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EARTHQUAKE News, May 08, 2012

New quake-proof Raj Bhavan for Tripura, old one to be Tagore museum
New York Daily News
'The fear over quakes has increased in Tripura after the massive earthquakefollowed by tsunami that hit Japan March last year, claiming thousands of lives and causing all-round destruction. Tripura Governor DY Patil had himself expressed his keenness ...
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Chile quake, tsunami altered ecosystems dramatically
msnbc.com
The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that hit Chile struck off an area of the coast where 80 percent of the population lives. The massivequake triggered a tsunami reaching about 30 feet (10 meters) high that wreaked havoc on coastal communities : It killed ...
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msnbc.com
Quake costs blow deficit out to $6.1b
New Zealand Herald
That was primarily due to an increase in estimated earthquake costs, net of reinsurance, of about $500 million relating mainly to the December 23earthquake, the Treasury said. Finance Minister Bill English has already acknowledged a $1 billion ...
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Earthquake Lake Visitor Center to be renovated
Billings Gazette
17, 1959, earthquake that killed 28 people camping in the canyon. The 7.5-magnitude quake sheared tons of rock off the hillside opposite from where the center now stands, sending monstrous boulders crashing across the Madison River and up the opposite ...
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Nitish for campaign among people to build quake-resistant
IBNLive.com
PTI | 08:05 PM,May 08,2012 houses Patna, May 8 (PTI) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today called for carrying out an awareness campaign among the people to build quake-resistant houses for themselves to mitigate the impact ofearthquake.
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Japan Earthquake Today 2012 Strikes East of Honshu
LALATE
CORAL GABLES (LALATE) – A strong Japan earthquake 2012 today struck east of Honshu. The Japan earthquake today May 8, 2012 did not prompt a tsunami alert, officials confirm to news. The quake struck in the late evening hours.
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Quake home back where it belongs
TVNZ
The first Christchurch home to be moved off quake-damaged foundations under the partnership of Fletcher construction and the earthquakecommission has today been resettled back on its original site. The relocation marks the start of another phase of ...
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Phuket's quake homes face leaks
The Phuket News
Local resident Chum Niyompong's home is now facing water damage from unrepaired cracks caused by April's earthquake. More than 400 homes in Bangkham Village, in the Sri Soonthorn sub-district, have cracks in them following the quake on April 16.
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The Phuket News
Napier, New Zealand: An Art Deco phoenix risen from the ashes
Telegraph.co.uk
But in the small city of Napier in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's North Island, that is exactly what is said of one of the consequences of the massive quake that struck on the morning of February 3 1931. The earthquake – which measured 7.8 on...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Karen Scott rises from the rubble
Stuff.co.nz
... written a book if it hadn't been for the quake. A Christchurch woman has risen from the rubble. Karen Scott and her daughter were trapped when the back of the next-door building collapsed on to their High St cafe in last year's February earthquake.
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Stuff.co.nz
Sperm donor back to help quake recovery
Star Canterbury
The American working on the earthquake recovery who secretly donated sperm to at least 10 women has returned to New Zealand. Bill Johnson works for central city-based Ceres NZ, the international disaster relief company where he was based when reports ...
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News inaccurate on imminent powerful quake in Armenia – Emergency ministry
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
The news being spread with respect to a looming strong earthquake in Armenia is inaccurate, the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) informed. “We call upon people to maintain calm and ignore false information disseminated by fear mongers.
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Ships Could Provide Better Tsunami Warnings
Our Amazing Planet
As the research vessel Kilo Moana made its way from Hawaii to Guam in February 2010, Maule, Chile, was being struck by a magnitude-8.8earthquake. Minutes later, a tsunami generated by that quake came ashore, devastating Chilean coastal towns and ...
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New list of damages in earthquake aftermath declared
News.Az
New list of destroyed and damaged facilities in quake-affected Zagatala region was made public. First Deputy Head of Zagatala Region Executive Power, Chairman of Emergency Commission Elman Ramazanov told APA that according to the last calculations,...
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News.Az
Small quake hits Upper Blackfoot Valley
KPAX-TV
OVANDO- It doesn't look like anyone reported feeling the shake, but a smallearthquake did rattle the Upper Blackfoot Valley early Monday morning. The US Geological Survey reports the quake, which initially measured a 2.8 magnitude, happened just after ...
