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May 2006, Java Earthquake
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0779e117-fe4a-4a08-9eea-a503c131ba0f/5BE027B7-9FEE-42F6-9851-D1922DB9C390/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_2006_Java_earthquake&oldid=211046716" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_2006_Java_earthquake&oldid=211046716" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_2006_Java_earthquake&oldid=211046716"><P>The <B>May 2006 Java <A title="Earthquake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake" linkindex="11" set="yes">earthquake</A></B> occurred at 05:54 <A title="UTC+7" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B7" linkindex="12" set="yes">local time</A> on <A title="May 27" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_27" linkindex="13" set="yes">27 May</A> <A title="2006" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" linkindex="14">2006</A> (22:54 <A title="Greenwich Mean Time" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time" linkindex="15" set="yes">GMT</A> <A title="May 26" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_26" linkindex="16" set="yes">26 May</A>), in the <A title="Indian Ocean" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean" linkindex="17" set="yes">Indian Ocean</A> around 25 km (15 miles) south-southwest of the <A title="Indonesia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" linkindex="18" set="yes">Indonesian</A> city of <A title="Yogyakarta (city)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogyakarta_%28city%29" linkindex="19" set="yes">Yogyakarta</A>, near Galur, on the southern side of the island of <A title="Java (island)" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28island%29" linkindex="20">Java</A> (<SPAN class="plainlinksneverexpand"><IMG src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png" title="show location on an interactive map" /><A rel="nofollow" title="http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?pagename=May_2006_Java_earthquake¶ms=8.007_S_110.286_E_{{{5}}}" class="external text" href="http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?pagename=May_2006_Java_earthquake¶ms=8.007_S_110.286_E_{{{5}}}" linkindex="21" set="yes"><SPAN title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">8.007° S 110.286° E</SPAN></A></SPAN>), 17.1 km below the <A title="Seabed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabed" linkindex="22" set="yes">seabed</A>, according to the <A title="U.S. Geological Survey" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Geological_Survey" linkindex="23">U.S. Geological Survey</A>; <A title="Jakarta" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta" linkindex="24" set="yes">Jakarta</A>'s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency determined the <A title="Hypocentre" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocentre" linkindex="25" set="yes">hypocentre</A> to be about 37 km south of Yogyakarta, 33 km below the seabed. The earthquake had a <A title="Moment magnitude scale" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" linkindex="26" set="yes">magnitude</A> of 6.3.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0" linkindex="27" set="yes">[1]</A></SUP> Two <A title="Aftershock" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftershock" linkindex="28" set="yes">aftershocks</A>, measured at 4.8 and 4.6, occurred between 4 and 6 hours later.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=May_2006_Java_earthquake&oldid=211046716">According to the latest news, there have been 5,782 <A title="Death" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death" linkindex="43">deaths</A>, while 36,299 people have been injured, 135,000 houses damaged, and an estimated 1.5 million left homeless.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><A title="" href="#cite_note-1" linkindex="44">[2]</A></SUP> 3,580 of those deaths and more than 1,892 injuries occurred in the area of <A title="Bantul" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantul" linkindex="45" set="yes">Bantul</A>, while 1,668 others died in villages in the southern parts of <A title="Klaten" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaten" linkindex="46">Klaten</A> district.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><A title="" href="#cite_note-2" linkindex="47">[3]</A></SUP> Around five million people live within 50 km of the epicentre.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5BE027B7-9FEE-42F6-9851-D1922DB9C390/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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