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FORBES News, Jan 06, 2012

The World's Friendliest Countries
Forbes
To determine which were the friendliest, Forbes isolated the results in four categories: ability to befriend locals, success in learning the local language, capacity for integrating themselves into the community, and ease in which they fit into the new ...
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Li Tops Hong Kong Rich List as Wealthy Get Poorer, Forbes Says
San Francisco Chronicle
New World Development Co. Chairman Cheng Yu-tung is the biggest gainer on theForbes list. His wealth jumped $6 billion to $15 billion after an initial public offering of subsidiary Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd. last month, according to Forbes. ...
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Marsh acquires Alexander Forbes unit
Business Day
THE local unit of US-based global insurance and risk management group Marsh & McLennan has completed its acquisition of Alexander Forbes's risk business and expects soon to finalise the purchase of other businesses in five markets. ...
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Corporate Boards: Shifting From Aging Men To New Generation Of Women?
Forbes
BC Forbes, the founder of FORBES magazine, dedicated the first issue to women in business. “Forbes believes her achievements are wide,” he wrote, predicting that women “will soon sit on boards beside men.” That was in 1917, recalled BC's granddaughter, ...
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Forbes
CES: ViewSonic Launching Android Smartphone, Its First For US Market
Forbes
The Taipei-based company tells Forbes it will be showing a new Google Android-based handset at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The phone, dubbed ViewPhone 3, is aimed at Latin American consumers, but will also be available in the US, ...
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Forbes
Harry Potter - Watson And Grint Are Hollywood's Top Earning On-screen Couple
Contactmusic.com
The pair - who played Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley in the wizard franchise - topped the list compiled by Forbes after banking $4.2 billion between them at the global box office in four movies in the series in the last five years. ...
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Contactmusic.com
Top picks 2012: Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold
MSN Money
It's the biggest copper miner in the world. It owns the mining rights to three of the world's largest copper mines -- one in Utah, one in Indonesia and one in South America. In addition, according to the 2011 Forbes 2000 list, Freeport is also the ...
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MSN Money
Auto Expo 2012 Mahindra
3D Car Shows
In 2011, Mahindra featured on the Forbes Global 2000 list, a listing of the biggest and most powerful listed companies in the world. For four years in a row, Mahindra has featured in the Forbes Asia's Fab 50 List of the 50 best publicly traded ...
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3D Car Shows
Cognizant Schedules Fourth-Quarter 2011 Earnings Release and Conference Call
Sacramento Bee
With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and 130000 employees as of September 30, 2011, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing...
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Opportunities Await Patient Investors
Moneyshow.com
By Marc Gerstein, Editor, Forbes Low-Priced Stock Report There's no doubt last year was a tough year, but it's not time to give up or give in, writes Marc Gerstein of ForbesLow-Priced Stock Report. The month ending December 15 was another dismal one ...
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Chrome powers ahead
Asia Times Online
Co-chairmen Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie may be replaced this month according to a report by Forbes. A board restructure also appears to be imminent. The company lost a huge share of its largest market, the US, and its stock plummeted over 70% last ...
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World Bank Economist Blames America For Its Wealth
Investor's Business Daily
According to the 2011 Forbes billionaire's list, Venezuela has a grand total of two billionaires in a population of 28 million people, vs. the US' 412 billionaires in a nation of 307 million. Democratically deficient Venezuela has one billionaire per ...
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HFT Firms Brace for a New, Bolder SEC
Advanced Trading
For starters, the regulator is expected to resume its focus on equity market structure and weigh in on the role of high-frequency traders, which David Dreman, a respected contrarian investor, compared in a recent Forbes blog post to vultures swooping ...
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Republican Presidential Candidates Win Climate BS of the Year Award
PlanetSave.com
Both the paper and the testimony received lavish attention from climate contrarians (including an especially absurd piece from the Heartland Institute, published as a Forbesblog post) and both were extensively and surgically debunked by the scientific ...
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Delivering the cloud business agenda
Financial Times
According to a recent study by KPMG and Forbes Insights (Clarity in the cloud: Aglobal study of the business adoption of cloud), more than 80 per cent of businesses are already either planning, experimenting with, or implementing some form of cloud ...
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Obama unveils strategy for slimmed-down military
USA TODAY
"Our strategy has always been about our ability to respond to globalcontingencies wherever and whenever they happen," Dempsey said. "This does not change." Rep. Randy Forbes, a Virginia Republican who chairs a committee on military readiness, ...
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USA TODAY
Nokia bets on smart devices to tap into high-end market
Jakarta Post
Sales of the Nokia Lumia abroad have not set the world alight. Forbesreported in December that, based on a BNP Paribas survey, only 2 percent of Europeans were interested in purchasing the smartphone. The share of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 in ...
