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EARTHQUAKE News, Jan 31, 2012


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'Very minor' quake hits near McHenry
Chicago Tribune
A minor earthquake hit near northwest suburban McHenry last night, sending tiny tremors across the northern suburbs of Chicago, officials said. It registered a relatively small 2.4-magnitude just before 10 pm To be more precise, at 9:54:43 pm...
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Peru quake injury numbers rise
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- The number of people confirmed injured in an earthquake in Peru rose to 145, civil defense officials in the South American nation said Tuesday. The number of homes damaged or destroyed rose to 277, they said.
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Engineer defends quake-prone church decision
Stuff.co.nz
The Canterbury earthquakes royal commission heard evidence yesterday about the collapse of the Durham St Methodist Church in the February 22quake. Neil Stocker, Paul Dunlop and Scott Lucy died while recovering the church's pipe organ, after they were ...
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Prefabs rule at quake-prone schools
Stuff.co.nz
Hundreds of Wellington pupils will spend the year in temporary classrooms as the future of earthquake-prone school buildings is decided with the Education Ministry. Newtown School, Clyde Quay School and South Wellington Intermediate School will all...
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Stuff.co.nz
New quake system created / Researchers to be able to accurately predict ...
The Daily Yomiuri
A University of Tokyo research team has developed a system that will use a next-generation supercomputer to simultaneously predict tremors, tsunami and movements in the Earth's crust after a massive earthquake occurs. The team, led by Takuto Maeda, ...
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The Daily Yomiuri
Governor Patrick marks Haitian quake at State House ceremony
Boston.com
Governor Deval Patrick meets with members of the Haitian community to commemorate Haiti Earthquake Remembrance Month. By Patrick D. Rosso, Town Correspondent Governor Deval Patrick joined members of the Haitian community Monday morning at the State ...
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Quake concerns close Ashburton Hospital's operating theatre block
New Zealand Herald
I realise how inconvenient this closure is - however, we cannot continue to operate in this theatre given that we are still experiencing quakes and we know parts of the building are earthquake-prone," Mr Meates said. "I know many people travel from out ...
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Japanese aid worker returns to quake-hit Van
Today's Zaman
9, 2011, earthquake in Van, returned to the province on Monday to resume her aid efforts after she was recently discharged from a Japanese hospital. A member of Japan's Association for Aid and Relief, Konnai rushed to Turkey to help the survivors of a ...
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Today's Zaman
Did We Feel an Earthquake in Ocean County Last Night?
Patch.com
So was it an earthquake? Maybe, according the US Geological Survey. "I don't know if we could consider those credible, because it does seem too distant," she said, especially if the shaking was felt hours after the Virginiaquake.
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3.2 magnitude quake felt near Louisa
WAVY-TV
Geological Survey seismologists say a 3.2 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter near Louisa, Va . was felt Monday evening. The epicenter of thequake was five miles from Louisa and six miles from Mineral, the epicenter of the Aug. 23 earthquake.
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Images of the impact of quakes in Canterbury on December 23 - Source: ONE News
TVNZ
Just over 10000 earthquakes and aftershocks have hit the region since the first major shake in September over a year ago. According to the Christchurch quake map run by the University of Canterbury, the shake hit between Prebbleton and Halswell ...
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Update on quake commemorative services
Voxy
Christchurch City Council confirmed today that there will be an additional commemorative event that the public can attend to mark the 1st anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The 'Service to mark the 1st anniversary of the 2011 Christchurch ...
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Fingerprints of a Monster Quake
Washington Post
With the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid earthquakes this winter, scientists and emergency planners are asking: Could all this happen again? The New Madrid temblors knocked chimneys off log cabins in the wilderness and drowned passengers on ...
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Fund offers $2500 for quake-hit residents
MSN NZ News
Christchurch residents doing it tough following the city's devastating earthquakes are being invited to apply for up to $2500 from a new relief fund. The Mayor's Welfare EarthquakeRelief Fund will grant monetary assistance in a one-off deal.
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MSN NZ News
Suburbs Feel Small Earthquake
Patch.com
By Collin Czarnecki Homes and businesses in Chicago's northern suburbs felt the small 2.4 magnitude earthquake after it hit at 9:54 pm Monday, as reported by WGN. Its epicenter was about 11 miles west of Kenosha, Wis. and 14 miles northwest of Waukegan ...
