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EARTHQUAKE News, Jan 15, 2012

5.7-magnitude quake hits Philippine island region
Sacramento Bee
The US Geological Survey reported that the magnitude-5.7 earthquake hit the Babuyan Islands region off the country's mountainous north. Philippine officials placed its magnitude at 5.5. The quake's center, at a depth of 13.9 miles (22.4 kilometers), ...
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Local govts helping condos brace for quakes
The Daily Yomiuri
In recent years, a growing number of local governments have been supportingearthquake-resistance upgrades for condominiums built before quake-resistance standards were strengthened. Efforts include dispatching construction design experts to residents ...
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To help Haiti, let more Haitians into the United States
MiamiHerald.com
We need more rapid ways to get relief directly to disaster victims, including the hundreds of thousands still suffering in the aftermath of the Haiti quake. Luckily, we already have one: migration. Immediately after the quake, about 200000 Haitians ...
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Strong quakes rattle remote Antarctica
Hindustan Times
"There is the small possibility of a local or regional tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a few hundreds kilometers from theearthquake epicenter," the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. ...
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W.Va. DEP: Injection, quakes could be tied
Wetzel Chronicle
The company noted 25 earthquakes have been reported within 100 miles of the recent seismic activity since the year 2000, including a magnitude-2.5quake in Braxton County in October 2000, before the well was drilled. ...
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Haiti, two years later
The Free Lance-Star
More than a third of the 1.5 million people displaced by the magnitude-7.0earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010, remain homeless. The quake killed 300000 people. Despite a deepening global financial crisis, the nations of the world responded to the ...
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Japan Builders Draw Sales With Quake-Resistant Features
Bloomberg
Changing Sales Pitch “The sales pitch has changed: We demonstrate more as to what we have done in preparation for theearthquake,” said Funo. An 8-magnitude quake is estimated to strike every 118.8 years on average near Tokyo, the last one being in ...
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Bloomberg
Englander E-News: How to Prepare for the Next Big Quake
Patch.com
January 17 is the 17th anniversary of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, so it's a great opportunity to kick off our Year of Emergency Preparedness in Los Angeles. As Chair of the Public Safety Committee, my top priority is working to protect public ...
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Project to pour water into volcano to make power
Boston.com
Pumping fracking wastewater deep underground for disposal likely led to recent earthquakes in Arkansas and Ohio. Fears persist that cracking rock deep underground through hydroshearing can also lead to damaging quakes. EGS has other problems. ...
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Boston.com
5.7-magnitude quake hits Philippine island region
TheNewsTribune.com
The US Geological Survey reported that the magnitude-5.7 earthquake hit the Babuyan Islands region off the country's mountainous north. Philippine officials placed its magnitude at 5.5. The quake's center, at a depth of 13.9 miles (22.4 kilometers), ...
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Low intensity earthquake jolts parts of Karachi
The Nation, Pakistan
A low intensity earthquake struck parts of Karachi on Saturday night. It is to be mentioned here that low intensity earthquake jolts strucked one week ago in some parts of the metropolis. Pakistan's Meteorological Agency said that the quake struck the ...
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The Nation, Pakistan
Disrupted sleep anyone?
Stuff.co.nz
That earthquake unstuckit. Opens n closes like a dream now." It is the fouthquake over a magnitude 5.0 this year according to the Canterbury Quake Live website and the ninth since the swarm began on December 23. Last night's was the most shallow of ...
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Quake rocks Calayan Group of Islands
ABS CBN News
MANILA, Philippines -- The Calayan Group of Islands was rocked by a 5.5 magnitude earthquake at 12:36 am Sunday. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismoloy (Phivolcs) did not raise a tsunami warning following the earthquake. ...
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Rare Caterpillar-like Horizontal Earthquake Discovered
Our Amazing Planet
The area hadn't experienced many temblors before, making theearthquake an unusual occurrence. Now, 20 years later, geologists have used satellite and seismic data to track down the cause of that rare quake — an equally rare type of fault. ...
