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EARTHQUAKE News, Feb 23, 2012

4.0 Earthquake in Missouri Shakes 9 States
Insurance Journal
By Jim Salter | February 23, 2012 Just days after the 200th anniversary of a series of massive earthquakes in southeast Missouri, residents woke up on Feb. 21 to a rumbling reminder that they live in one of the continent's most active seismic areas.
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Slow Progress in Christchurch One Year After Quake
ClaimsJournal.com
By NICK PERRY | February 23, 2012 As families of the 185 people killed in the Christchurch earthquake marked the one-year anniversary of the disaster Wednesday, signs of a city still broken were all around them. Hundreds of wrecked buildings downtown ...
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New Zealand churches mark anniversary of devastating earthquake
Episcopal News Service
By David Crampton | February 23, 2012 Leave a Comment | [Ecumenical News International] As Christians worldwide marked the beginning of Lent, New Zealand church leaders gathered with Christchurch residents to mark the first anniversary of the 6.3 ...
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San Jose Earthquakes' Stadium Approved. Will A DC United Stadium Be Next?
Black And Red United
by Martin Shatzer on Feb 23, 2012 12:00 PM EST The San Jose Earthquakesachieved a landmark victory last night in their attempts to build a new soccer-specific stadium to permanently house the MLS team. The Planning Commission of San Jose voted ...
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Luck prevented NZ quake deaths
Sky News Australia
... NZ quake deaths Updated: 15:39, Thursday February 23, 2012 It was only down to luck that no one was killed when the stairs of the 18-storey Forsyth Barr building in the New Zealand city of Christchurch collapsed in last February's earthquake.
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Dentsu: Advertising Expenditures in JapanTotaled 5709.6 Billion Yen in 2011 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
TOKYO, Feb 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dentsu Inc. (tokyo:4324)(isin:JP3551520004)(president & ceo:Tadashi Ishii)(head office:Tokyo)(capital:58)(capital:967.1 million yen) released today its annual report of advertising expenditures in Japan for the ...
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Micronas achieves excellent margin despite Japan crisis and euro weakness
Reuters
Feb 23 (Reuters) - Micronas achieves excellent margin despite Japan crisis and euro weakness Zurich, February 23, 2012 - Micronas can look back on a successful 2011 financial year. "Although the crisis in Japan hit the Company hard owing to the high ...
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JD Power and LMC Automotive Report: Strength in New-Vehicle Retail Sales is ...
MarketWatch (press release)
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- New-vehicle retail sales performance in February has been strong month-to-date, with the selling rate outperforming January's, according to a monthly sales forecast developed by JD ...
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Avino Provides Year End Summary and Outlook for 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Feb 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. ("Avino") (CVE:CA:ASM) (ASE:ASM) (frankfurt:GV6)(berlin:GV6) - We are pleased to present a review of Avino's achievements in 2011 and outlook for 2012.
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A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of the Main UK Operating Subsidiaries of RSA ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Feb 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- AM Best Europe -- Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of "a" of the main UK operating subsidiaries of RSA Insurance Group plc ...
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Amway Parent Surpasses USD$10.9 Billion in Sales
MarketWatch (press release)
ADA, Mich., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Amway parent company, Alticor Inc., announced global sales exceeding USD$10.9 billion for the year ended December 31, 2011. The results represent 17 percent growth over 2010 annual sales of USD$9.2 ...
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'The Nature of Things' looks at earthquake
Canada.com
By Alex Strachan, Postmedia News February 23, 2012 David Suzuki should have been asleep, but he wasn't, when word first broke of the 9.0-magnitudeearthquake 70 kilometres east of Tohoku's Oshika Peninsula, off the coast of Japan.
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Bobby Convey Takes Swipe At San Jose's ... Housing Market?
SB Nation (blog)
by Jeremiah Oshan • Feb 23, 2012 11:55 AM EST Bobby Convey appears to be in a pretty sweet situation with Sporting Kansas City. After wearing out his welcome with the San Jose Earthquakes, he's playing for a team with a brand-new stadium, that features ...
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J.D. Power and LMC Automotive Report: Strength in New-Vehicle Retail Sales is ...
Sacramento Bee
By JD Power and Associates WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Feb. 23, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- New-vehicle retail sales performance in February has been strong month-to-date, with the selling rate outperforming January's, according to a monthly sales forecast ...
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Injection wells may cause earthquakes
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
By Glynis Board February 23, 2012 · WV has seen seismic activity over the past couple of years and some residents and lawmakers are concerned. Is there a connection between the oil and gas industry and recent earthquakeson the east coast?
