India Meteorological Department. (Buzz on Twitter)
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Many buildings in Sikkim developed cracks, including the Sikkim Manipal
University building. National Highway 31A was also badly hit, but the Army
and the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) have restored the road
communication. However, it is open for one way traffic only.
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The highway connects Sukna in Darjeeling (West Bengal) to Gangtok in
Sikkim.
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A total number of 4000 people are involved in the rescue operations
including the personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). They
have launched search and rescue operations in the Pegong area of north
Sikkim which has been "badly affected." The ITBP rescued 15 foreign
tourists and 150 villagers in their operations. They were moved to
battalion headquarters. Rescue operations are, however, being hampered by
heavy rainfall and landslides.
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India Quake Toll Rises After Plant Confirms Workers Deaths
By LYDIA POLGREEN
Published: September 21, 2011
New York Times
Asia/Pacific
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/world/asia/india-quake-
toll-rises-after-plant-confirms-workers-deaths.html
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NEW DELHI The death toll in the earthquake that shook the northeastern
Indian state of Sikkim rose on Wednesday as a company building a huge
hydroelectric power plant in the region confirmed that 17 of its workers
had died and seven were critically injured.
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Relief work is going on at war footing, Mr. Chamling said. All the roads
are broken and damaged. All the water pipe lines are damaged. All the
electric lines are damaged and disrupted. It will take months to repair
all that.
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Officials at the company building the 1,200-megawatt plant on the upper
reaches of the glacier-fed Teesta River said in a statement that none of
the workers had been on duty because it was a Sunday, but had been killed
by landslides.
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Al Jazeera Video on YouTube Regarding Earthquake in Nepal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0TKqSE7Gsc
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Rescue workers search for survivors of Himalaya quake
By Biswajyoti Das
GUWAHATI, India
Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:11am EDT
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/
us-india-quake-idUSTRE78K1EJ20110921
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(Reuters) - Rescue workers with sensors and sniffer dogs searched through
the rubble on Wednesday for more survivors of an earthquake that has
killed at least 92 people in a remote Himalayan region spanning India,
Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet.
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More than 3,000 people have been rescued in the Indian state of Sikkim,
the epicenter of the 6.9 magnitude quake, since Sunday in operations
hampered by heavy rain, thick clouds and landslides that cut off some of
the worst affected areas.
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Remote areas near the state's northern border with Tibet remain out of
reach as rain washed away roads that are now being hastily rebuilt by
hundreds of construction workers. About 45 tourists are among those holed
up in the area, while workers at a hydroelectric plant remain unaccounted
for.
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"The death toll is likely to go up," S.K. Pradhan, a senior bureaucrat
stationed in north Sikkim, told Reuters.
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"I think it will take a long time to restore the road communications in
some areas."
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The quake, which was felt as far away as New Delhi in India and
Bangladesh, killed at least 78 people in India alone. In Tibet at least
seven died and seven more were killed in Nepal.
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RAHUL GANDHI VISIT
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Ruling Congress party heavyweight Rahul Gandhi, seen by his supporters as
India's next prime minister, touched down on Wednesday in an air force
helicopter in Gangtok, state capital of Sikkim, to meet some of the
victims.
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