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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Honduras' Caribbean coast was struck by an earthquake measuring 5.3 degrees on the Richter scaleon Sunday, but there were no reports of injury or property damage. The quake took place offshore, one kilometer deep into the earth's crust, and 36 km west of northern Honduras port Puerto Cortes, said William Betancourt, from Honduras' Permanent Contingency Commission. He added that Nicaragua's Seismology...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) meets International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei (L) during an official meeting in Tehran October 4, 2009. IAEA will inspect Iran's new uranium enrichment site in Qom on Oct. 25, ElBaradei said on Sunday. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi UN: Iran Nuclear Dispute Shifting To Cooperation -- Yahoo News/AP TEHRAN, Iran – The head of...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
President Obama and President Castro (Photo from Latina ) US, Cuba Held Unannounced Talks -- Yahoo News/AP NEW YORK – A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, raising hopes for a thaw in long-icy relations. Read more .... MIDDLE EAST US welcomes Iranian gesture...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Official: Dozens Of Taliban Killed After US Deaths -- Yahoo News/AP KABUL – A battle in western Afghanistan that included airstrikes killed dozens of Taliban militants after an insurgent ambush left three U.S. troops dead, an Afghan official said Sunday. Read more .... MIDDLE EAST Iran vows no ‘compromise’ on nuclear issue . Nuclear weapons against our religion. Back-to-back bombs...
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Renegade Eye (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Written by Patrick Larsen Thursday, 10 September 2009 The coup in Honduras and the stepping up of a US military presence in Colombia are serious warnings to the masses of Latin America. On top of this the present world economic crisis is having an impact on the Venezuelan economy. All this is posing very sharply the need for a turn to a genuine revolutionary programme on the part of the Bolivarian...
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Diplodemocracia (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
With the midst of tsunami of information unleashed by the institutional crisis in Honduras, the Chávez administration’s latest accelerated attack on the media has gone practically unnoticed. Given the events and announcements that have been occurring since last week, there is no doubt that Chávez and his executive band are getting ready to deliver freedom of expression in Venezuela...
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Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
I was talking with our housekeeper Fany this morning about an earthquake that hit Honduras the day before. In a non-negative way, she was saying how this is just another example of all that is happening in the world today. I made a joke, something to the effect of “El fin del mundo esta muy cerca!” She sort of shrugged and mentioned that she does think the end of the world may be not too...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
On May 28 at 2:24 a.m. local time, a deadly earthquake rocked Honduras, killing seven people and injuring several others, demolishing homes, damaging scores of other buildings, and sending terrified residents running through the streets.
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unmediated (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
How to verify a tweet | Twitter Journalism : Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn’t matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That’s because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com . If someone types the right keyword(s), they can find your tweet. Breaking Tweets prides itself on giving many different types of Twitterers credit for breaking news,...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Image 1: Satellite images pinpoint the collapse of the Democracy Bridge in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.Image 2: A Formosat-2 satellite image shows the location (marked in red) of the hotel where President Ma Ying-Jeou of Taiwan and his delegation were staying at the time of the earthquake. "There was no sign of a tsunami," notes Liu.Image 3: Because the epicenter of the earthquake was offshore,...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
The Honduran government declared on Tuesday a national emergency due to a series of earthquakes after the one measuring 7.1 on Richter scale that killed seven people on May 28. "The government has decided to declare a national emergency as a consequence of the earthquake and aftershocks in the country," said Honduran President's Private Secretary Enrique Reina in a press conference. The government...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/16/2009
An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale shook on Monday the Caribbean region of Honduras, causing no casualties or property damage. The tremor occurred at 10:00 a.m. local time and was felt in Roatan and Utila localities, both islands off the northern Honduran coast. The epicenter was located in the sea 56 km northeast of Roatan, with a depth of 6.1 km, a spokesman for the Permanent Commission...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
An earthquake of 5.7 magnitude at Richter Scale shook on Sunday midnight the Honduran Caribbean, without victims and material damages reported. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the epicenters was 30 kilometers northwest from La Ceiba (Caribbean) 125 kilometers to San Pedro Sula, the second most important city of Honduras. Permanent Commission of Contingences (Copeco) said Monday...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
An earthquake of 5.3 magnitude on the Richter scale shook Honduras in the early hours of Tuesday morning, just before the 39th general assembly of Organization of American States (OAS) began. There have been no reports of injuries or substantial physical damage. The quake hit at 00:43 a.m. local time (0643 GMT) with an epicenter 30.8 kilometers south of Caribbean coast town Tela, according to Johny...
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Nasa (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
The day after a powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook Honduras, Taiwan’s Formosat-2 satellite captured this detailed, photo-like image showing the collapsed span of the earthquake-damaged Democracy bridge.
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prit | 05/29/2009
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake was reported off the coast of Honduras An earthquake of magnitude 7.1, the Honduras, on Thursday, killing at least four, and caused the collapse of houses in the fall in the neighboring country of Guatemala. Learn more about the earthquake in 2009 as part of Honduras. The local authorities feared the death toll will rise even further in the reports of the moutainous near