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EARTHQUAKE News, Apr 30, 2012

New hotels arise amid ruins in Haitian capital
Atlanta Journal Constitution
In this April 26, 2012 photo, a man rearranges power lines in a camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This city is undergoing the largest hotel building boom in its history, raising expectations that investors will ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
New hotels constructed amid ruins in Haitian capital
Statesman Journal
Residents of a camp for those displaced by the 2010 earthquake are photographed Thursday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. / By Ramon Espinosa, AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Glimmers of hope are coming to this devastated capital and its surrounding cities, ...
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Small but widely felt quake shakes Southern Calif
Albany Times Union
The magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck at 8:07 am The US Geological Survey said it was centered about two miles northwest of Devore, in San Bernardino County. The quake was downgraded from an initial magnitude of 4.1. "It felt like a sonic boom," said ...
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Haiti capital to add hundreds of new hotel rooms, raising hope for more investment
Washington Post
In fact, the new hotels are the first significant private-sector construction in Port-au-Prince in the two years since the quake. “Cautious optimism and deep skepticism” is how economist Claude Beauboeuf describes Haiti's hotel boom.
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'Quake Cottage' simulates major earth tremor
Evansville Courier & Press
A new earthquake simulator nicknamed the "Quake Cottage" has the capabilities of producing a quake-like motion that mimics a tremor measuring 5.5 to 8.0 on the Richter Magnitude Scale. The Indiana Geological Survey — a research institute of Indiana ...
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3.8 Magnitude Quake Shakes Area
The Beverly Hills Courier
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck the Inland Empire at 8:07 am Saturday, with an epicenter in Cajon Pass near the San Andreas Fault at Devore. Automated sensors originally pegged the quake at magnitude 4.1, but scientists at Caltech and the USGS ...
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Weak bridge quake risk
Stuff.co.nz
Road planning team leader David Lane said investigations into earthquakeresilience had stepped up since the Christchurch quakes, and had exposed a serious weakness at the Milson Line overbridge. It would be at risk in a moderate earthquake, ...
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Moderate quake rattles Chile
Independent Online
By SAPA AP File photo - Firefighters inspect a building in downtown Santiago after an earthquake in central Chile. A moderate 5.5-magnitude earthquake rattled northern Chile on Monday, the latest in a series of temblors to rattle the country in recent ...
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Independent Online
Revisiting Indonesia's tsunami early warning system
Jakarta Post
Unlike the disastrous earthquake and tsunami of 2004, the latest temblors, measuring 8.5 and 8.2 on Richter scale respectively, puzzled many at the time of their occurences due to their magnitudes and locations. The epicenter of thequake, ...
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Chile Earthquake Today 2012 Felt in Argentina
LALATE
A 5.5 magnitude Chile earthquake today struck the community of Coquimbo. While centered off to shore, the Coquimbo temblor had a moderate depth. USGS indicates to news that the Coquimbo quake struck roughly twenty miles below sea level.
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Magnitude 4.1 earthquake rattles Californian homes
China Post
LOS ANGELES -- A moderate earthquake rattled Southern California on Saturday morning, shaking homes across the Inland Empire region and causing buildings to sway in downtown Los Angeles. The magnitude 4.1 quakestruck at 8:07 am (1507 GMT).
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Hotels, and hopes, rise in Haiti
Tampabay.com
The hotels are the first significant private-sector construction in Port-au-Prince in the two years since the quake. "Cautious optimism and deep skepticism" is how economist Claude Beauboeuf describes Haiti's hotel boom. For people to fill the hotels, ...
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Earthquake Simulator Offers Science Safety Tips
ClaimsJournal.com
An earthquake simulator known as the Quake Cottage mimics the shaking experienced in earthquakes of magnitudes from 5.5 to 8.0. The inside of the simulator resembles a living room and includes a large window so audiences can watch participants inside ...
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Moderate 5.5 quake rattles Chile—USGS
Inquirer.net (blog)
WASHINGTON—A moderate 5.5-magnitude earthquake rattled northern Chile on Monday, the latest in a series of temblors to rattle the country in recent months, according to the US Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage ...
