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EARTHQUAKE News, Jan 04, 2012

Ohio quake linked to wastewater well
USA TODAY
On New Year's Eve, a magnitude-4.0 quake outside Youngstown, Ohio, shook the ground as far north as Toronto. Earthquake experts tied the event, the latest and largest in a series stretching back to March, to a 1.7-mile-deep wastewater disposal well, ...
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USA TODAY
Summary Box: Reinsurer says quakes in Japan, NZ lead to record losses from ...
Washington Post
TOUGHEST YEAR: The devastating earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand made 2011 the costliest year yet for the insurance industry in terms of natural disaster losses, a leading reinsurance company said Wednesday. THE TOTAL: Munich Re AG said in an annual ...
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Quakes undermine language work
The Press
... France, Germany, Malaysia and Sweden are the few who have either chosen to stay or have arrived in Christchurch since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes to study English. Language International director Kate Rouse said that before the February 22 quake, ...
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Energy Giants Unshaken by Quakes Seek Shale
Bloomberg
31 quake in Ohio -- the tenth in that region in a year -- is unlikely to spur restrictions that may disrupt US shale exploration. “No one has made a concrete connection between earthquakes and drilling,” Hanold said in a telephone interview. ...
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Bloomberg
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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Latest Chch quakes won't boost AMI exposure - Treasury
TVNZ
... with aftershocks over the holiday period following a magnitude 5.8 earthquake on December 23, which caused power and phone outages and further liquefaction in the city's eastern suburbs. The Government is taking on the quake-related claims of AMI, ...
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The US$10M solution to fracking earthquakes
Financial Post
A 4.0 New Year's Eve quake in Ohio prompted officials to shut down five wells used to dispose of fluid used in the hydraulic fracturing process. That comes less than a year after Arkansas declared a moratorium due to a surge in earthquakes as companies ...
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Financial Post
How Humans Cause Earthquakes
Smithsonian (blog)
But this is only one way that humans are causing the earth to quake. Mining (taking weight from the earth), creating lakes with dams (adding weight on top of the earth) and extracting oil and gas from the earth have caused at least 200 earthquakes in ...
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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
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
Council buildings checked for quake damage
Radio New Zealand
HSBC House on Worcester Street, which houses the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority, is still to be re-assesed and access is restricted to staff only. Some 6600 claims have been lodged with the Earthquake Commission since 23 December this year...
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Energy Giants Undeterred by Quakes Seek Shale Growth Runway
BusinessWeek
31 quake in Ohio -- the tenth in that region in a year -- is unlikely to spur restrictions that may disrupt US shale exploration. “No one has made a concrete connection between earthquakes and drilling,” Hanold said in a telephone interview. ...
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Youngstown: Is brine injection well to blame for quakes?
WKYC-TV
YOUMGSTOWN -- Seismographs at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History were recording when Saturday's earthquake hit McDonald. The quake came one day after it was announced that North Star Disposal would stop injecting wastewater into the ground. ...
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Christchurch firms pick up pieces - again
New Zealand Herald
They were still picking themselves up after the big earthquake of February 22 and thequakes interrupted the crucial Christmas shopping season. "Christmas Eve is our biggest day of the year and it literally ruined the whole thing," said Janine Kenyon, ...
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Small quake shakes parts of Hawaii island
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
By Star-Advertiser staff A small earthquake shook parts of Hawaii island overnight, according to the US Geological Survey. The magnitude-3.7 quake struck offshore at 3:32 am about 14 miles east-northeast of Hilo at a depth of about 28 miles, ...
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City advocate steps back from front line
The Press
By the middle of last year, having also lost her rented Richmond house in the Februaryquake, a burnt-out Wasley left the spotlight, satisfied that groups like the Canterbury Community Earthquake Recovery Network would continue to fight for residents' ...
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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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The ACES Eagle: Hault American Foreign Aid Policy
my.hsj.org
“America helps Haiti after earth quake!” “America First to help Japan after Earthquakeand Possible Nuclear Melt Down!” These are two headlines seen in American papers over the last two years because of the American Foreign Aid Policy. ...
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Tremors prolong civic offices' closure
Independent Community Newspaper
The building reopened in November after sustaining $11m of damage in the February 22quake. An engineering report released in August cleared the building of any significant structural damage. Gordon Craig, development manager of the joint venture with ...