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Leahy heads Congressional delegation to Cuba, Haiti and Colombia
vtdigger.org
by Press Release | February 23, 2012 (WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22) — Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is heading a bicameral, bipartisan congressional delegation of four senators and two House members in visits to Cuba, Haiti and Colombia.
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Panasonic to Start Accepting Orders for Energy Creation-storage Linked System ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Osaka, Feb 23, 2012 (JCN Newswire via COMTEX) -- Panasonic Corp. today announced it will start taking orders for its "Energy Creation-storage Linked System for Home" from March 21 in Japan. The system integrates Panasonic's solar cells and lithium-ion ...
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MLS '12 Preview – Soccer Specific Stadiums Soaring
Major League Soccer Talk
By Daniel Feuerstein on February 23, 2012 (about 1 minute ago) When you started to follow Major League Soccer for the first time in 1996, one of your enduring memories was visiting stadiums that were primarily used for the National Football League or ...
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Red Hat Executive Appointed to Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA ...
MarketWatch (press release)
RALEIGH, NC, Feb 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT) , the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Marco Bill-Peter, Red Hat's vice president of Global Support Services, has been appointed as a member of ...
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Quake strikes eastern Indonesia
Sky News Australia
Quake strikes eastern Indonesia Updated: 07:45, Thursday February 23, 2012A 6.1-magnitude undersea earthquake has struck off Indonesia's eastern Maluku islands, meteorologists say, but there was no tsunami warning or reports of damage.
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ACM Continues Expansion with Opening of Tampa Bay Office
Insurance Journal
By Newswire | February 23, 2012 San Diego, CA, 02/23/12 – American Claims Management, Inc. (ACM), a national third party administrator, has opened an additional office in Tampa Bay, Florida to leverage the Company's growth in its East Coast, ...
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Automotive Infotainment Electronics Market Set for Growth in 2012
Autochannel (press release)
El Segundo, Calif., February 23, 2012—Following expansions in 2010 and 2011, the global market for automotive infotainment systems is set to expand by another 3 percent in 2012, driven by rising car production and increasing electronic content in ...
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New Animation Reveals Japan Tsunami Debris Path
Our Amazing Planet
by Brett Israel, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer - Feb 23, 201209:59 AM ET A new animation shows the path of the debris carried out to sea by last year's massive tsunami in Japan. The tsunami triggered by the devastating earthquake that struck off the ...
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Our Amazing Planet
East Coast quake a 'teachable moment'
Tucson Citizen
by Chuck Raasch on Feb. 22, 2012, under USA Today News Six months after an earthquake shook the East Coast, its lessons still reverberate through the emergency management, engineering and geological communities. The magnitude-5.8 quake, centered in the ...
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GIS & Social Media Team Up to Combat Disasters
GISuser.com (press release)
February 23, 2012 - Software companies are integrating geographic information systems (GIS) technology and social media to map people's tweets and other social media platforms with geospatial data. GIS paired with social media has been used in every ...
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2012 February 23 13:25:30 UTC - U.S. Geological Survey ...
By U.S. Geological Survey
Thursday, February 232012 at 13:25:30 UTC; Thursday, February 232012 at 11:25:30 PM at epicenter; Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones · Location, 5.255°S, 151.995°E. Depth, 68.5 km (42.6 miles). Region, NEW BRITAIN REGION, ...
USGS M 2.5+ Earthquakes
GeoNet – New Zealand Earthquake Report - Feb 23 2012 at 2:34 ...
The GeoNet Project - Monitoring geological hazards in New Zealand.
GNS Science - GeoNet: Recent...
The Coming Crisis: 4.8 Magnitude Earthquake HOKKAIDO, JAPAN ...
By Lynsey
Thursday, February 232012 ... A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 6 67.9 km (42.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:26:39 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012. The epicenter ... Categories:QUAKES+VOLCANOES ...
The Coming Crisis
San Jose Earthquakes Can Start Building Stadium, Clear Final ...
By Jeremiah Oshan
San Jose Earthquakes (@SJEarthquakes) February 232012. Up until now, details of ... Assuming the Quakes' stadium is ready in 2013, that will mark the seventh straight year that at least one new MLS stadium has opened. For more on the ...
SBNation.com - All Posts
Earthquakes Stadium Deal Clears Final Hurdle « CBS San Francisco
By Joe Rogers
Earthquakes Stadium Deal Clears Final Hurdle. February 232012 9:42 AM. Share this. No comments. Artist rendering of the proposed San JoseEarthquakes stadium. (San Jose Earthquakes/MLS). MikeColgan20100909_KCBS_0410r ...
