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EARTHQUAKE News, Mar 12, 2012

Video: Japan marks one year since quake, tsunami
msnbc.com
>>> in japan , a moment of silence. prayer and reflection as the country marked the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country. nbc's ian williams reports from japan . >> reporter: good morning from ishinomaki, ...
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Japan Quake-1 year later
Imperial Valley Press
A year after an earthquake and tsunami devastated northern Japan, people gather at memorial events across downtown LA's Little Tokyo to remember those who died and those who are still suffering. Joshua Nishinaka, 6, and his family are among those ...
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Japan Earthquake Anniversary: Cyndi Lauper Supports With Music, Donations
Huffington Post
... away after last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Now, the American singer is back to show the Japanese people that she hasn't forgotten them. Lauper had arrived in Tokyo on March 11, 2011, just as the massivequake struck northern Japan.
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Japan marks 1 year since quake, tsunami disaster
WFMJ
High school students mourn the victims of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) AP National News Video More>> Romney says he's on track to get a nominating majority before convention; ...
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Post-quake tourism slowly returning in Japan
msnbc.com
One year after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, tourists are slowly beginning to return, led by business travelers. Travel journalist Valarie D'Elia shares her experiences from a recent trip. >>> workers in japan 's fukushima nuclear ...
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Japan marks tsunami anniversary with moment of silence
USA TODAY
By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY ISHINOMAKI, Japan – At 2:46 pm Sunday, a year to the minute since Japan's strongest recordedearthquake, Toshiyuki Momma heard the siren's wail, turned toward the sea and bowed in prayer for all its victims.
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USA TODAY
Japan marks earthquake anniversary
San Francisco Chronicle
... stood for a moment of silence at 2:46 pm - the precise moment a year ago when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck 80 miles off Japan's northeastern coast. In the many small towns devastated by the quake and the resulting tsunami wave - 45 feet high, ...
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Japanese honour victims of tsunami, quake disaster
CTV.ca
(AP / Koji Sasahara) People across Japan paused for a moment of silence at 2:46 pm Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of a powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami that killed more than 19000 people. Japan's quake was the strongest recorded in ...
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CTV.ca
New quake frames Japan's sorrow even as rebuilding continues
OneNewsNow
No tsunami warning was issued this time, but it brought back nightmarish memories of what happened when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck in 2011, when a crushing tsunami DID strike. Between the damage of the quakeand the force of the wave, ...
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Japan remembers horrific quake, tsunami
Washington Times
By Miki Toda and Malcolm Foster AP An open area in front of a temporary shopping complex in the devastated city of Kesennuma, Japan, serves as the site of a candlelit memorial to those killed in the earthquake and tsunami on March, 11, 2011.
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Washington Times
World Holds Vigils for Victims of Japan's Deadly Earthquake, Tsunami
Voice of America (blog)
Japan collectively paused at 2:46 pm Sunday — the exact moment the magnitude-9 quake struck off Japan's northeastern coast on March 11, 2011, and unleashed a tsunami that devastated the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, causing three reactors to ...
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Japan Marks One Year since Earthquake – Tsunami Disaster
Insurance Journal
In the devastated northeastern coastal town of Rikuzentakata, a siren sounded at 2:46 pm – the exact time the magnitude-9.0 quake struck on March 11, 2011 – and a Buddhist priest in a purple robe rang a huge bell at a damaged temple overlooking a ...
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A year after the disaster
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Miki Toda and Malcolm Foster AP Kyodo News, AP Joining hands and offering prayers, mourners on a beach Sunday in Iwaki, Japan, remember victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck one year ago. The ravaging unleashed the world's ...
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Japan Pauses to Remember on Disaster's First Anniversary
Voice of America
A magnitude 9.0 quake struck off the country's northeastern coast, unleashing a tsunami at heights not seen in centuries, Coastal areas of many communities were washed out to sea. The disaster also caused the meltdowns of three nuclear reactors.
