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Earthquake in Japan: Strong tremor felt but no apparent dama...

TOKYO: A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. A magnitude-6.8 earthquake first struck the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

5.4 intensity earthquake jolts KP

PESHAWAR: An earthquake of moderate magnitude measuring 5.4 on the Richter Scale was felt in most parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday morning, an official of the Local Meteorological Office said. The tremors jolted Peshawar, Malakand, S [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

JAPAN ONE YEAR AFTER ITS EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI

Michael Hanlon has analysed media coverage of the earthquake and tsunami which hit Japan in 2011. He says the media quickly switched its attention from an earthquake which killed tens of thousands of people to the nuclear incident at Fuku [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes China

An earthquake has struck the far west of China but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The US Geological Survey said Friday that the magnitude 5.8 quake struck about 7 a.m. (local time) in the southern part of Xinjiang [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

4.6-magnitude earthquake rattles Haitians: no immediate repo...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A moderate earthquake has rattled southern Haiti, causing some people to run out of buildings in fear. There were no immediate reports of damage. The United States Geological Survey is reporting that the magn [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Intensity 6 earthquake injures 8 in Masbate

AN Intensity 6 earthquake jolted Masbate on Tuesday, shattering the window glasses of at least two buildings and injuring eight people hit by broken glass, police and disaster officials said. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Manag [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Philippines rocked by earthquake

A moderately strong earthquake has cracked buildings and knocked televisions and glassware from tables in a central Philippine province, injuring at least five people and sending others rushing outside in panic, officials said. Renato Sol [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Senate earthquake should change state budget landscape

THE passage of a Republican budget out of the Washington State Senate with a majority of Democrats amounts to a political earthquake not seen in 25 years. Events like this do not happen without cause and cannot be talked into going away. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

Japan's Post-Fukushima Earthquake Health Woes Go Beyond Radi...

After the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, worry about the unfolding nuclear accident quickly commandeered international headlines. Even after the situation was brought und [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Salinas

A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Thursday morning near Salinas, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:31 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 3.1 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 10 mi [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Strong earthquake shakes Siberia, Taiwan

MOSCOW: A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 shook several republics in Russia’s southwestern Siberia on Sunday but caused no casualties or serious damage, the emergencies ministry said. In Siberia, the tremor, which occurred at 1:20 p [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2012 | Comments : 0

Missouri earthquake shakes nine states

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Just days after the 200th anniversary of a series of massive earthquakes in southeast Missouri, residents woke up Tuesday to a rumbling reminder that they live in one of the continent's most active seismic areas [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

New Zealand earthquake: final victims laid to rest as countr...

In a simple, private ceremony the four, whose identities are known but who could not be formally identified, were interred in a single coffin in the city's Avonhead cemetery. They had all been in the city centre CTV building when it c [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

‘Cloaking’ against earthquakes

While the idea of an invisible cloak reminds us of Harry Potter, “cloaking” technology actually exists in real life as well. Recently scientists have demonstrated various experimental cloaking systems that prevent small object [...]