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EARTHQUAKE News, Jan 03, 2012

How fracking might have led to an Ohio earthquake
Christian Science Monitor
By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / January 2, 2012 The link between "fracking"-related activities and earthquakes was thrown into stark relief over the weekend when a magnitude 4.0 quake struck Youngstown, Ohio – typically not a hot bed of noticeable ...
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Holidaymakers brush off quake fears
Stuff.co.nz
"Nobody came to us and said, 'I'm going because of the earthquakes'." Monday's big quake was nearly a deal-breaker for the holiday plans of the Shaw and McColl families from Timaru. The two parties arrived at Spencer Park on Monday, but only after a ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Rebuilding life tough for quake-paralysed mums
Stuff.co.nz
Strangers before the quake, they are now good friends. Now out of hospital, and just back with their families, they are helping each other to adapt to living as a paraplegic. More than 182 people died from injuries when the earthquake struck, ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Christchurch relief as quakes move away
Sydney Morning Herald
Seismologists have confirmed earthquake aftershocks are slowly shifting away from Christchurch, easing the risk of any more sharp shakes across the city in coming days and weeks. In some much-needed good news, earthquake specialists say they are ...
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Chilean Engineer's Designs Help Santiago's Skyscrapers EndureEarthquakes
Bloomberg
Chile, with one of the most active earthquake faults in the world, is a fertile market for quake-resistant technology. Since 1960, when the country suffered a 9.5 magnitude quake, the largest ever recorded, Chile has steadily improved building codes to ...
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Bloomberg
Using old quake TV footage 'irresponsible'
Stuff.co.nz
Footage of past earthquake damage used in overseas media coverage of Christchurch's aftershocks is "irresponsible", Mayor Bob Parker says. Television news reports in Australia on Monday showed scenes of flooded streets and collapsed buildings, ...
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Earthquake: 3.9 temblor strikes off Southern California coast
Los Angeles Times
A shallow magnitude 3.9 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning four miles from San Nicolas Island, according to the US Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:18 am PST at a depth of 10.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 50 miles ...
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Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes off Japan Coast
Insurance Journal
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck under the sea several hundred miles (kilometers) south of Japan on Sunday, shaking buildings in the capital, but officials said there was no danger of a tsunami. The quake struck near the ...
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Guam Earthquake Today Marks Strongest Quake Recently in Region
LALATE
The Guam earthquake today struck in the predawn hours Wednesday. The quake was roughly eight-five miles south east of Hagatna, Guam, USGS indicates to news. Thequake also had a moderate depth. USGS reports to news that the quake's epicenter was ...
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Quake upgrades lift for capital builders
Stuff.co.nz
A building industry report says that while Canterbury's $20 billion rebuild will be the epicentre for coming work, there is also plenty of work looming in Wellington, where many buildings need earthquake strengthening. "Some building owners have ...
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Quake, rattle and roll in Sublette scenario
Sublette Examiner
... magnitude earthquake scenario on the Greys River Fault. Their report states that Pinedale and La Barge, both about 55 miles from the quake's epicenter, would receive “very light damage” while Bondurant and Hoback would be subject to “light damage. ...
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Magnitude 3.2 Quake Hits Eastern Oklahoma
KHBS-KHOG Northwest Arkansas
The US Geological Survey said a magnitude 3.2 earthquake caused an early-morning rumble near Prague. The quake hit just before 5 am Tuesday and its epicenter was five miles north-northwest of Prague and seven miles southeast of Sparks. ...
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Haiti After the Quake
CounterPunch
SUBSCRIBE NOW. by BILL QUIGLEY and AMBER RAMANAUSKAS Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, 2010. Hundreds of thousands were killed and many more wounded. ...
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How fracking caused an Ohio earthquake
Christian Science Monitor
By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / January 2, 2012 The link between "fracking" andearthquakes was thrown into stark relief over the weekend when a magnitude 4.0quake struck Youngstown, Ohio – typically not a hot bed of noticeable seismic activity....
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Hirata: 'Quake made me surrender' / Says devastating scenes made him question ...
The Daily Yomiuri
Makoto Hirata, the former member of the Aum Supreme Truth cult who turned himself in to police Saturday, said he felt ashamed living as a fugitive after witnessing scenes of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, according to police and a lawyer who ...