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Phuket's quake homes face leaks
The Phuket News
Local resident Chum Niyompong's home is now facing water damage from unrepaired cracks caused by April's earthquake. More than 400 homes in Bangkham Village, in the Sri Soonthorn sub-district, have cracks in them following the quake on April 16.
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The Phuket News
Christchurch, New Zealand: from natural disaster to divine inspiration
Telegraph.co.uk
Christchurch is to get a new cathedral and major new tourist attraction following last year's devastating earthquake. By Adrian Bridge It may not be Art Deco, but the "cardboard cathedral" that is about to emerge from the ashes in Christchurch will be ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
The Fukushima nuclear plant's slow recovery offers lessons to the US
The Guardian
While the structure of Reactor 4 is stable for the moment, the Dai-ichi plant lies miles from a big earthquake fault – as large as the one that caused last year's quake, but much closer to Fukushima. According to a study published in February (pdf) in ...
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The Guardian
Quake rates double but premiums down at Hiscox
ShareCast
Rates in reinsurance and catastrophe exposed lines, such as US property, continue to improve, says Hiscox, noting rates to insure against earthquakesin Japan have doubled since the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami of March 2011.
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Earthquake Study: Lima's "Big One" Won't Be Pretty
Worldcrunch
Already in 2012, Peru has registered 66 quakes, according to the Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP). On average, the coastal country – which is part of the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire – experiences between 150 and 170 temblors per year.
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Worldcrunch
Less than $2 million to repair pool
Stuff.co.nz
Repairing an earthquake-damaged Christchurch pool complex could cost ratepayers less than $2 million, a campaign group says. Save Centennial Pool, which has fought to retain the central city facility, last week received a Christchurch City ...
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2.9 Earthquake Rattles Desert Hot Springs
KMIR-TV
The largest, recorded at a magnitude-2.9, hit about 7 miles NE of Desert Hot Springs about 1:58 pm According to the US Geological Survey, a magnitude-2.2 tremblor hit the area first around 1:44 pm A third, smaller quake hit about a minute following the ...
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More than 100 aftershocks occurred in Azerbaijan for the day: over 1000 homes ...
Azerbaijan Business Center
An earthquake in Zagatala in the north-west of Azerbaijan and the surrounding regions continues for the second day. Gurban Yetirmishli, director of the National Seismological Service Center recorded over 100 aftershocks for the past day.
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Azerbaijan Business Center
Gaga kiss cup nets ¥6 million for quake relief
The Japan Times
Singer Lady Gaga raised ¥6 million as part of a US-sponsored effort to support Japan's recovery from last year's earthquake and tsunami by auctioning off a teacup with her autograph and a lipstick trace. Gaga's gift: US entertainer Lady Gaga drinks ...
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The Japan Times
UBC prof to study bridge seismic safety
Vancouver Sun
... has been awarded $260000 to evaluate the province's highway bridges forearthquake readiness. Dr. Shahria Alam, an assistant engineering professor at UBC's Okanagan campus, said many bridges in BC are inadequate to withstand an earth-quake, ...
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Japan's last nuclear power plant shuts down
Hydrogen Fuel News
By Bret Williams Over a year has passed since a magnitude 9.0earthquake rocked Japan and triggered a nuclear crisis that had the country on the edge of disaster for months. Last year's quake, and its subsequent tsunami, caused extensive damage to ...
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Hydrogen Fuel News
Japan disposes of 12.3% of quake-tsunami debris
Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has disposed of 12.3 percent of the debris created by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster in the three most heavily devastated prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima as of Monday, Environment Minister Goshi Hosono said ...
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Fire damages historic hotel in WA's Goldfields
ABC Online
Crews were unable to fight the blaze from inside the 1902 building due to structural damage caused by an earthquake in 2010. The Fire and Emergency Services Authority's Allen Gale says there was a lot of wood in the hotel, a lot of very dry fuel and ...
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Japan Earthquake Today 2012 Strikes East of Honshu
By lalate
CORAL GABLES (LALATE) – A strong Japan earthquake 2012 today struck east of Honshu. The Japan earthquake today May 8, 2012 did not prompt a tsunami alert, officials confirm to news. The quake struck in the late evening hours.
lalate news - America's Fastest...
News inaccurate on imminent powerful quake in Armenia ...
