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Powerful Earthquake Strikes Burma

   VOA News  March 24, 2011

   A  strong  earthquake has struck northeast Burma, near its border with
   Thailand.
   The  [1]U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 6.8 and
   said it hit Thursday evening, local time, about 89 kilometers north of
   the Thai city of Chiang Rai.
   Buildings  swayed as far away as Bangkok, 770 kilometers to the south.
   So  far,  no damage reports have come in from the sparsely area around
   the epicenter.
   The  [2]Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says the quake was too deep and
   too far inland to generate a tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

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   TF8&hq=&hnear=Chiang+Rai,+Thailand&t=p&ll=19.87006,98.140869&spn=3.615
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   Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.

References

   1. http://www.usgs.gov/
   2. http://ptwc.weather.gov/
   3. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Chiang+Rai,+Thailand&aq=&sll=39.293557,-76.604791&sspn=0.008752,0.020578&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Chiang+Rai,+Thailand&t=p&ll=19.87006,98.140869&spn=3.615772,5.273438&z=7&iwloc=A&output=embed
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