CBS San Francisco
Recap of the NZ Earthquake Recovery – one year later « Recovery ...
By recoverydiva
Recap of the NZ Earthquake Recovery – one year later. February 232012. English: Christchurch City (New Zealand) from ... Image via Wikipedia. This is the Associated Press article that has been printed in several US newspapers this week, ...
Recovery Diva
RSOE EDIS - Preliminary Earthquake Report
Preliminary Earthquake Report ... Date-Time [UTC]: 23 February, 2012 at 15:26:39 UTC. Local Date/Time: Thursday, February 232012 at 15:26 in the afternoon at epicenter. Location: 42° 2.838, 142° 29.964. Depth: 67.90 km (42.19 miles) ...
RSOE EDIS - Earthquake Report > M 2.5
National Cathedral Earthquake Repairs To Top $20M - Project ...
... carvers chisel new pieces to repair damage inflicted on the Washington National Cathedral by an earthquake last August, fundraisers say the cathedral's restoration fund is $18 million short of the repair cost. Thursday,February 232012.
WISN.com - Money Headlines
FEATURE: Tokyo eateries offer chance to support recovery efforts ...
TOKYO, Feb23, Kyodo. ''Help Tohoku and have a good time'' could be the motto of a number of Tokyo eateries that are providing opportunities for diners to support the reconstruction of areas ravaged by last March's earthquake and tsunami ...
Quake - News - Kyodo News
Soccer By Ives: Earthquakes get final approval for soccer-specific ...
By Franco Panizo
photo by Michael Pimentel/ISIphotos.com By FRANCO PANIZO It may have taken longer than they would have liked, but the San Jose Earthquakes will finally be getting a soccer-specific stadium to call their own. ... February 23,2012 ...
Soccer By Ives
GeoNet – New Zealand Earthquake Report - Feb 23 2012 at 2:34 ...
The GeoNet Project - Monitoring geological hazards in New Zealand.
www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/3663142g.html
2012 February 23 04:05:32 UTC - U.S. Geological Survey ...
Date-Time. Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 04:05:32 UTC; Thursday,February 23, 2012 at 04:05:32 PM at epicenter; Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones ...
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.../Quakes/usb00084gl.php
Eureka Earthquake: Magnitude-5.6 Quake Strikes Northern California
The magnitude-5.6 quake struck at 1:07 p.m. about 18 miles inland in an unincorporated part of Humboldt County, the U.S. Geological ... February 23,2012 ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../eureka-earthquake_n_1274795.h...
Marsquake! How signs of Martian earthquake could prove there is ...
How signs of Martian earthquake could finally prove there is life on the Red Planet. By Julian Gavaghan. Last updated at 9:40 AM on 23rd February 2012...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Marsquake-How-signs-Martian-earthq...
4.0 Earthquake in Missouri Shakes 9 States
By Jim Salter | February 23, 2012 Just days after the 200th anniversary of a series of massive earthquakes in southeast Missouri, residents woke up on Feb.
www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2012/.../236899.ht...
Magnitude 4.1 Earthquake Rattles Christchurch | Stuff.co.nz
A 4.1-magnitude quake has rattled Christchurch this morning. ... Next Christchurch Earthquake 2011 story: On track with ... catherine #53 06:38 pmFeb 23 2012 ...
www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/.../Tremor-rattles-Christchurch
The Coming Crisis: 4.6 Magnitude Earthquake FIJI REGION - 23rd ...
4.6 Magnitude Earthquake FIJI REGION - 23rd Feb 2012. A magnitude 4.6earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 526.1 km (326.9 miles), thequake ...
thecomingcrisis.blogspot.com/.../46-magnitude-earthquake-fiji...
Slow Progress in Christchurch One Year After Quake
By NICK PERRY | February 23, 2012 As families of the 185 people killed in the Christchurch earthquake marked the one-year anniversary of the disaster ...
www.claimsjournal.com/news/international/.../201596.htm
5.0 Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico Earthquake February 23, 2012 ...
5.0 Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico Earthquake February 23, 2012 ... If you felt the quake and you were not from of the mentioned communities you can report the ...
blog.friendlyforecast.com/5-0-tapachula-chiapas-mexico-earth...
New Zealand churches mark anniversary of devastating earthquake
By David Crampton | February 23, 2012 Leave a Comment | [Ecumenical News ... the names of 185 people who died in the quake were read by police,...
episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/.../new-zealand-churches-mark-a...
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