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Insurers to join EQC quake assessments
MSN NZ News
Major differences in assessments of quake-damaged Christchurch properties - including estimates which vary by hundreds of thousands of dollars - has led to insurance companies joining forces with EarthquakeCommission assessors.
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Small earthquake near Wisconsin border
Chicago Sun-Times
The earthquake happened at 9:54 pm about 6 miles underground near Racine Wis., roughly 50 miles northwest of Chicago, said Shengzao Chen, a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey in Golden, Colo. The quakemeasured just 2.4 on the Richter scale ...
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Quake-Hit NZ Suburb to be Demolished
The Epoch Times
(Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) New Zealand is slated to demolish the first of the Christchurch suburbs too badly damaged in last year's earthquakes, according to media reports. The suburb of Bexley was severely damaged in the February and September ...
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The Epoch Times
Quake risk halts surgery in Ashburton
MSN NZ News
However, we cannot continue to operate in this theatre given that we are still experiencing quakes and we know parts of the building are earthquake-prone," Mr Meates said. Ashburton Hospital was working to contact patients booked for future operations.
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MSN NZ News
6 Earthquake Movies That Will Make You Fear The Ground You're On
Screen Junkies
... of a giant earthquake. Window washers fall to their deaths just outside Lorne Green's office in a simple scene that doesn't need to show the end result to make you twist inside as you contemplate the terror of that kind ofquake. “Aftershock”.
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Ashburton Hospital closes theatre
Stuff.co.nz
''We cannot continue to operate in this theatre, given that we are still experiencing quakes and we know parts of the building areearthquake-prone,'' he said. No theatre block staff would lose their jobs, Meates said.
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Stuff.co.nz
Rangiora bar closed over quake fears
Stuff.co.nz
Robbies Bar and Bistro in Rangiora has closed indefinitely after management was warned the building was earthquake-prone. Manager Mike McCutcheon said the business had closed today as a safety precaution after being issued a notice by the Waimakariri ...
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Ex-All Black's quake damaged home burgled
New Zealand Herald
Thieves have stolen memorabilia from the earthquake-damaged Christchurch home of former All Black Graeme Bachop. The halfback told the Press his Hillsborough home has been burgled four times over the past five months, the latest on January 25.
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New focus for quake-hit artist
Marlborough Express
Stronger medium: Artist Marilyn Bennett is experimenting with acrylic paints as a safer medium to display in earthquake city Christchurch. Works by Bennett are hanging on less shaky walls at the Yealands Estate Marlborough Art Gallery in Blenheim.
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Marlborough Express
Fairbanks hospital board aims to make building more earthquake-proof
TheNewsTribune.com
The old standard of "life safety" -- that a building could withstand collapse in a major quake -- has gradually been reconsidered throughout the US since the Northridge Earthquake struck Los Angeles in 1994. It caused massive damage to some buildings ...
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Quake fear prompts evaluations of public schools, power utility
Dominican Today
“One of the problems which most of the models of schools we're speaking of have, is that they were copied from Latino countries, but experience has already shown that where they have earthquakes, have collapsed, they've failed.
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Minor earthquake rumbles southeastern Wisconsin
WQOW TV News 18
By Amie Winters - bio | email Seismologists with the US Geological Survey say the 2.4 magnitude quake happened just before 10 pm Monday and was centered about 30 miles from Kenosha, just east of McHenry, Ill. WTMJ-AM reports several police departments ...
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Blogs6 new results for EARTHQUAKE, QUAKE
Magnitude 3.2 - VIRGINIA - U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake ...
By U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
USGS M 2.5+ Earthquakes
Activities Return To Normal In Ica Following 6.3 Quake : Peruvian ...
By cub
The earthquake occurred at 12:10 a.m. on Monday and its epicenter was 47 kilometers southwest of the city of Ica. Many of the residents spent the night in the street following the quake. The quake was felt in Lima, Ayacucho, Huancavelica and ...
Peruvian Times
Minor Earthquake Awakens Northwest Suburban Residents « CBS ...
By Adam Harrington
UPDATED 01/31/12 5:45 a.m.. WOODSTOCK, Ill. (CBS) — Residents of the far northwest suburbs were not dreaming last night – a minor earthquakeshook the Illinois-Wisconsin state line. The quake happened just before 10 p.m. Monday.
