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EARTHQUAKE News, Dec 22, 2011

Small Earthquake Hits Near Charleston
WYFF Greenville
College of Charleston geology professor Erin Beutel says this month's earlierquake measured 2.2 and was recorded Dec. 7. Beutel says Wednesday's quakewas recorded by seismic equipment in Summerville, New Hope and Simpsonville.
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Quebec residents near earthquake claims deadline
CBC.ca
Quebec residents have until Friday to submit claims to the province for damage caused by the 5.2-magnitude earthquake 18 months ago. The June 2010 quake south of Echo Lake, Que., 60 kilometres north of Ottawa near the Ontario border, was felt across ...
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CBC.ca
ADB completes $1 bn rebuilding projects in quake-hit areas
The News International
The government, he said, allocated Rs10 billion for earthquake affected areas incurrent fiscal year against demand of over Rs50 billion and so far in first six months (July-Dec) period, the released amount was just Rs1.5 billion. ...
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Japan Quake Boosted Prices: Honda Fit Up Nearly 6%
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March disrupted the country's auto industry and cut the supply of many vehicles. Production in Japan during the second quarter fell to less than half of its output the year before. For some models the resulting ...
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New Madrid Quake Cost = $110 Billion Impact Today AIR Reports
Insurance Journal
To mark the anniversary AIR has released a report entitled, “The New MadridEarthquake Bicentennial: Revisiting A Midwest Mystery,” which describes the research community's current understanding of what happened and outlines the financial implications ...
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Turkey: Post-Earthquake, How Easy to Stop Substandard Construction?
EurasiaNet
Nearly 650 people lost their lives in the earthquake that struck the southeastern region of Van on October 23, and a subsequent smaller quake on November 10. With some 35000 buildings damaged or destroyed, the two tremors exposed Turkey's decades-old ...
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Gov. McDonnell Asking FEMA For More Earthquake Aid
WRIC
"Our damage assessment teams found more than 130 homes in other localities with major damages, including two homes that were destroyed by the quake." Louisa County, where the earthquake was centered, was approved for Individual Assistance on Nov. ...
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Editorial: Quake city still battling aftershocks
Hawke's Bay Today
The earthquake hit at 12.51pm on a Tuesday. In our newsroom, we watched the drama unfold on television news feeds. It quickly became apparent that the garden city was in the throes of a natural disaster on a scale not seen in New Zealand for decades. ...
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Quake puts back revamp by year
The Press
The museum is in line for a $68.7 million revamp but has deferred the bulk of the work to the 2013-14 financial year because of the February 22 earthquake. "Theearthquake has meant that we didn't progress in this last year as we'd intended," director ...
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Cera insists on building safety checks
The Press
No buildings have been closed as result of the engineering notices yet, but this could be because 366 of the notices have gone to buildings that remain unoccupied after the February 22 quake. So far, 90 building owners have supplied engineering reports ...
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Beech Hill Elementary Near Epicenter of Wednesday Quake
Patch.com
According to the survey's "Did You Feel It?" section, 137 people surrounding the epicenter reported the quake. This is the second earthquake in a month in the Summerville area, which sits on the active Middleton fault. According to SC Emergency ...
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5.7 quake strikes near Kermadecs
Stuff.co.nz
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake off the east coast of New Zealand was felt in Auckland and Te Puke early this morning. The quake struck at 2.37am, 650 km north-east of Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty, GeoNet reported. People in Auckland and Te Puke told ...
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Quake letters send tremors
Manawatu Standard
LawyersJust two weeks before the Christmas break, owners of buildings in Feilding's CBD were stunned to receive letters from Manawatu District Council giving them six months to appeal against the new earthquake ratings given to their buildings and ten ...
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Jobs boom tipped for quake rebuild
MSN NZ News
An extra 36000 workers will be needed at the height of the Canterbury earthquakerebuild programme, according to a new report. The bulk of the new jobs, an estimated 23900, will be in the construction sector while a further 12000 will be needed in ...
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Japan Aims for 2% Growth in Creating Post-Quake Innovation Zones
Bloomberg
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's government will aim for 2 percent real growth until fiscal 2020 by creating special economic zones as the country recovers from the March 11 earthquake and nuclear disaster. The government will set up seven such ...
