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Azerspace: Azerbaijan's first satellite to be launched

Azerbaijan's first satellite Azerspace/Africasat-1a will be launched on 7 February 2013 with the Ariane 5 rocket from the spaceport in French Guiana.

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Publishing Date: 
Wed, 16/01/2013 - 16:35
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Satnews
latitude: 
40.435
longitude: 
49.8676
Processed on Jan 16th 2013

Azerbaijan creates a satellite system of earthquake prediction

The Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan intends to create a system of forecasting the earthquake sources.

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Publishing Date: 
Wed, 19/09/2012 - 14:12
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ABC
Processed on Sep 19th 2012

UNOOSA activates International Charter for Earthquake in Iran

Iran Earthquake

UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER has activated the International Charter: Space and Major Disaster to provide satellite imagery for the two strong earthquakes that occurred in Iran on 11 August 2012.

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Publishing Date: 
Thu, 16/08/2012 - 18:22
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International Charter Space & Major Disasters
latitude: 
38.322
longitude: 
46.888
Processed on Aug 16th 2012

Flood in Azerbaijan

Processed on May 11th 2010
Disaster Information
Name: 
Flood in Azerbaijan
Region: 
Kura River
Occurance Date: 
11/05/2010
latitude: 
40.9202
longitude: 
46.27

Heavy rains caused flooding in 40 districts surrounding the Kur (Kura), Azerbaijan's main river. 20,000 homes have been flooded, 300 of them ruined, and 2,000 fell into disrepair.

Flood in Azerbaijan

Floods in Azerbaijan

Processed on Oct 4th 2009
Disaster Information
Region: 
Azerbaijan
Occurance Date: 
21/09/2009

On 21 September 2009 heavy rainfall caused flooding of hundreds of houses and roads in central parts of Azerbaijan.

Floods in Azerbaijan