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Minister welcomes planned quake briefing
Radio New Zealand
Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee says he welcomes information about the Canterbury quakes being made public from a planned briefing with scientists. Christchurch mayor Bob Parker says the city council will meet with GNS scientists on Friday ...
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Will 2012 be a year of many earthquakes?
Mother Nature Network
(Photo: ZUMA Press) From the massive and disastrous temblor that struck Japan to the surprising East Coast quake, 2011 has been quite a year forearthquakes. WorldShares lets you earn donations for your favorite nonprofit. Earn up to 20 points now. ...
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Christchurch respite as quakes move away
Sky News Australia
Seismologists have confirmed earthquake aftershocks are slowly shifting away from Christchurch, easing the risk of any more sharp shakes across the city in coming days and weeks. In some much-needed good news, earthquake specialists say they are ...
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Ice Quake (Blu-ray)
Fox 31 KDVR.com
After THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE set this formula (to huge financial success), movie theaters were hit with meteors, earthquakes and volcanoes in such lavish epics as 1979's METEOR, 1974's EARTHQUAKE and 1980's WHEN TIME RAN OUT… while the small screen ...
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Quake preparedness consultant seeks to save homes
San Francisco Chronicle
He started doing remodeling and home-addition jobs, but an interest in making his own house safer led to a specialty in earthquake preparedness ( www.quakeprepare.com). Guillot, 68, lives in Angwin, in upper Napa Valley, with his wife, Sara. ...
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Indonesia, NZ, Japan welcome 2012 with a jolt
Emirates 24/7
(AFP) A 5.3-magnitude earthquake rattled the northern tip of Indonesia Monday, geologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake struck at a shallow depth of one kilometre (just over half a mile) around 160 kms (100 miles) ...
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Emirates 24/7
Researchers closer to 'sizing up' quake events ahead
Hindu Business Line
Scientists from the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and the US Geological Survey have devised a method to record p-waves, seismic shocks that preclude an earthquake, by several seconds to up to a minute. They don't predict quake in terms of exact ...
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Hindu Business Line
Do you think fracking causes earthquakes?
Wheeling Intelligencer
The uptick in earthquakes worldwide is due to global warming.They will intensify as will the odd weather patterns. So I may take a year to calm the earth's rumblings.. Fracking or injecting waste water, possibly or most likely. Serious quakes 4.5 or ...
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3.9 Quake Hits Off California Coast
KESQ
A small earthquake struck in the Pacific off the Southland coast today, according to a preliminary report from the US Geological Survey. The 3.9-magnitude temblor hit at 6:18 am at a depth of around 10.5 miles, its epicenter four miles east of San ...
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CANYON LAKE: Museum curator to speak on earthquakes
Press-Enterprise
Attendees will learn where the fault is, why it is there, how it has sculpted our environment and how it might affect our lives in a large quake. “I am a strong advocate for earthquake awareness through a science-based discussion about the San Andreas...
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Masons trained to retrofit for quake resilience
Kuensel, Buhutan's National Newspaper
... allowing its residents to escape in case of a quake,” BSB's executive engineer Karma Wangdi explained. He said a study, done after the 2009earthquake that hit eastern Bhutan, found that most of the typical two-storeyed traditional houses in the ...
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Kuensel, Buhutan's National Newspaper
Vidya Balan escapes earthquake in New Zealand
Digital Spy
After they arrived at Queenstown, they got to know about the earthquake in Christchurch," a source explained. "The first quake measured 5.8 on the Richter scale and the second tremor came 80 minutes later and measured 5.3. Needless to say, not only ...
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Confirmed: Fracking caused Ohio earthquakes — RT
By RT
Ohio lawmakers have put a temporary ban on fracking after experts say it is certain that recent fracking in the Buckeye State caused an outbreak of earthquakes.
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Oil-Drilling Wastewater Seen Causing Earthquake | KOSU Radio
By KOSU News
A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor earthquakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday. Research ...
KOSU Radio
Earthquake Shakes East Central Oklahoma Early Tuesday ...
By Associated Press
A 5.6 magnitude quake, the strongest ever recorded in Oklahoma, shook the state November 5, 2011. That quake damaged dozens of homes, buckled a highway and caused other damage. A number of smaller earthquakes have been ...