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Devastating quake can't shake Canadian's will to stay in Japan
Canada.com
"I still am very nervous whenever we have even a small earthquake." Sarault's town of Kakuda, in the hills of Miyagi prefecture, was spared the tsunami that devastated nearby coastal communities. But the quake still turned his life upside down.
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Japan marks 1 year since quake, tsunami disaster
CBS News
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — For 70-year-old Toshiko Murakami, memories of the terrifying earthquake and tsunami that destroyed much of her seaside town and swept away her sister brought fresh tears Sunday, exactly a year after the disaster.
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Japan marks quake, nuclear disaster anniversary
Sacramento Bee
By TAKEHIKO KAMBAYASHI TOKYO -- Japan on Sunday marked the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in the northeastern part of the country that triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
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Japan quake & tsunami: 1 man stays behind
New York Daily News
His hometown, Tomioka, was a tidy village of 16000 people eight miles from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant when theearthquake and tsunami hit. The town, once famous for one of Japan's longest cherry blossom tunnels, now stands empty, ...
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New York Daily News
Japan one year after its earthquake and tsunami
ABC Online
If they admit an earthquake caused the accident, they will have to raise thequake resistance level of all other reactors. The 'stress test' the government is carrying out on the other reactors is based on this assumption that the reactors at Fukushima ...
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PHOTOS: 1 year after Japan Tsunami
WTSP 10 News
AP RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (CBS/AP)- People across Japan prayed and stood in silence on Sunday to remember the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19000 people and unleashing the world's worst nuclear ...
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Corporate Japan's Post-Quake Resilience
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By JAMES SIMMS Corporate Japan has proven remarkably resilient over the year since the 2011 earthquake. Earnings are expected to fall in the year through March, but rebound past predisaster levels next year, James Simms reports on Markets Hub.
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Can you quake-proof a building?
The Age
EARTHQUAKES are a force to be reckoned with in Australia even though they tend to fly under the radar, according to civil engineering academic John Wilson. Having focused on quakeengineering here and overseas, including in high-seismic California, ...
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The Age
UNEXPECTED EARTHQUAKES SHAKE GEOLOGISTS' FAITH
U-T San Diego
The quake and the resulting tsunami killed about 20000 people, wiped out entire towns and triggered power outages and meltdowns at a nuclear power plant. Since 2004, earthquake scientists have been caught off guard, or to some extent consternated, ...
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Toronto memorial marks anniversary of Japanese quake
CBC.ca
A year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan, a crowd gathered in Toronto for a memorial to show support for the country as it struggles to recover from the tragedy. Many wiped their eyes while watching scenes of the destruction ...
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The western US will face its own tsunami. But when?
Fox News
The last great Cascadia quake occurred in 1700, uncomfortably long ago when you consider that such events occur every 300 to 500 years. “Observations ofearthquakes go back to only about 100 years, resulting in a relatively short record,” Dieiterich ...
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1 year later, Cyndi Lauper urges support for Japan
Superior Telegram
Cyndi Lauper is admired in Japan for not running away after last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Cyndi Lauper speaks during her press conference on her experience with the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at the Foreign Correspondents' Club ...
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U.S. nuclear chief wants faster reforms
Mother Nature Network (blog)
Even the relatively minor East Coast earthquake last year exceeded what Virginia's North Anna nuclear plant was built to withstand. (The quake shook North Anna twice as hard as its design allowed, and also rattled casks holding nuclear waste, ...
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Mother Nature Network (blog)
Japanese mark tsunami, quake a year after
Pioneer Press
At a theater in Tokyo, Japanese Emperor Akihito, 22 days after heart bypass surgery, stood for a moment of silence at 2:46 pm - the precise moment when one year ago a 9.0-magnitude earthquake pulsed 80 miles off Japan's northeastern coast.
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2012 March 12 06:06:45 UTC - U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake ...
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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
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Small Quake Strikes El Cerrito Area « CBS San Francisco
By bdisbrow
Earthquake, El Cerrito, magnitude, Quake, USGS. EL CERRITO (CBS SF) – A 2.3-magnitude earthquake was reported in El Cerrito this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was reported at 7:55 a.m. and had a depth of ...
