31.   An earth tremor shook the area around Darwin in northern Australia on Monday, police said.

32.   The shooting shook the area around the Villa Hotel in the south of the battered Somali capital Monday morning, UN military spokesman Rich McDonald said.

33.   Newspapers noted that the Ikeja area was shaken in January by the explosion of an army munitions store, provoking fears that buildings might have been damaged structurally.

34.   Police and civil defence officials reported no casualties or damage caused by the tremors, which shook several areas of the city-state before dawn, the television said.

35.   Speaking via satellite phone from the worst-hit district of Nahrin in northern Baghlan province, he said powerful aftershocks continued to shake the area Wednesday morning.

36.   The area has been shaken by a series of smaller tremors since Wednesday, the agency said.

37.   The explosives were hurled nearby, shaking the area but not injuring anyone.