Search Results for 'Earthquakes'

Engineers launch artificial earthquakes at 'hospital'

The mock hospital has been built on a giant "shake table" which can subject the building to movements similar to real earthquakes. The tests are designed to determine if hospitals built on rubber bearings could function after a [...]

Posted On : May, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Fracking for gas allowed in UK despite earthquakes

Fracking, the controversial natural gas extraction technique which sometimes causes earthquakes, can go ahead in Britain – but only with tight restrictions on the process, a panel of independent scientists will tell the Government t [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Earthquakes linked to oilpatch activity

CALGARY - Provincial regulators and petroleum producers in Western Canada are waiting with keen interest on the results of several studies looking into possible links between industry activity and an increase in minor earthquakes. Whil [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Japanese experts warn of earthquakes that could produce 34-m...

Much of Japan's Pacific coast would be inundated by a tsunami more than 34 metres (112 feet) high if an offshore earthquake as powerful as last year's occurred, according to a government panel of experts. They report that a wave o [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Marmageddon: Earthquakes hit New Zealand's Marmite supply

In a culinary crisis that has been dubbed "Marmageddon", the country's only Marmite factory in Christchurch closed in November due to earthquake damage and will not resume production of the thick, black savoury concoction un [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 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 [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Youngtown earthquakes raise issues on oilfield wastes from s...

A New Year's Eve earthquake that shook homes in Youngstown has set off political tremors across Ohio as officials scramble to reassure the public that an expected flurry of drilling in the state won't jeopardize their safety. C [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Ohio Earthquakes Spark Drilling Controversy

Youngstown, Ohio, had a rockin’ New Year’s Eve, but not the kind it hoped for—a 4.0 magnitude earthquake shook the city just one week after a 2.7 magnitude earthquake hit. Fortunately, there was no significant damage or [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Earthquakes redefine schools' priorities

When the 2011 school year began, teachers were threatening to go on strike over pay, early-childhood education centres were grappling with funding cuts and some primary schools were refusing to implement the national standards. T [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Oklahoma Continues String of Recent Mild Earthquakes

The generally placid, well-mannered state of Oklahoma has developed a very West Coast habit of late: the state, it seems, has got the shakes. Oklahoma has been hit by nine earthquakes since last Monday, most of them concentrated in the ar [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Multiple earthquakes felt across Oklahoma, region

At least three earthquakes shook much of central Oklahoma early Saturday, rousing people from their sleep as far away as Kansas City, Mo. A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck at 2:12 a.m., with an epicenter about six miles north of Prague in [...]

Posted On : Nov, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Earthquakes have a bigger health toll than other disasters?

There are more than a million earthquakes, of varying severity, around the world each year. As well as the immediate deaths, many people receive serious injuries which cannot be treated because of the quake damage to infrastructure. The L [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Timeline: World's recent major earthquakes

Here is a timeline of major earthquakes in Turkey since World War Two. December 26, 1939 - Around 32,700 people die in the eastern city of Erzincan after a quake of 7.8 magnitude. December 20, 1942 - About 1,100 people are killed and 5,00 [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Earthquakes hit California, Cuba and Japan

As if we haven’t been shaken and stirred enough lately, three separate earthquakes hit California, Cuba and Japan on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. California’s earthquake was a puny magnitude 3.5 (the recent quake in t [...]