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EARTHQUAKE News, Mar 14, 2012

Strong quakes shake Japan, but no apparent damage
Fox News
TOKYO – A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. A magnitude-6.8 earthquake first struck the southern coast of ...
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6.1 magnitude quake comes shortly after island nation rattled by 6.8earthquake
New York Daily News
There was no immediate report of damage or injury from the second quake. A strong, 6.8 earthquake shook northern Japan earlier in the evening on Wednesday, causing small tidal changes on its Pacific coastline but no damage or injury was reported.
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New York Daily News
Strong Quakes Rattle Japan, but Cause No Damage
ABC News
(ABCNEWS.com) A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The strongest was a magnitude 6.8 that struck off ...
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ABC News
Strong quake shakes Tokyo region
Atlanta Journal Constitution
There was no immediate report of damage or injury from the second quake. The tremor earlier Wednesday evening caused small swelling of water on the northern coast, including part of the region hit by last year's massiveearthquake and tsunami THIS IS A ...
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Japan rattled by 6.8 earthquake
Christian Science Monitor
Across Japan, people paused at 2:46 pm - the moment the magnitude-9.0 quake struck a year ago - for moments of silence, prayer and reflection. A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday evening but caused no apparent...
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Christian Science Monitor
Magnitude 6.1 quake jolts eastern Japan, no tsunami warning
Reuters
The earthquake, which caused substantial shaking in Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures east of Tokyo, followed just a few hours after a magnitude 6.8quake jolted northern Japan. A tsunami warning was issued but later lifted after that earthquake.
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Washington Monument may be sinking, official says
CNN
The monument, the tallest structure in the nation's capital, has been closed since the magnitude 5.8 quake struck the mid-Atlantic region near Richmond, Virginia. The earthquake may be responsible for the monument to have sunk 1 millimeter, ...
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Quakes Shake Japan, No Apparent Damage
TIME
14, 2012 (TOKYO) — A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday evening, but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The first tremor off Hokkaido island was 6.8 ...
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Strong quake shakes northern Japan; no damage seen
Atlanta Journal Constitution
No damage or injury was reported from the quake so far, he said. Iwate was heavily damaged by last year's earthquake and tsunami. Thousands of aftershocks have shaken the region since then, nearly all of them of minor or moderate strength.
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Earthquake shakes Tokyo after 1 causes small tsunami in northern Japan, but no ...
Washington Post
About 9 pm local time, a magnitude-6.1 quake shook buildings in the capital. It was centered just off the coast of Chiba, east of Tokyo, at a rather shallow 15 kilometers (9 miles) deep. Narita International Airport briefly closed runways for...
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Two Quakes Strike Off Japan's Coast
Wall Street Journal
By PHRED DVORAK TOKYO—An earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Japan, shaking buildings in Tokyo but not causing any reported damage. It was the second large tremor to hit Japan on Wednesday, following a quake that struck off the northern island ...
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Did Washington Monument sink or tilt from quake?
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By BEN NUCKOLS AP WASHINGTON — The Washington Monument cracked and crumbled when a 5.8-magnitudeearthquake shook the nation's capital last year. But did it sink or tilt? Ned Wallace of the National Park Service stands over a manhole at the base of ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Japan Earthquake 2012: Tokyo Airport, Bullet Trains Close After 6.8Quake ...
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter: Subscribe to IBTimes's RSS feed A year after the worst post-war natural disaster in Japan, anearthquake and several other quakes followed by a tsunami struck Japan's northern coastline on Wednesday according to officials, ...
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International Business Times
Quakes Rattle Tokyo, Northeastern Japan
Voice of America (blog)
A series of earthquakes sent jitters through Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday, but caused no apparent damage or injury. Seismologists say the first quake, a 6.8 magnitude temblor off Hokkaido island, struck some 700 kilometers northeast of ...
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Strong earthquake hits northeastern Japan, causes small tsunami
National Post
By Shingo Ito TOKYO — A tsunami hit Japan's northeastern coastline on Wednesday, officials said, after a strong earthquakerocked the region almost exactly a year on from the country's worst post-war natural disaster. A 6.9-magtinude quake struck 26.6 ...
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National Post
Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Japanese coast, tsunami wave hits coast
Herald Sun
... Japan's northeastern coastline 6.8 magnitude quake struck around 210km off the coast Agency confirmed an earlier 10cm wave had hit land A small tsunami wave has hit Japan's northeastern coastline, officials say, after a strong earthquake rocked the ...
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Earthquake, small tsunami rattle Japan
Mother Nature Network
Little apparent damage is caused by series of quakes that rattle northeastern Japan, which just marked the year anniversary of last year's devastating tsunami. By By Agence France-PresseWed, Mar 14 2012 at 8:39 AM EST A YEAR LATER: Almost to the year ...
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Mother Nature Network
Strong quake shakes northern Japan
Detroit Free Press
TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake has shaken northern Japan, and regional tsunami advisories have been issued. The Japan Meteorological Agency said Wednesday evening's earthquake was 6.8 preliminary magnitude off the coast.
