News About Earthquake, Aid Worker, Animals, and Rave (Monday, March 16)

After the earthquake near Geelbroek, many damage reports were submitted to the wrong office. The Netherlands Institute of Mining Damage (IMG) received more than three hundred reports, of which about 30 percent were applicable there. The Mining Damage Committee received 132 reports after the earthquakes measuring 3.0 and 1.3.

The Dutch aid worker Pieter Wittenberg has passed away at the age of 78. Human Power reported this after he stopped his work last month. He helped boat refugees on Lesbos, but Greece prosecuted him and 23 others.

In January, the judge acquitted them after an eight-year battle. An unusually high number of large squid have been seen on Dutch beaches, says the Anemoon Foundation. On Texel, the first barred garden eel in the Netherlands died at Ecomare due to a worm infection.

These squid can grow to be 100 to 120 centimeters long. The police stopped an illegal rave during the night from Saturday to Sunday. The party was held at a closed camping site in Willemstad with hundreds of attendees.

After consultation with the mayor, the power was cut off and the police brought a generator. Afterwards, the visitors left and the police arrested no one.