CBS Chicago
Did We Feel an Earthquake in Ocean County Last Night? - Berkeley ...
By Graelyn Brashear
Did We Feel an Earthquake in Ocean County Last Night? Residents in Barnegat, Brick and Point Pleasant reported shaking; USGS says there was a 3.2 quake in Virginia earlier in the evening. By Graelyn Brashear; Email the author; 9:50 am ...
Berkeley Patch
Prefabs rule at Wellington quake-prone schools | Stuff.co.nz
By Michelle Duff
Hundreds of Wellington pupils will spend the year in temporary classrooms as the future of earthquake-prone school buildings is decided with the Education Ministry. ... Prefabs rule at quake-prone schools. MICHELLE DUFF. Last updated ...
Stuff.co.nz - National
Did you feel the earthquake? — McHenry news, photos and events ...
By Heather Leszczewicz
Where the quake was felt (U.S. Geological Survey). Did you feel the earth move? Did your cabinets or china rattle? Did your pet act a little funny? A small earthquake hit the northern suburbs last night and was centered near McHenry.
TribLocal - McHenry
Latest News, Breaking News, IRAN Earthquake quake hurt more ...
IRAN Earthquake quake hurt more then 100 People TEHRAN: About 100 people were injured when an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit ...
www.epakistannews.com/iran-earthquake-quake-hurt-more-th...
Japan Earthquake 2012: Magnitude-5.5 Quake Rocks Eastern Japan
TOKYO — A magnitude-5.5 earthquake rattled Yamanashi prefecture in central Japan on Saturday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported.
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../japan-earthquake-2012-magnitud...
Second quake in 2 days rattles Greek islands
Out of the hundreds of quakes that occur every year, very few cause injuries or damage, although a strong earthquake on the outskirts of Athens in 1999 ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-27/.../1
Radio New Zealand : News : Christchurch Earthquake : Quake ...
Quake break over. Updated at 9:03 am on 23 January 2012. A magnitude 3.7 earthquake occurred in Canterbury at 2.59am on Monday. It was the first for almost ...
www.radionz.co.nz/news/canterbury.../quake-break-over
Peru Earthquake: Massive 6.3 Quake Hits Near Ica, Christian News
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has hit the coast of Peru early on Monday, causing minor injuries, according to local authorities.
www.christianpost.com/.../peru-earthquake-massive-6-3-quake...
Earthquake: 3.4 quake strikes near the Geysers - latimes.com
A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Thursday evening one mile from the Geysers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../earthquake-34-quake-strikes-near-...
Mexico Earthquake: 6.2-Magnitude Quake Hits Off Country's ...
The US Geological Survey is reporting that a 6.2-magnitude earthquakestruck off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas Saturday, shattering ...
www.inquisitr.com/.../mexico-earthquake-chiapas-tuxtla-gutier...
'Very minor' quake hits near McHenry
A minor earthquake hit near northwest suburban McHenry last night, ... at 9:54:43 pm Seismologists originally located the quake in the area of Lake ...
www.chicagotribune.com/.../chi-tiny-earthquake-hits-north-of...
Hawaii earthquake: Terror as magnitude 5 quake rocks Big Island ...
The quake struck near Kaena Point in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island at 4.36pm at a depth of five miles on Sunday.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Hawaii-earthquake-Terror-magnitude...
Small, Migrating Quakes Preceded Japan Megaquake | Japan 2011 ...
Small, slow earthquakes repeatedly ruptured and migrated along the faults where the major magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake struck Japan in March 2011.
www.ouramazingplanet.com/2304-slow-earthquakes-preceded...
Earthquakes Cannot be Predicted / Official Japanese Quake ...
If you've been watching the news the last few days, chances are you've heard about that researchers are now saying that Tokyo is facing a 70% chance of a 7.0 .
www.japanprobe.com/.../earthquakes-cannot-be-predicted-offi...
Quake hits northern Italy, no injuries reported
(Adds details, quotes) MILAN Jan 27 (Reuters) - An earthquake was felt across ... The last major earthquake to hit Italy was a 6.3 magnitude quakein the ...
www.reuters.com/.../earthquake-italy-idUSL5E8CR2WP20120...
  
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