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Prepping the GGB to survive a huge quake
SFBay
A $660 million seismic retrofit of the Golden Gate Bridge should allow the span to survive an 8.3 magintude earthquake. (Cary Bass/Wikimedia) By Natalie Thomas As the new Doyle Drive bypass went off this weekend without a hitch, important seismic ...
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SFBay
What's Really Behind Utah's Mock Earthquake Drill (SLV, GLD, UUP)
ETF Daily News
Get my next ALERT 100% FREE “Earthquake expert, Bob Kerry, says Utah has a one-in-four chance for a 7.0 quake in the next 50 years,” Utah's ABC4 News stated as the lead into the reporting of Utah's first mock emergency drill. The Euro's Demise Has Been ...
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Small Quake Rattles Southern California
The Epoch Times
Ashley Elledge, a resident of Crestline, told the Los Angeles Times that people were hardly disturbed when the quake struck. “We all looked at each other and said, 'That was an earthquake,'” she said. The USGS said the center of thequake was around ...
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3.5 magnitude quake hits Ormoc City
Inquirer.net
By Chona Yu MANILA, Philippines – A 3.5 magnitude earthquake struck Ormoc City before dawn on Monday, a Radyo Inquirer 990AM report said. Intensity 3 was felt in San Isidro and Calubian, Leyte as well as Naval, Biliran while Intensity 2 was experienced ...
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Japan Earthquake Today 2012 Strikes Near Fukushima
LALATE
The coast of Honshu, Japan was the scene of two strong earthquakes today April 30, 2012. No reports of injuries have yet to be detailed by local news. Honshu earthquake activity has continued this year, seemingly uninterrupted. But today, two quakes ...
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Lady Gaga auctioning teacup to help Japanese artists after quake
Mainichi Daily News
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- American pop star Lady Gaga on Monday put up for auction a teacup she used at a press conference in June last year in Tokyo, to raise funds to help young Japanese artists after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March last year, ...
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Quake shakes CHC tourism appeal
e-Travel Blackboard (press release)
“The widespread media coverage of the Christchurch Earthquake in late February 2011 and the subsequent June quake has caused the Christchurch/Canterbury region to lose appeal as a domestic holiday destination,” Ms Ianniello said.
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Churches deemed quake risk
Marlborough Express
The main Catholic Church in Marlborough is to shut next month and five other churches will have hazard notices attached to them because of earthquake risk. The Catholic Church is waiting for a detailed assessment from engineers about what to do about ...
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Marlborough Express
A Glimpse of What's Below: Logging While Drilling
Scientific American (blog)
The sixth thruster was damaged on March 11, 2011 when D/V Chikyu, with full crew and elementary students aboard, was struck by the tsunami caused by the Tohoku earthquake as it arrived at the port of Hachinohe. Thanks to quick thinking by the captain ...
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Scientific American (blog)
'Brittle' walls of city building won't stand long enough for escape in earthquake
Canada.com
If an earthquake strikes, Nanaimo city employees in the old annex building might not have enough time to put their emergency training into action. Seismic engineers have found "serious deficiencies" in the old city annex where close to 200 employees ...
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4.4 - Magnitude Earthquake Jolts Central Peru
Bernama
LIMA, April 30 (BERNAMA-NNN-ANDINA) - An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Ritcher scale hit Peru's central city of Cerro de Pasco Sunday, local authorities reported. According to Peru's Geophysical Institute (IGP), the tremor shook at 00:07 hours (05:07 ...
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Y'all can keep your twisters
Stockton Record
I didn't think it was a tremor until the subject of my assignment asked me if I felt the quake. That's two earthquakes that I've felt in 53 years of my life. The Midwest and the South have tornadoes. Every year there are whole seasons when the twisters ...
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Saturday's earthquake in Cajon Pass downgraded to 3.8; no damage or injuries ...
Fontana Herald-News
Residents of Fontana and other parts of the Inland Empire felt a strong jolt Saturday morning due to an earthquake in the Cajon Pass area which registered a magnitude of 3.8, according to preliminary reports by the US Geological Survey.
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Strong quake jolts northeast Chiba
The Japan Times
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 jolted Chiba Prefecture and its vicinity Sunday evening, coming in at lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 near its epicenter in the northeast, the Meteorological Agency said.
