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EARTHQUAKE News, May 13, 2012

Earthquake threat prompts questions at Midlands nuclear plant
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The operators of Columbia's 44-year-old nuclear fuel factory are trying to resolve federal questions about the plant's ability to withstand a majorearthquake. While the Westinghouse Electric Co. plant meets current safety standards, federal inspectors ...
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Chivas USA-Earthquakes Preview
FOXSports.com
The San Jose Earthquakes would like to start another one. Wondolowski looks to extend his career-best point streak to nine Sunday when theEarthquakes host Chivas in the first of three matches between these clubs in 2012.
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Earthquake Lake visitor center to be expanded
Helena Independent Record
BILLINGS (AP) — After 45 years of operation, the Earthquake Lake Visitor Center west of Yellowstone National Park is set to be enlarged and its interpretive displays renewed beginning this summer. “I think this whole thing is going to make for a much ...
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Earthquake fault discovered beneath Pasadena elementary school
Pasadena Star-News
By James Figueroa, SGVN Four earthquake faults have been discovered underneath the San Rafael Elementary school in Pasadena, forcing the district to cancel modernization plans and consider alternate options for the school's future Friday, May 11, 2012.
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Earthquake shakes Israel
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The 5.3 magnitude earthquake, which originated near Cyprus, was felt Friday night from Beersheba to Haifa. Hundreds of Israelis called police following the temblor. The last earthquake felt in Israel was a 3.8 temblor in December; a 5.9 magnitude ...
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Gold! Haiti eyes potential $20 billion bonanza
msnbc.com
By MARTHA MENDOZA TROU DU NORD, Haiti — Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is ...
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Moderate earthquake hits Tajikistan: USGS
Reuters
(Reuters) - A moderate earthquake of 5.7 magnitude struck near Kulob, Tajikistan, early on Sunday morning, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake hit 62 miles north northeast of Kulob at a depth of 6.2 miles, USGS said.
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Moderate earthquake shakes Tajikistan-Afghanistan border
MI News 26
DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- A moderate earthquake shook a number of towns in the Tajikistan and Afghanistan border region on early Sunday morning, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
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Parkfield quake study offers new clues on a California fault's mystery
San Jose Mercury News
LOS ANGELES — Thanks to a new method of modeling earthquakes, scientists may now understand why the Parkfield segment of the San Andreas fault — a carefully studied region known for producing moderate temblors every 20 years or so — has been ...
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Earthquake felt in Kutch
Indian Express
The earthquake had its epicentre at 34 km northwest of Khavada village in Kutch, officials at the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) said. Aftershocks measuring 2.3 on the Richter scale were felt in the afternoon around 3 pm, they said adding ...
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Earthquake Recap: Two Offshore Shakes
Patch.com
By Jacob Bourne Two small earthquakes made waves on the Richter scale in and around Santa Cruz County this week, with the largest measured at 2.0, offshore directly west of Ben Lomond. Generally, earthquakes that fail to break the 2-mark on the scale ...
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Moderate earthquake hits Tajikistan
The Sun Daily
PARIS (May 13, 2012): A moderate, 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck near the major Tajikistan city of Kulob early Sunday, the US Geological Survey reported. The epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 4:28 am (2328 GMT Saturday), was located at 99 ...
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3.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Geysers
KCRA Sacramento
The US Geological Survey is reporting that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.9 struck Sunday in Sonoma County. The temblor rattled an area near The Geysers, located about 24 miles north of Santa Rosa, at 5:38 am and had a depth of 1.8 ...
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Gold! Haiti hopes ore find will spur mining boom
Newsday
Haiti hopes ore find will spur mining boom Published: May 12, 2012 7:04 PM By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TROU DU NORD, Haiti - Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may ...
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Earthquake hits Tajikistan,One killed
SamayLive
One man was killed when a moderate,5.7 magnitudeearthquake struck in central Tajikistan on Sunday,damaging several buildings. Two buildings were completely destroyed, and several more were damaged, she said. The quake also caused a mudslide,burying ...
