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Landslides kill six in Indonesia: police
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 31, 2009 Six people have died in landslides triggered by heavy rain on the main Indonesian island of Java, police said Saturday. "We have found all six bodies. It was hard to find them as we only used hands and hoes," said local police chief Rianto, who only uses one name. Local authorities also said 650 people had been evacuated in the Karanganyar district of central Java, while the health ministry said it would send emergency food supplies to the area. Landslides occur frequently in Indonesia during the wet season, which occurs during the northern winter. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Woods Hole MA (SPX) Jan 24, 2009Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic settlements around its perimeter? A geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and two Romanian colleagues report in the January issue of Quaternary Science Reviews that, if the flood occurred at all, it was much smaller than previously proposed by other researchers. |
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