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Earthquakes in Brazil? I

Posted in CITIES: São Paulo, EARTHQUAKES:, tagged , , on 23 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last night (22 April – Tuesday, 9:00 p.m. local time) an earthquake hit off the coast of São Paulo State. 5.2 on the Richter scale, which is kind of small time as earthquakes go, but for Brazil, this is an “attention getting”. It was felt in Rio, Santa Catarina and Paraná [...]

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Earthquakes in Brazil?

Posted in EARTHQUAKES:, tagged , , , , , , on 10 December, 2007 | 8 Comments »

On 9 December, Sunday, there was a 4.9 earthquake near Itacarambi, Minas Gerais, which is about 355 km north of Belo Horizonte. It actually damaged some homes in the area and unfortunately killed a five year old girl. This is the first death contributed to an earthquake since record keeping began in 1968.
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