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Japan Earthquake 2012: 6.8 Quake Results in Small Tsunami on Northern Coast
International Business Times
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook northern Japan Wednesday east of Tokyo, causing a small tsunami on the northern coastline. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the first quake was magnitude 6.8 and the second was 6.1 off the coast of Chiba ...
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Strong quakes shake Japan
Sydney Morning Herald
AP A series of earthquakes have rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan, but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The first tremor off Hokkaido island on Wednesday evening was 6.8 magnitude and ...
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No damage reported after quake in Japan
Reuters
| TOKYO (Reuters) - There were no immediate reports of damage after northern Japan was hit by an earthquake which the Japan Meteorological Agency said had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8. A tsunami warning was issued but later lifted, ...
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Earthquake Today: Large Quakes Hit Japan, Causing Small Tsunami
Christian Post
The quakes have hit just days after Japan marked the first anniversary of the huge magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that left about 19000 people dead or missing. That tsunami sparked the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
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No damage reported after quake in north Japan; 50 cm tsunami warning issued
Reuters
| TOKYO (Reuters) - There were no immediate reports of damage after northern Japan was hit by an earthquake which the Japan Meteorological Agency said had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8. The epicenter of the quakewas in the Pacific Ocean off the coast ...
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6.8-magnitude Quake Rocks Northeastern Japan
RTT News
(RTTNews) - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted the Pacific side of Hokkaido and north-east Japan regions on Wednesday, reports quoting the US Geological Survey and Japanese Meteorological agency said. The quakeregistered 4 on the Japanese seismic ...
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No more Fukushimas: US plants still face risks
Kansas City Star
In August, a 5.8 earthquake 11 miles from Virginia's North Anna nuclear power plant, which is 70 miles from Washington DC, rattled nerves in Baltimore and far beyond. The quake caused twice the amount of ground movement for which North Anna was ...
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Japan Earthquake 2012: Tokyo Region Hit By Strong Quake
By The Huffington Post News Editors
TOKYO — A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The strongest was a magnitude 6.8 that struck off ...
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Japan Earthquake 2012: Strong Quake Shakes North, No Damages
By The Huffington Post News Editors
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press TOKYO -- A series of earthquakesrattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami.
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World News - Earthquakes jolt Japan's tsunami-hit region, Tokyo
By Reuters
Updated at 9:41 a.m. ET: TOKYO -- A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The strongest tremor ...
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Japan tsunami warning lifted as 6.8 quake hits northeastern coast
The national meteorological agency issued a tsunami advisory that was later lifted after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan. A quake measuring 6.1 later hit eastern Japan.
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Japan 6.9 Earthquake, Foreshock to Larger, Massive Quake ...
By LBG1
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, Japan was rocked by a series of powerfulearthquakes between 7 and 9 PM, Japan time, off the east coast of Honshu. The stron...
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2012 March 14 09:08:37 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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Strong quake rocks Tokyo region hours after 6.8 off-shore tremor — RT
By RT
Quake enigma: The more it shakes, the less it shows. The 9.0 magnitudeearthquake and the subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan's east coast exactly one year ago were not supposed to happen. At least if seismic hazard maps are not ...
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Japan Earthquake Today 2012 Doesn't Prompt Honshu Tsunami Alert
By lalate
A series of strong Japanese earthquakes today have struck the region. The most recent Japan quakes today 2012 have progressively decreased in magnitude. USGS reports to news that four quake have struck the region in recent hours, ...
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Strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake shakes northern Japan | Earth ...
By Deborah Byrd
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook northern Japan today, in much the same region heavily damaged by the March 11, 2011 quake and tsunami of a year ago.
EarthSky
Demolish earthquake death traps - widower | Stuff.co.nz
By David Williams
Local Government New Zealand president Lawrence Yule said councils were reviewing quake policies but to get all commercial buildings to a "safe" level could take more than a decade. "We live in an earthquake-prone area of the world.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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 ...
Quake inquiry to focus on new building technologies. Updated 6 minutes ago. New building technologies that could change the way central Christchurch is ...
www.radionz.co.nz/.../quake-inquiry-to-focus-on-new-buildin...
Japan Earthquake 2012: Tokyo Region Hit By Strong Quake
TOKYO — A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../japan-earthquake-2012-tokyo_n_...
6.1 magnitude quake comes shortly after island nation rattled by ...
There was no immediate report of damage or injury from the second quake. A strong, 6.8 earthquake shook northern Japan earlier in the evening on Wednesday, ...
www.nydailynews.com/.../japan-rocked-6-8-earthquake-small-...
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 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...
Quake catastrophe like Japan's could hit Pacific Northwest, new ...
The last mega-quake was in 1906 near San Francisco, but large earthquakesof magnitude 6.0 or above are relatively common in historical terms, ...
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Japan Earthquake 2012: 6.8 Quake Results in Small Tsunami on ...
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook northern Japan Wednesday east of Tokyo, causing a small ...
tv.ibtimes.com/japan-earthquake-2012-6-8.../4128.html
Second strong earthquake rattles Tokyo after 6.9 quake strikes ...
TOKYO — A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit ...
www.nypost.com/.../quake_shakes_japan_causes_small_mGR...
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/
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