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    Tue, May 21, 2013, 7:40 PM SGT - Singapore Markets closed

    8.7-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra

    An 8.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia 434 km southwest of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia.

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    1. Waves crash on tetrapods at a beach near Chubu Electric Power Co.
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    4. Wind turbines at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    5. A man walks on a sand dune in front of Chubu Electric Power Co.
    6. A worker stands on the top floor of the No.5 reactor building, as visitors are reflected in a window, at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    7. Workers stand beside a spent fuel pool on the top floor of the No.5 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
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    1. Waves crash on tetrapods at a beach near Chubu Electric Power Co.
    2. Chubu Electric Power Co.
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    4. Wind turbines at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    5. A man walks on a sand dune in front of Chubu Electric Power Co.
    6. A worker stands on the top floor of the No.5 reactor building, as visitors are reflected in a window, at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    7. Workers stand beside a spent fuel pool on the top floor of the No.5 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    8. A worker stands on the top floor of the No.5 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    9. Workers stand beside removable top shields for the reactor and a spent fuel pool on the top floor of the No.5 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    10. A control panel is seen in the central control room of the No.5 reactor at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    11. An employee works in the central control room of the No.5 reactor at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    12. Safety signs are seen in the No.5 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    13. An employee walks through an emergency electric panel room in the No.4 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    14. An employee walks through an emergency electric panel room in the No.4 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    15. An employee walks down a passageway in the No.4 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    16. An employee opens the watertight door of an emergency electric panel room in the No.4 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    17. A Good Design Award plate is seen as employees work in the central control room of the No.5 reactor at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    18. Display boards for visitors are seen in a viewing area for the central control room of the No.5 reactor at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    19. Visitors look at a full-scale mockup of Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station
    20. Workers open a strengthened door at the No.4 reactor building at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    21. A workers stands in front of a tsunami defence wall at Chubu Electric Power Co.
    22. A construction worker stands on an 18-meter high and 1.6 km long tsunami defense wall at Chubu Electric Power Co.
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    25. Electric car fast-charging network hits road bumps
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    29. The Washington Monument in scaffolding in Washington
    30. A scientist points to a seismograph that was recorded by an earthquake monitoring station in Strasbourg, France
    31. A scientist points to a seismograph that was recorded by an earthquake monitoring station in Strasbourg, France
    32. Nations sending highest remittances to India
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    38. Ottawa area rumbled by 5.2 magnitude quake
    39. Ottawa area rumbled by 5.2 magnitude quake
    40. Fashion designer Donna Karan poses for photographers during her visit to Little Haiti at the Discover Haiti Exhibition in Miami, Friday, May 17, 2013. Karan is among the designers and celebrities who
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    1. Waves crash on tetrapods at a beach near Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, May 17, 2013. Chubu Electric is spending at least $1.5 billion on safety upgrades at its Hamaoka nuclear plant southwest of the Japanese capital, to reduce the risk of a repetition of the disaster that hit Tokyo Electric's Fukushima station, when an earthquake and tsunami caused three reactor meltdowns. Picture ... more 
      Waves crash on tetrapods at a beach near Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, May 17, 2013. Chubu Electric is spending at least $1.5 billion on safety upgrades at its Hamaoka nuclear plant southwest of the Japanese capital, to reduce the risk of a repetition of the disaster that hit Tokyo Electric's Fukushima station, when an earthquake and tsunami caused three reactor meltdowns. Picture taken May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 24 OF 24 FOR PACKAGE 'JAPAN'S NUCLEAR TSUNAMI WALL' SEARCH 'HAMAOKA NUCLEAR' FOR ALL IMAGES less 

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