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M1.1 - Cobb, California 2012-04-30 16:32:57 UTC
Scientific Background on the Did You Feel It? Process. Technical. Location and Magnitude contributed by: Northern California Seismic System. Summary. Preferred Location Parameters. Parameter, Value, Uncertainty. Magnitude, 1.1 Md, ± ...
World Quake Warning
Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake 5km Deep At Wanaka | Stuff.co.nz
Otago and parts of Canterbury have been rocked by a shallow earthquakecentred just out of Wanaka.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Small Quake Rattles Southern California | West | United States ...
By Epoch Times
Ashley Elledge, a resident of Crestline, told the Los Angeles Times that people were hardly disturbed when the quake struck. “We all looked at each other and said, 'That was an earthquake,'” she said. The USGS said the center of thequake ...
Epoch Times
NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Quakes
The GPS earthquake detection capability was first demonstrated by NASA-supported research on a major 2004 Sumatra quake, conducted by Geoffrey Blewitt and colleagues at the University of Nevada in Reno. For more information about ...
YubaNet.com
Prepping the GGB to survive a huge quake - SFBay
By Natalie Thomas
Prepping the GGB to survive a huge quake. A $660 million seismic retrofit of the Golden Gate Bridge should allow the span to survive an 8.3 magintudeearthquake. (Cary Bass/Wikimedia). By Natalie Thomas. 8:35 am. April 30, 2012 ...
SFBay
Earthquake: 3.1 quake strikes near Indio - latimes.com
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Thursday morning nine miles from Indio, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../earthquake-31-quake-strikes-near-...
Magnitude 6.6 - NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/.../Quakes/usc00098nl.php
NASA's new earthquake monitoring network uses GPS for improved ...
NASA first tested the effectiveness of GPS tracking for measuringearthquakes in 2004 during a quake that hit Sumatra. [Image credit: Martin Luff]. (Source) ...
news.yahoo.com/.../nasa-earthquake-monitoring-network-uses...
Chile Earthquake: Magnitude 6.7 Quake Shakes Central Chile
Valparaiso, Chile -- A strong, magnitude-6.7 earthquakerocked central Chile late Monday ...
www.inquisitr.com/221273/chile-earthquake-2012-valparaiso/
Tokyo Earthquake 2012: 5.5-Magnitude Quake Rattles Japan Capital
A long earthquake shook Japan's capital Tokyo on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, according to reports. The preliminary magnitude reportedly was 5.5.
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../tokyo-earthquake-2012_n_1450...
Strong earthquake strikes Chile; no serious damage reported - CNN
A strong earthquake struck coastal Chile near the port city of Valparaiso late Monday, causing mudslides and some minor ... The 6.7-magnitude quakeknocked.
articles.cnn.com/.../world_americas_chile-quake_1_strong-eart...
Earthquake simulator raising awareness of quake dangers in ...
What's it like to experience an earthquake that registers 8.0 on the Richter Scale? Hoosiers can find out first-hand from the Quake Cottage, anearthquake ...
newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/22088.html
Mini quake shakes ACT
Seismograph reading from Canberra quake Photo: from Geoscience Australia... Mr Tatham said there have been four earthquakes in the region over the past ...
www.canberratimes.com.au/.../mini-quake-shakes-act-201204...
4.7-magnitude quake strikes off Vancouver Island - British Columbia ...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck about 200 kilometres west of Vancouver Island on Friday morning.
www.cbc.ca/news/.../bc-earthquake-vancouver-island.html
Devore Earthquake Downgraded to Magnitude 3.8 | NBC Los Angeles
The earthquake was reported at 8:07 a.m. at a depth of more than 6 miles. Initially reported at magnitude 4.1, the quake had been downgraded to magnitude 3.8 ...
www.nbclosangeles.com/.../Magnitude-41-Earthquake-Shakes...
In California Quake Research, Boring Is the Goal - NYTimes.com
In California Quake Research, Boring Is the Hoped-for Result. Sam Hodgson for The New York Times. Researchers conducted two earthquake simulations in ...
www.nytimes.com/.../in-california-quake-research-boring-is-th...
Devore Quake: 3.8-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Inland Empire ...
DEVORE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A 3.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Southern California Saturday morning and experts tracked the quake's epicenter to the Inland ...
www.ktla.com/news/.../ktla-devore-earthquake,0,2121603.stor..
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