New Tremors Shake Sakhalin Island
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<i> Associated Press</i>
MOSCOW — A series of tremors shook Sakhalin Island just a day after rescuers ended their search for victims of an earthquake two weeks ago that killed more than 1,800 people, a news agency reported Saturday.
Interfax said a local seismic station had recorded 100 tremors, many of them tiny, since Friday. The strongest was a magnitude 4, it said.
The May quake was a magnitude 7.5 and wiped out the oil town of Neftegorsk on the northern end of the island in Russia’s Far East. Interfax said workers in Neftegorsk are now burying the rubble.
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