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Our Amazing Planet
Fate of well-loved city facilities in limbo
The Press
... nearly a year after they were badly damaged in the February 22 earthquake. The Christchurch Town Hall, Queen Elizabeth II Park complex and AMI Stadium were all forced to close after they were significantly damaged by the quake. ...
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Haiti: Not trendy, not chic, just real news
MiamiHerald.com
More than half a million Haitians left homeless by the quake still live in tent cities, and a cholera outbreak a year ago killed more than 4000, including many children. Last week brought peaceful street demonstrations by those exasperated with the ...
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5.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits New Zealand's Christchurch
CRIENGLISH.com
A 5.0 magnitude earthquake ratted New Zealand's South Island city of Christchurch on Sunday, followed by more aftershocks. The quake occurred at 2.47 am Sunday (13:47 GMT Saturday). It was centered 10 km east of Christchurch and 10 km north-east of ...
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Christchurch pupils achieve best results
Stuff.co.nz
Poutasi first believed the special derived-grade process available to city pupils after the February 22 earthquake may have contributed to the results, but she found it had not. The authority established a quake-derived grade process this year. ...
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Owners of vacant sections frustrated
The Press
The quake-damaged suburb of Brooklands was basically wiped off the map in November when 417 properties were rezoned red, meaning all the suburb's land was uneconomic to repair. Various government departments told Goulding that the problem of ...
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Sacred Heart reaches out to help Haiti with still needed quake relief
Greenwich Post
Almost exactly two years ago, a huge earthquake hit Haiti. Students from the Vassar Haiti Project and Convent of the Sacred Heart have joined together to raise funds for the rebuilding of Haiti through a sale of Haitian paintings and crafts. ...
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Quake measuring 5.5 jolts Chitral
PakistanToday.com.pk
CHITRAL - An earthquake measuring 5.5 on Richter scale jolted Chitral and its surrounding areas on Saturday morning. According to Pakistan Meteorological Department, the epicentre of the quake was 115 kilometres away from Chitral in the Hindukush ...
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Haitian New Yorkers Anxious To See Progress In Their Damaged Homeland
NY1
Two years ago this week, Haiti was devastated by a massivequake that claimed more than 300000 lives and left more than one million people homeless. Now, Haitian-Americans like Carine Jocelyn, the executive director of Diaspora Community Services,...
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NY1
Magnitude 5 quake shakes Christchurch
SBS
You can get Flash from here... Residents in Christchurch were shaken awake by a magnitude five earthquake early Sunday. The quake struck at 2.47am local time (0047 AEDT), 10km east of Christchurch and 9km deep, GNS science says. ...
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The Magnitude and Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Top Secret Writers
It was the Great Earthquake – a massive quake that literally opened up a crack in the Earth that sucked in the lower floors of many buildings. Early estimates judge the death toll at about 700, but later estimates come in closer to over 2000 dead. ...
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Helping Haiti, on ice in Prince George's
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
On Saturday, she used her love of skating to help raise money for victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Two years after the quake that rocked the island nation, the Forestville 8-year-old hosted her third skating-centric fundraiser, ...
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Encouraging disaster victims to try hard and cheer up could put pressure on them
Mainichi Daily News
Encouraging victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake to try hard to overcome their hardship or cheer up could put pressure on them or even push them to breaking point, victims and experts say. The March 11 quake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis ...
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Mainichi Daily News
Mercer groups continue to aid recovery in Haiti
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
The 7.0-magnitude quake brought down houses, schools and churches, killing at least 300000 people in the process. Last week, as the two-year anniversary of the earthquake approached, local church groups and Haitians reflected on the deadly natural ...
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The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
Can the world phase out nuclear power?
Monsters and Critics.com
'Japan is the only country in the world that has so many nuclear reactors inquake-prone areas,' Kawai said. Kawai explained that Japan makes up 0.3 per cent of the world's land mass, but the number of earthquakes that take place in the country is some ...
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Crunch time for business interruption insurance
The Press
Nearly a year after February 22 many Christchurch business owners are still battling with post-quake issues like reduced cashflow and loss of premises. For some, the real crunch will come in 39 days' time, on the anniversary of the magnitude 6.3quake, ...