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Moderate earthquake kills one in Tajikistan
Emirates 24/7
One man was killed when a moderate, 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck in central Tajikistan early Sunday, damaging several buildings. The most damage occurred in the country's Garm district, where one man was killed by a collapsing wall, Nargis Nurova of ...
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Israel earthquake list
Earthquake Report
Felt indoors; hanging objects may swing, vibration similar to passing of light trucks, duration may be estimated, may not be recognized as anearthquake. Generally noticed indoors but not outside. Light sleepers may be awakened.
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Lucky strike: Lightning brings seismic surprise
msnbc.com
He was watching from the window of the university'searthquake observatory in Bensberg, a small town outside of Cologne, as lightning struck a nearby hotel. Less than a minute later, a flash took out a tree next to the earthquake lab itself, ...
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msnbc.com
5.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Israel, Lebanon
Updated News
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook the eastern Mediterranean on Friday night, with locals in countries throughout the Levant reporting the quake. The United States Geological Survey's website said the quake at a depth of 19.8 km. occurred in the sea ...
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Updated News
Green earthquake alert (5.7M,depth:10km) in Tajikistan (Kalay-Khodzha) 12/5 23 ...
Newsroom America
By Newsroom America Feeds at 12 May 19:50 On 5/12/2012 11:28:43 PM UTC (about 04:10h local time) an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 occurred in the highly populated region of Dushanbe in Tajikistan. The earthquakehappened 143km from Duchambe.
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Fake shake tests for earthquakes
Cosmos
by Selina Haefeli SYDNEY: Engineers have put a state-of-the-art building to the test, by shaking it at a range of frequencies to imitate a real earthquake. For the past six months, engineer Behzad Fatahi and postgraduate students at the University of ...
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Cosmos
Chevron Begins Marketing LNG Down Under
Wall Street Journal (blog)
“The LNG demand picture has changed significantly post-Fukushima,” Mr. Krzywosinski said, referring to the Japanese nuclear plant disaster that followed a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. “It just keeps going up and up.
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Plan for Japan quake debris advances
UPI.com
OSAKA, Japan, May 13 (UPI) -- An agreement has been reached in Japan for the disposal of the ashes from earthquake debris on a man-made island, officials said. The prefecture of Osaka and various city governments agreed to the proposal to have the ash ...
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Most temblors are no great shakes
Longview News-Journal
Now we're reminded that East Texas has earthquakes, too. On Thursday morning, the Nacogdoches County town of Garrison, 65 miles southeast of Longview, had a 3.7 magnitude earthquake that shook buildings and more than a few residents.
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In case of emergency: Training to 'prepare, survive, thrive'
Times-Standard
When the Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake struck, Judith Warren was “half in and half out of a dress” in one of the changing rooms at the Emporium-Capwell in San Jose. The magnitude 6.9 quake lasted for 10-15 seconds, knocking out electricity and ...
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Ambassador says Haiti is ready for international investment
Canada.com
The Caribbean nation's history and recent events, particularly the devastatingearthquake of January 2010, have done little to change that perception. It's a fact acknowledged by Haiti's first ambassador to Canada in nearly six years, Frantz Liautaud, ...
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From paradise to panic
The Province
The loss of life from the undersea earthquake which triggered the South Asian tsunami would eventually reach an estimated toll of 280000, making it one of the six largest natural disasters in recorded history. Yet somehow, the little girl with the ...
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Magnitude 5.7 - TAJIKISTAN - Earthquake Hazards Program - USGS
By U.S. Geological Survey
Please use our new Real-time Earthquake Map to access the latestearthquake information and event details. The links to the World, US, and CA/NV maps that were in the navigation on the left side of the page have been replaced by the links ...
USGS M 2.5+ Earthquakes
Caltech Researchers Gain Greater Insight into Earthquake Cycles
May 10, 2012 - For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault—both during anearthquake and at times of "rest"—in order to know more about how a particular region may behave ...