CBS San Francisco
7 strange effects of Japan's earthquake - Holy Kaw!
It turns out that the massive quake affected everyone on Earth in some subtle way, as OurAmazingPlanet found when they did some digging and found seven very interesting and unusual effects. 7. Cracks in the sea floor. The earthquake...
Holy Kaw!
Quake rocks Pakistan
Quake rocks Pakistan...Earthquake tremors were felt at about 11.30 a.m. i...The epicentre of the earthquake was located at a d...A series of aftershocks followed the earthquake cr...
Daily Disasters News
Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Salinas - latimes.com
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Thursday morning near Salinas, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:31 a.m. ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../earthquake-32-quake-strikes-near-...
Radio New Zealand : News : Christchurch Earthquake : Quake fraud ...
Quake fraud charges laid against property developer. Updated at 6:17 pm on 28 February 2012. Fraud charges have been laid against a Christchurch property ...
www.radionz.co.nz/.../quake-fraud-charges-laid-against-prope...
Quake Anniversary: Japan Alpine Region Wants Foreign Visitors to ...
March 10, 2012 Quake Anniversary: Japan Alpine Region Wants Foreign Visitors to Return Ivan Broadhead | Nagano, Japan A year after the 2011earthquake, ...
www.voanews.com/.../Quake-Anniversary-Japan-Alpine-Regi...
Japan – 366 days after the Quake… - Earthquake Report
From historical quakes and looking at business interruption, for a $280 billion direct economic loss from this earthquake, around $110 billion (2-yr) to $220...
earthquake-report.com/.../japan-366-days-after-the-quake-190...
Quake risk sees rental movement | Hawkes Bay News | Local News ...
Earthquake-prone buildings are changing the competitive ranking of buildings... Quake risk sees rental movement | Hawkes Bay News | Local News in Hawkes ...
www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/quake-risk-sees.../1287326/
Japan Quake Aids Calif.'s Future Warning System | Japan ...
That is especially true in the United States, which may not be as prepared for a major quake as Japan, where a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck ...
www.ouramazingplanet.com/2592-japan-quake-helps-californ...
Prayers, tears as Japan marks 1 year since massive earthquake ...
Japan gathered Sunday amid tears, prayers and a moment of silence to mark one year since a massive earthquake and tsunami killed thousands.
www.cnn.com/2012/03/11/world/asia/japan.../index.html
A year after Japan quake, unknowns and worries linger | nuclear ...
News: A year after Japan quake, unknowns and worries linger | nuclear, tsunami, earthquake, quake, plant, buildings, california, known, san, japan.
www.ocregister.com/.../nuclear-343970-tsunami-earthquake.ht...
Cosmic Log - Quake experts upgrade their alerts
The California network, known as Earthquake Early Warning or ShakeAlert, has been in development since long before the magnitude-9.0 quake and tsunami ...
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_.../10602802-quake-experts-upgr...
Quake enigma: The more it shakes, the less it shows — RT
The 9. 0 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan's east coast exactly one year ago were not supposed to happen.
rt.com/news/earthquake-maps-tsunami-japan-279/
Haiti Earthquake 2012: 4.6 Magnitude Quake Strikes Near Port-au ...
A 4.6 magnitude earthquake has hit southern Haiti near the capital of Port-au- Prince. The United States Geological Survey says the earthquake was centered at ...
www.ibtimes.com/articles/311347/.../haiti-earthquake-2012.ht...
A year on: Tourism shudders in quake-hit Japan | CNNGo.com
A year on: Tourism shudders in quake-hit Japan. New research suggests Tokyo is next in line for a major earthquake. But will that keep visitors away?
www.cnngo.com/.../after-quake-japan-finished-tourist-destinat...
Earthquake: 3.1 quake strikes near Niland - Topix
Earthquake: 3.1 quake strikes near Niland. Full story: Los Angeles Times. A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning 2 miles from ...
www.topix.com/.../earthquake-3-1-quake-strikes-near-niland
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