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The Press
Frustration for Christchurch bakery
Newstalk ZB
The February 22 quake anniversary for a lot of Christchurch businesses sees the end of 12 months of business interruption insurance. Wayne Saunders owns KB's Bakery franchise in Edgeware Village but he's been locked out since June 1 when the building ...
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Radio New Zealand : News : Christchurch Earthquake : Quake-hit ...
Christchurch and Canterbury Tourism says despite a bleak year, many local operators have developed new tours and offers to survive the post-quakedownturn. ...
www.radionz.co.nz/.../quake-hit-tourism-operators-bouncing-...
Quake Rocks Christchurch Earthquake Briefing | Stuff.co.nz
A magnitude-4.7 earthquake hit Christchurch at 8.04pm tonight, hours after a magnitude-5 quake interrupted a special briefing on aftershocks.
www.stuff.co.nz/.../Magnitude-4-7-quake-strikes-Christchurch
Earthquake: 3.0 quake occurs near the Geysers - latimes.com
California earthquake Monday Jan. 2, 2012: 3.0 near the Geysers in Northern California.
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../earthquake-30-quake-strikes-near-...
Youngstown Injection Well Stays Shut After Earthquake - NYTimes ...
Youngstown officials want a chance to study data from a fresh earthquake in the ... The latest quake, the 11th since mid-March, occurred Saturday afternoon and ...
www.nytimes.com/.../youngstown-injection-well-stays-shut-aft...
Haiti recovery continues, two years after quake
Haitian vendors sell their goods in Port-au-Prince amid earthquake damage that remains almost two years after the quake. A man displaced by the 2010 ...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQAs9CMrP_gallery.html
Company cautions against linking well, Ohio quakes
30 after the 10th earthquake Christmas Eve. After a New Year's quake of magnitude 4.0, Gov. John Kasich ordered a moratorium on all wastewater injection ...
www.boston.com/.../company_cautions_against_linking_well_...
Small earthquake rattles Braxton near quake cluster recorded in ...
A small earthquake was detected Tuesday in Braxton County, in the same general vicinity of a cluster of 10 similar-sized quakes that occurred in 2010. ...
wvgazette.com/topStories4/201201110170
Guam Earthquake Today Marks Strongest Quake Recently in Region
LOS ANGELES (LALATE) - A Guam earthquake today marks one of the strongest to shake the region in recent weeks. The Guam earthquake today Wednesday,
news.lalate.com/.../guam-earthquake-today-marks-strongest-re...
Dallas earthquake not caused by fracking… And neither was the ...
Fracking can trigger extremely minor earthquakes. A 2.0 Md quake is in the realm of possibilities. However, there aren't any active wells within a 5 km radius ...
wattsupwiththat.com/.../dallas-earthquake-not-caused-by-frack...
7.3 QUAKE: JANUARY 11, 2012 EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERED ...
A 7.3 quake shook the province of Aceh and its surrounding areas early Wednesday, prompting people to panic as officials issue the routinely tsunami warnings ...
www.pinoyhalo.com/.../7-3-quake-january-11-2012-earthqua...
GeoNet – New Zealand Earthquake Report - Jan 11 2012 at 5:17 ...
The GeoNet Project - Monitoring geological hazards in New Zealand.
www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/3640771g.html
Small Earthquake Rattles Winslow
Have you ever experienced an earthquake either here or someplace else? The 3.1-magnitude quake was reportedat 7:11 p.m. Sunday about 20 miles outside of ...
kmle108.radio.com/2012/01/.../small-earthquake-rattles-winsl...
Haiti Earthquake Anniversary: Country Marks Second Anniversary ...
Haiti Earthquake Anniversary: Country Marks Second Anniversary Of DeadlyQuake. Haiti Earthquake Anniversary. In this picture taken on Jan. 6, 2012, a...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../haiti-earthquake-anniversary_n_1...
Make a dog earthquake kit and you could win a $250 home ...
LOL, slight problem with “so you can be the coolest on your block and tweet about the earthquake for days” … yeah, tried that with the quakes we've had in ...
www.totallyunprepared.com/.../your-dog-could-win-you-a-ho...
Magnitude 2.7 - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/.../ci11053557.p...
  
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