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A strong earthquake shook southern Mexico recently, causing panic and minor damage to buildings and prompting an oil refinery to shut down as a precaution. There were no reports of major damage or injuries.

The magnitude-6.4 quake was felt across hundreds of miles, gently swaying buildings in Mexico City and rocking parts of Mexico’s Gulf coast.

In Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas state, which Roswitha knows very well from her travels many people fled into the streets and then lingered outside their homes, fearing aftershocks.

Mexico’s state-run oil company Petroleos Mexicanos shut down its Salina Cruz refinery on the southern coast as a precaution immediately after the quake struck.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 70 miles southwest of Tuxtla Gutierrez, near the border between Oaxaca and Chiapas states.

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Lazy42:I understand what you are saying, but are not geologists able to estimate the probabilities of a certain level of earthquake within a period of time? For ex. could one say that there is a 60% probability that Istanbul would suffer a 6.0 or more magnitude earthquake within the next 20 years? This may not seem helpful, but I think these kinds of estimates are accepted by geologists. Do you think so?
They say the same thing about the San Andreas Fault Line in S. California.

Move to ban ruling Turkish party
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7297390.stm

A court in Istanbul has issued an order denying access to the video-sharing website YouTube. The state owned Turk Telecom implemented the ban today after an escalating dispute between Greek and Turkish users of the site.

The court order was issued yesterday and most internet users logging onto the site in Turkey are met with a holding page with a Turkish message, which translates as: “Access to this site has been denied by court order ! ...”.

Greek and Turkish YouTube users have been trading video insults over the past few months, attracting much coverage in the Turkish press. Greek videos reportedly accused the founding president of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, of homosexuality; a Turkish user responded by calling Greece the birthplace of homosexuality.

It is illegal to criticise either Ataturk or Turkishness in Turkey and the prosecutor’s office in Istanbul acted despite YouTube’s agreement to take down the offending videos.

Turkey wishes to join the EU in the next round of enlargement and has been criticised for its failure to safeguard freedom of expression. The country’s most famous author, Orhan Pamuk, faced up to three years in jail after being charged with “insulting Turkishness” after talking to a Swiss newspaper about Turkey’s human rights record. The case was dropped in January after international condemnation.

Nurten Altinok, the press prosecutor at the Istanbul Republican Chief Prosecutor’s Office, asked the Istanbul police to provide evidence of the criticisms of Ataturk on YouTube. After studying a CD of the videos she asked a magistrate to review the case, a court order was issued by an Istanbul criminal court yesterday.

A spokesman from the Turkish Embassy in London said: “The videos included parts which insulted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, our founding father. There is no explanation from the Turkish government, it was a court verdict. English profanities were placed on top of the Turkish flag and pictures of Ataturk.”

Videos posted on the user-generated site included a Greek marching song, which celebrated the bloody history between the two nations and labelled Turkey “Little Asia”.

Paul Doany, the head of Turk Telecom, the country’s largest internet provider explained: “We are not in the position of saying that what YouTube did was an insult, that it was right or wrong.”

He told the state-run Anatolia news agency: “A court decision was proposed to us, and we are doing what that court decision says.”

Some of the smaller private internet providers have not yet implemented the ban.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1483840.ece

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http://www.stopthetraffik.org/media/press130208.aspx

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The earthquake is not a precursor for the big one.
"If 20-30 earthquakes of a 5.0 magnitude or so begin to occur within a month, this could be considered as a precursor for a bigger earthquake."

Professor Şener ÃœşÃ¼mezsoy commented on yesterday's 4.8 earthquake, which shook the Marmara region: "the fault line which was broken is the bridge fault line between the Çınarcık fault line, which cracked in 1999 and the Gemlik fault line which broke in 2006. The theory I have been defending for years has been proven. Now, the earthquake will follow a path from Çınarcık to the south. The 'big one' expected in Istanbul may just be hype."

Big one moves away from Istanbul

Professor Şener ÃœşÃ¼mezsoy commented on the earthquake in Çınarcık: "the earthquake is moving away from Istanbul. There needs to be 20-30 earthquakes of 5.0 magnitudes to occur within a month to call it a precursor."

The 4.8 magnitude earthquake that took place in the Marmara, on Wednesday evening caused panic amongst citizens. Two following smaller earthquakes happened last night. The specialists think that this is not a precursor for a bigger earthquake. Professor Şener ÃœşÃ¼mezsoy stated that the 4.8 earthquake has refuted the possible scenario of a bigger earthquake in Istanbul. ÃœşÃ¼mezsoy stated: "The fault line, causing the recent earthquake is the bridge fault line between the Çınarcık fault line, which broke in 1999 and the Gemlik fault line, which broke in 2006. The western part of the broken fault line has cracked up to Esenköy. The Bozburun fault line continues to the southern part of İmralı. From now on, the fault line will take on a path directed south; which means not towards Istanbul."

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