YubaNet.com
5.7 earthquake in Tajikistan kills one and buries herds of livestock ...
By The Extinction Protocol
May 13, 2012 – TAJIKISTAN - One man was killed when a moderate, 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck in central Tajikistan early Sunday, damaging several buildings. The most damage occurred in the country's Garm district, where one man ...
The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond
Moderate earthquake shakes Tajikistan-Afghanistan border ...
By BNO News
DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- A moderate earthquake shook a number of towns in the Tajikistan and Afghanistan border region on early Sunday morning, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or ...
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En Passant » A political earthquake hits Greece
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En Passant - Revolutionary reflections on this world of ours.
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USGS: Moderate earthquake hits Tajikistan - Israel - eWallstreeter
A moderate earthquake of 5.7 magnitude struck near Kulob, Tajikistan, early on Sunday morning, according to the US Geological Survey.The earthquakehit 100 kilometers north northeast of Kulob at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km), USGS said.
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5.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Israel, Lebanon - Updated News
By admin (online)
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook the eastern Mediterranean on Friday night, with locals in countries throughout the Levant reporting the quake. The United States Geological Survey's website said the quake at a depth of 19.8 km. occurred in ...
Updated News
Earthquake measuring 5.4 hits North-East India, tremors felt in ...
An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Guwahati in Assam and Shillong in Meghalaya at about 6.15 this evening. Tremors were felt in other parts of the ...
www.ndtv.com/.../earthquake-measuring-5-4-hits-north-east-i...
5.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Israel, ... JPost - National News
Earthquake felt as far north as Safed, in Jerusalem; epicenter near Cyprus; no injuries, damages reported after tectonic event.
www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=269610
Greater insight into earthquake cycles
For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault -- both during an earthquake and at times of " rest" ...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510142003.htm
Chilean Earthquake Restores Beaches: Scientific American
A big earthquake raised the coast several meters in places, reversing recent years of beach erosion.
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=chilean...restores...
Why Was A Huge 'Rogue Earthquake' Not Destructive? : NPR
The massive magnitude 8.6 earthquake in April off the coast of Indonesia was felt from Bangladesh to Australia. But it caused little damage and no major tsunami ...
www.npr.org/.../why-was-a-huge-rogue-earthquake-not-destru...
Earthquake Azerbaijan : 3123 constructions damaged (a lot ...
Earthquake overview : At 09:40 local time a Mb5.6 earthquake struck Zaqatala Azerbaijan, also close to Georgia and Dagestan. 10 hours later an almost similar ...
earthquake-report.com/.../dangerous-earthquake-in-the-azerba...
Chile earthquake, tsunami altered ecosystems - Technology ...
The earthquake and tsunami that rocked Chile in 2010 unleashed substantial and surprising changes on ecosystems there, yielding insights on how these ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../chile-quake-tsunami-altered-ecosyste...
Fears increase of big earthquake near Tokyo in the foreseeable ...
A prominent Japanese seismologist rattled some nerves when he declared there was a 70 percent chance of a major earthquake in or around Tokyo — in the ...
www.pri.org/.../fears-increase-of-big-earthquake-near-tokyo-i...
Moderate earthquake hits Tajikistan: USGS - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake of 5.7 magnitude struck near Kulob, Tajikistan, early on Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake hit 62 ...
news.yahoo.com/moderate-earthquake-hits-tajikistan-usgs-235...
Chile Earthquake And Tsunami Dramatically Altered Ecosystems
By Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor: The earthquake and tsunami that rocked Chile in 2010 unleashed substantial and surprising changes on ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../chile-earthquake-tsunami-altered-...
The Earthquake in Greece - By Louis Klarevas | Foreign Policy
Sunday's elections in Greece have shaken markets around the world, fearful that a country suddenly thrust into political chaos won't be able to pay its crushing ...
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/.../the_earthquake_in_greece
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