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Dalai Lama Weeps for Japan's Quake Victims as Golfers Play On: Pico Iyer
Bloomberg
Almost eight months after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, the sense of devastation was hard to bear. An old wooden temple still stood firm against a hill, but the gravestones in front of it were broken or tilting over. Tidy boxed remains of the ...
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Bloomberg
Officials delayed repairs
The Press
The impact of the February earthquake was about 10 times worse than the September 2010 quake in terms of cost, delays in restoring the network and customer "minutes" lost. February's quake, which killed 182 people, cost Orion $40m, compared with $4m ...
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Quake work in Ashburton starts to flow
The Ashburton Guardian
By Sue Newman December 23 2011 It might take three years to clear theearthquake repair work backlog in Ashburton, but that's three years of opportunities for tradesmen in the Ashburton District says Rolleston hub project manager Richard Vance. ...
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Top 100 Stories of 2011: #7: Japan Quakes; Nuke Power Stays Steady | DISCOVER
Bayoubuzz
Last March, after the Sendai earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the aftershocks of the disaster seemed to put the worldwide nuclear power industry on shaky ground. News of multiple core meltdowns and radiation ...
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Demolition companies pitch in to help children of quake victims
The Press
... 22 earthquake will get an extra Christmas present this year, courtesy of Canterbury's demolition companies. The group of contractors donated $25000 to Variety – The Children's Charity, to be given to children who lost family members in the quake. ...
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The Press
Panama gets six pre-Christmas quakes in four days
Newsroom Panama
Panama has been subjected to six pre-Christmas earthquakes this week with thelatest A 4.5 tremor on the Richter scale on Wednesday December 21. The quakewas recorded at 11:36 am local time with the Pacific Ocean epicenter at coordinates 7.41 degrees ...
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10 biggest world news stories of 2011
kypost.com
NEW ZEALAND EARTHQUAKE: Collapsed buildings and debris were left in Christchurch, New Zealand after a 6.3-magnitude earthquakerocked the region on February 22. The quake caused widespread damage and left 181 people dead. 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER ...
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kypost.com
Earthquake shaker for Perthshire
Scotsman
AN EARTHQUAKE has hit Perthshire in the latest of a series of tremors to affect Scotland. The 1.6-magnitude tremor was recorded at 6:40am yesterday by the British Geological Survey at Blackford, south of Crieff, at a depth of 5km. ...
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Safety fears for new uranium customer
Sydney Morning Herald
From 1985 to 2005, there were 92 earthquakes in the area, the largest being a 6.3-magnitude quake in 1993. A research paper published last month by Roger Bilham, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado, said: ''If stress in the ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Praise out of doors, but still under cover
The Press
The earthquakes damaged or destroyed many churches, including the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals. St Barnabas Church in Fendalton has erected a marquee in the grounds for its Christmas services. The church was badly damaged in the quakes and needs...
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The Press
Japan tsunami debris hitting BC shores
National Post (blog)
A new explosion at a nuclear plant in nearby Fukushima prefecture hit punch-drunk Japan on March 14 as it raced to avert a reactor meltdown after a quake-tsunami disaster that is feared to have killed more than 10000 people. ...
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National Post (blog)
Auckland Christmas for Christchurch quake family
The Aucklander
Just because you can't see damage, doesn't mean the roof won't fall down with the next quake." She says the constant aftershocks and broken sleep were terrible and within a week of the February earthquake she moved her family, first to Temuka to stay ...
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What can you do about school and earthquake safety?
California Watch
It's imperative to be prepared and understand the basic science of quakes, especially when it comes to the safety of the more than 6 million children in California public schools. The most damaging California earthquakes in the lastseveral decades ...
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Top 100 Stories of 2011: #9: The Year's Worst Natural Disasters | DISCOVER
Bayoubuzz
NEW ZEALAND///EARTHQUAKE With an epicenter 6 miles from downtown, the Christchurch quake in February took 181 lives and caused $12 billion in damages despite having a magnitude of just 6.3. JAPAN///EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI In March, Sendai was rocked by ...
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W&M Blogs » All Shook Up! The 2011 Virginia Earthquake
By Chuck Bailey
What makes this quake special is that it was the largest quake to rock the eastern United States in over a century and was felt by more people than any other quakein U.S. history. At the recent American Geophysical Union meeting, Shao and ...