The quake was felt in Azerbaijan, too, and the epicenter was 115 kilometers—in direct line—from the Armenian order. “Prior to this earthquake [, however,] several minor shocks were recorded in the region on May 5-7. Three in Iran, two in ...
NEWS.am | News from Armenia
The New Madrid Fault – Overdue for Another Quake? - American ...
By APN
The possibility of a New Madrid quake has been and is currently under study by diverse agencies. One of which, the Mid-America Earthquake Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois has been analyzing the potential threat...
American Preppers Network
Sciency Thoughts: Earthquake in Burnley, Lancashire.
By Joe Bauwens
... the British Geological Survey recorded an Earthquake slightly to the northeast of Burnley in Lancashire, measuring 1.6 on the Richter Scale, at a depth of 17 km. Such a small quake at this depth is highly unlikely to have been felt, much less ...
Sciency Thoughts
Researcher warns Tokyo could be hit with a major earthquake ...
By The Extinction Protocol
They're tracking a very small earthquake, centered just outside of Tokyo. Sakai says small quakes like this happen about ten thousand times a year in Japan, and for geologists like him, even the small earthquakes are worth paying attention to.
The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond
Big quake, little destruction | Science News for Kids
Two large earthquakes, with magnitudes of 8.6 and 8.2, struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on April 11. Unlike the magnitude 9.1quake ...
www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/.../big-quake-little-destructi...
NASA's new earthquake monitoring network uses GPS for improved ...
NASA first tested the effectiveness of GPS tracking for measuringearthquakes in 2004 during a quake that hit Sumatra. [Image credit: Martin Luff]. (Source) ...
news.yahoo.com/.../nasa-earthquake-monitoring-network-uses...
4.7-magnitude quake strikes off Vancouver Island - British Columbia ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck about 200 kilometres west of Vancouver Island on Friday morning.
www.cbc.ca/news/.../bc-earthquake-vancouver-island.html
U.S. News - Moderate earthquake shakes Southern California
Updated at 3:07 p.m. ET: A moderate earthquake rattled Southern California on Saturday morning, shaking homes ... The quake, initially reported at magni …
usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_.../11446330-moderate-earthquake-s...
Swarm of IE Quakes "Purely Random" | NBC Los Angeles
An ongoing swarm of small earthquakes is rattling homes and nerves in the ...on- air/as-seen-on/Quake-Won't-Shake-California-Into-the-Ocean/149597385...
www.nbclosangeles.com/.../Small-Quakes-Keep-Rattling-Inlan...
Devore Quake: 3.8-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Inland Empire ...
DEVORE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A 3.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Southern California Saturday morning and experts tracked the quake's epicenter to the Inland ...
www.ktla.com/news/.../ktla-devore-earthquake,0,2121603.stor...
Magnitude 4.5 quake strikes rural Northern Calif. | www.ktvu.com
There are no reports of damage or injuries after a magnitude 4.5 earthquakerattled a rural area of Northern California.
www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/41-magnitude.../nNfjm/
Earthquake registering 3.8 strikes southern California - CNN
The epicenter of the quake was just outside Devore, in San Bernardino County near the San Andreas Fault. A magnitude 3.8 earthquake in southern California ...
articles.cnn.com/.../us_california-quake_1_major-damage-san-...
Earthquake Recap: Three Small Quakes Shake Up Santa Clara ...
A few tectonic tremors rattled the region from April 27 to May 2.
gilroy.patch.com/.../earthquake-recap-three-small-quakes-shak...
Rude Awakening: 3.8-Magnitude Quake Rattles Devore, Felt 60 ...
She clarified that the quake did not occur along the San Andreas fault. The USGS originally reported the earthquake at a magnitude 4.1 but later downsized that ...
losangeles.cbslocal.com/.../magnitude-4-1-quake-rumbles-thro...
Small but Widely Felt Quake Shakes Southern Calif - ABC News
Some Southern Californians were shaken out of bed Saturday morning by a small earthquake that rattled homes across the Inland Empire region and caused ...
abcnews.go.com/.../moderate-earthquake-shakes-southern-cali...
BBC News - Engineers launch artificial earthquakes at 'hospital'
Engineers in California unleash high-intensity artificial earthquakes on a ... to determine if hospitals built on rubber bearings could function after a quake.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17954352
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