NEWS ON 6 - News
Fuel Fix » Expert: Wastewater well in Ohio triggered quakes
By Associated Press
But they also stressed that injection wells are different from drilling wells that employ fracking. Armbruster said Monday he expects more quakes will occur despite the shutdown of the Youngstown well. “The earthquakes will trickle on as a kind ...
Fuel Fix
Natural gas fracking has new PR problem - Earthquakes
By Editor@EnviroPolitics.com (Frank Brill)
The Christian Science Monitor in How fracking caused an Ohio earthquake notes that the quake was not caused by fracking wells themselves but apparently by an well used to inject waste fluids from the fracking process back into porous rock ...
EnviroPolitics Blog
Magnitude 3.2 Quake Shakes Eastern Oklahoma - Oklahoma City ...
A 5.6 magnitude quake, the strongest ever recorded in Oklahoma, shook the state Nov. 5. That quake damaged dozens of homes, buckled a highway and caused other damage. A number of smaller earthquakes have been recorded since ...
KOCO.com - Local News
Disposal Halted at Well After New Quake in Ohio
The latest quake, the 11th since mid-March, occurred Saturday afternoon and ... Similar links between disposal wells and earthquakes have been suspected in ...
www.nytimes.com/.../youngstown-injection-well-stays-shut-aft...
New Zealand Earthquake: Christchurch Quake Is 5.8 Magnitude And ...
A series of strong earthquakes have hit the city of Christchurch in New Zealand, causing structural damage and some minor injuries.
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16135934
Japan earthquake: Force 7 quake shakes Tokyo hours ... - Daily Mail
The quake, which measured 4 in central Tokyo, Fukushima and their surrounding areas, struck 217 miles below the sea surface at 2.28pm (5.27am GMT).
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Japan-earthquake-Force-7-quake-sha...
Earthquake: 3.1 quake strikes near Joshua Tree - latimes.com
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Monday morning eight miles from Joshua Tree, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/.../earthquake-joshua-tree.html
4.0 quake hits Youngstown, Ohio. Yes, Ohio
Hadn't felt previous ten earthquakes ... but this one was big!" The USGS says that the region is no stranger to quakes, though they are indeed rare. ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../40-magnitude-quake-hits-youngst...
Strong quake rocks Japan; no damage reported
The earthquake was centered near Japan's Izu Islands, about 307 miles south-southwest of Tokyo, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake struck at a ...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQAtCRfTP_story.html
Daily Kos: Breaking: 4th Big Quake Just Hit - Earthquake in ...
There has been a large earthquake in Christchurch this afternoon. The quake was described as "violent" by Herald reporter Jarrod Booker who was in his ...
www.dailykos.com/.../-Breaking:-4th-Big-Quake-Just-Hit-Eart...
4.2 magnitude earthquake reported north of Christchurch, NZ – 5.3 ...
GNS Science received reports the quake was felt in Havelock, Maraetai Bay, Picton, Te Aro, Newton, and Churton Park. The earthquake was centered 30km ...
theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/.../4-2-magnitude-earthq...
McDonald, Ohio Earthquake: 4.0 Quake Felt Near Youngstown ...
McDONALD, Ohio (AP) — Officials say they believe the latest earthquake activity in northeast Ohio is related to the injection of wastewater into the ground near a ...
jibambe.com/.../mcdonald-ohio-earthquake-4-0-quake-felt-ne...
Christchurch earthquake: 5.9 quake hits New Zealand
An earthquake of 5.8 magnitude struck near the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday, the U.S..
www.vancouversun.com/news/Christchurch.../story.html
Japan earthquake: 6.8 quake rattles Tokyo, but no damage
A 6.8 earthquake rattled Tokyo and other cities on Sunday, but not enough to cause major damage. The quake's epicenter was some 200 miles under the sea, ...
slatest.slate.com/.../japan_earthquake_6_8_quake_rattles_toky...
Mar, Japan earthquake: Quake and tsunami May, U.S. housing ...
GRAPHIC NEWS. Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images. Mar, Japan earthquake:Quake and tsunami leave 22000 dead or missing and trigger world's ...
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