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For much of Va., 2011 was a year of natural disasters
The Virginian-Pilot
23 earthquake. The 5.8-magnitude quake was the largest in more than a century, and the second-largest ever recorded, in Virginia. Damage to property near the epicenter in Mineral in Louisa County brought $7 million in federal assistance. ...
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The Virginian-Pilot
2011 most expensive natural catastrophe year ever
News-Insurances (press release) (blog)
The economic cost of the earthquake and what followed was £135 billion and the insured losses amounted to £26 billion, the most costly single event of all time. Theearthquakes in New Zealand were another big one. The February quake killed 181 people, ...
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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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$70000 for Selwyn quake relief
Star Canterbury
Criteria for Selwyn Earthquake Relief Fund has been approved by the council. The council adopted terms of reference for the Selwyn fund, to be overseen by a committee comprising the Mayor, two councillors, the community development advisor and the ...
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Injection Wells Shut Down After 4.0 Earthquake in Ohio
Insurance Journal
I have spoken to a government geologist about this general issue, and she told me thequake activity was associated with fracking. On the othher hand she knew I was not a scientist, and she may have been speaking generically. Do you have anything that ...
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World events hit home
Banbridge Leader
She said she was convinced she would die in the quake - which killed 20 people. Lynda said, “When the building stopped shaking, we made for the back door, checking that all the staff were accounted for.” Describing the “apocalyptic” scenes in the ...
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Banbridge Leader
Experts downplay closing of brine well
Warren Tribune Chronicle
The company plans to meet with officials from ODNR this morning. One day later, a 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck one tenth of a mile from the well site. That quake was the largest among the 11 that have struck the Mahoning Valley since March 17. ...
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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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Fuel Fix » Ohio quakes could incite fracking policy shift
By Associated Press
Earthquakes caused by the injection of wastewater that's a byproduct of high-pressure hydraulic fracture drilling, aren't new. Yet earthquakes have a special ability to grab public attention. That's especially true after Saturday's quake near ...
Fuel Fix
Quakes halt Ohio 'fracking' waste water well | The Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse
“I consider the link to be persuasive,” John Armbruster, a seismologist with Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who studied the quakes, told AFP. “In three dimensions, the earthquake is about a kilometer from the bottom ...
The Raw Story
Ohio earthquake was not a natural event, expert says | JunkScience ...
By Steve Milloy
“We know the depth (of the quake on Saturday) is two miles and that is different from a natural earthquake,” said Kim, who is advising the state of Ohio. Data collected from four seismographs set up in November in the area confirm a ...
JunkScience.com
Avoiding fracking earthquakes is an expensive venture | MNN ...
By Super Admin
QUAKES: A 4.0 New Year's Eve quake in Ohio prompted officials to shut down five wells used to dispose of fluid used in the fracking process. That comes less than a year after Arkansas declared a moratorium due to a surge in earthquakes. ...
Earth Matters News
Guam Earthquake | Hank Johnson | Tip Over Capsize | The Daily ...
By Matthew Boyle
In quake's wake, congressman revives claim that Guam could 'tip over and capsize' | 'Don't say I didn't warn y'all. Magnitude 5.2 Earthquake - Guam Region'
The Daily Caller
Evidence Suggests Ohio Earthquake Caused by Fracking ...
By Stefanie Penn Spear
According to Reuters, Kim said, “We know the depth [of the quake on Saturday] is two miles and that is different from a natural earthquake.” Data collected from four seismographs set up in November in the area confirm a connection between ...
EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of...
HAITI, Land of Freedom: Haiti After the Quake: Where the Relief ...
By Wadner Pierre
Haiti After the Quake: Where the Relief Money Did and Did Not Go. by BILL QUIGLEY and AMBER RAMANAUSKAS. Counterpunch. Haiti, a close neighbor of the US with over nine million people, was devastated by earthquake on January 12, ...
HAITI, Land of Freedom
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 into new year ...
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...
JAPAN EARTHQUAKE JANUARY 1, 2012: MAGNITUDE 7.0 QUAKE
Another powerful earthquake hits Japan and it happened exactly on New Year's Day. The quake which has a magnitude 7.0 rocked the eastern part of Japan.
www.pinoyhalo.com/.../japan-earthquake-january-1-2012-ma...
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 ... - Jibambe
But the Ohio Department of Natural Resources director said fracking is not causing thequakes. He said four injection wells within a five-mile radius of the by now ...
jibambe.com/.../mcdonald-ohio-earthquake-4-0-quake-felt-ne...
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...
  
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