W&M Blogs
CHARLESTON, S.C. | SC residents, geologists report 2.6 earthquake
An earthquake that registered a magnitude of 2.6 shook residents near Charleston but no damage has been reported. ... 7. Beutel says Wednesday's quake was recorded by seismic equipment in Summerville, New Hope and Simpsonville. ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com...
SC residents, geologists report 2.6 earthquake
College of Charleston geology professor Erin Beutel says this month's earlierquake measured 2.2 and was recorded Dec. 7. ... The newspaper says some residents in Summerville reported they felt the small earthquake. The report said the quake is the second this month from the underground fault responsible for the 1886 ... Beutel says Wednesday's quake was recorded by seismic equipment in Summerville, New Hope and Simpsonville. (Copyright 2011, The Associated Press)...
News 12 - Top Stories and Breaking News
GeoNet – New Zealand Earthquake Report - Dec 18 2011 at 3:19 ...
The GeoNet Project - Monitoring geological hazards in New Zealand.
www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/3628757g.html
BBC News - Papua New Guinea hit by 7.1 magnitude earthquake
A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck the Pacific state of Papua NewGuinea, but no tsunami warnings have been issued. The quake struck 89km (55 ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16173888
Radio New Zealand : News : Christchurch Earthquake : Quake risk ...
Quake risk closes Akaroa's cottage hospital. Updated at 5:52 pm on 12 December 2011. Canterbury District Health Board says Akaroa Hospital has been closed ...
www.radionz.co.nz/.../quake-risk-closes-akaroa's-cottage-hosp...
2 centuries after New Madrid quakes, what's next?
Stein contends the many small earthquakes that occur today in the New Madrid zone are mere aftershocks of the past large quakes — not harbingers of future ...
www.google.com/.../ALeqM5iznuwfN8DVvCZPGfxefynoSv...
New Study Calculated How Serious Fracking-Induced Earthquakes ...
We already know that hydraulic fracturing—the process of injecting millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep into the earth to exploit the natural gas ...
ecocentric.blogs.time.com/.../fracking-sizing-up-the-quakes-th...
Papua New Guinea Rattled By 7.3 Earthquake | Stuff.co.nz
Papua New Guinea often experiences earthquakes, but today's quake was the first over magnitude 7 since 2005, according to the US Geological Survey. ...
www.stuff.co.nz/.../7-3-earthquake-rattles-Papua-New-Guinea
Magnitude 6.3 - SOUTH OF THE KERMADEC ISLANDS
1107 km (687 miles) NNE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand. Location ... RecentActivity At This Location; Earthquake Location Maps ... A quake just happened…...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.../Quakes/usc000770k.html
2 Centuries After New Madrid Quakes, What's Next? - ABC News
Stein contends the many small earthquakes that occur today in the New Madrid zone are mere aftershocks of the past large quakes — not harbingers of future ...
abcnews.go.com/US/.../centuries-madrid-quakes-15171609
1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes Bicentennial - New Madrid ...
Series of huge tremors occurred 200 years ago; New Madrid quakes likely to come again. Two centuries ago Friday, the first of three powerful earthquakesalong ...
newmadrid2011.org/index.php?option...
Japan Meteorological Agency | Earthquake Information
Earthquakes within the last week. [Information on seismic intensity at each site] The map and text below show a) the observed Seismic Intensity (1 and above) ...
www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20111221151010391-211504.html
Earthquake Perspective on the Anniversary of the New Madrid Quakes
Bearing in mind RMS's estimates of the potential damage caused by a 6.0 quakeat the New Madrid zone, it's chilling to think what a much bigger quake would ...
www.insurancetech.com/blogs/232300651
Big quakes no more likely than in past: study
The deadly 9.0 earthquake this year in Japan, an 8.8 quake in Chile last year and the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake that registered 9.0 on the moment ...
www.google.com/.../ALeqM5h1VD9nNU-UlivNnn7_ODjlX...
Earthquake: 3.2 quake hits near Pinnacles
In the last 10 days, there have been two earthquakes magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby. Read more about California earthquakes on LA Now. ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/.../quake-near-pinnacles.html
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