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Jakarta Post
A Guide to the New Hampshire Debates
FactCheck.org
The ad cites a Forbes editorial, which compared one part of Romney's plan — not “parts of it” — to Obama's policies. The part? Romney's “support for a weak dollar policy.” Specifically, Forbes opposes Romney's promise to sanction China for unfair ...
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Obama speaks about the Defense Strategic Review at the Pentagon in Washington ...
Daily Press
Randy Forbes, R-Chesapeake, said the administration settled on budget cuts first, then devised a strategy to meet that goal. Obama, Panetta and others insisted it was the other way around: Their strategy came first, and it will work best against future ...
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Daily Press
Place Trade CEO, Sarah Place, Quoted in SmartMoney Magazine
PR.com (press release)
Sarah has been honored to be included in ABC 11 Eyewitness News, AOL.com, Bankrate.com, CNBC.com, Consumer Reports Money Adviser, Forbes.com, Fox News Radio, SmartMoney - The Wall Street Journal Magazine and Yahoo! Finance as well as being featured in ...
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Black American income inequality
Milwaukee Courier Weekly Newspaper
According to the US Department of Commerce and the US Census Bureau, in 2010-2011, the poverty rate in the US reached its highest level since 1933 while the Forbes 400, an annual listing of America's richest individuals inflation-adjusted net worth, ...
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Milwaukee Courier Weekly Newspaper
Public Storage Announces Pricing of 5.90% Cumulative Preferred Shares of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Public Storage, a member of the S&P 500, The Forbes Global 2000 and FT Global 500, is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that primarily acquires, develops, owns and operates self-storage facilities. ...
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When the Wealthy Dig Deep for a Cause, Look Out for the Influence They Purchase
Jakarta Globe
The ultimate goal is to enlist all 400 of Forbes's wealthiest Americans, which would amount to $600 billion in pledges. With coordination, this kind of money can change theworld, but in what way? Generous philanthropic gifts in public policy areas can ...
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Cobra Electronics Kicks Off Another Year of Excitement and Innovation in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Consumer Electronics Association, Forbes and Deloitte & Touche have all recognized Cobra for the company's innovation and industry leadership. To learn more about Cobra Electronics, please visit the Cobra site at www.cobra.com . ...
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Removal of Fuel Subsidy in Nigeria: What You Need To Know
Modern Ghana
The result is that subsidy money goes into unproductive side of the economy encouraging the production of pure water billionaires like those rated from Nigeria by Forbes. These people are opportunists who end up sponsoring Boko Haram, Hajj, ...
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Modern Ghana
April in January (nearly 900 record highs in the last week; subzero by Jan. 17 ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Climate scientist Peter Gleick has the honors at forbes.com: "The Earth's climate continued to change during 2011 – a year in which unprecedented combinations of extreme weather events killed people and damaged property around the world. ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
dbaDIRECT Names Steven A. Knight Chief Information Security and Risk Officer
Insurance News Net (press release)
The company manages thousands of infrastructure components for customers worldwide, many of which are Fortune 1000 and Forbes Private 500 firms. Its international Data Operations Center is headquartered in Greater Cincinnati . ...
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Incorporation of Subsidiary
4-traders (press release)
To date, Boustead has undertaken infrastructure-related projects in 79 countriesglobally. In 2008 and 2009, Boustead was recognised in the prestigious Forbes Asia 200 Best Under A Billion as one of the Asia Pacific's 200 best public-listed ...
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Success is going off the scale for Ally
Aberdeen Press and Journal
Ally, who has teamed up with musician Donald Forbes, from Inverness, also performs under the name Red Hook Rapids and have recently supported musical luminaries including the Lush Rollers. To post a comment, please login using the form at the top of...
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Top 10 events in 2011 at Zhongguancun
China Daily
Baidu ranks No 1 on Forbes magazine's "Top 10 Internet Websites outside the United States". Sina Corporation is listed at No 6. BOE Technology's 8.5G TFT-LCD line begins mass production in September, illustrating the Chinese mainland has the ability to ...
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Place Trade CEO, Launches Place Tax to Offer Discount Tax Preparation Services
PR.com (press release)
Sarah has been honored to be included in ABC 11 Eyewitness News, AOL.com, Bankrate.com, CNBC.com, Consumer Reports Money Adviser, Forbes.com, Fox News Radio, SmartMoney - The Wall Street Journal Magazine and Yahoo! Finance as well as being featured in ...
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2012 feared to see leadership shortages
inAudit
The “Talent Edge 2020” survey series is conducted in collaboration withForbes Insights to identify important trends driving corporate talent strategies and track how companies are responding to shifting economic realities. ...
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inAudit
Clean Energy Innovation Roundup (1-6-2012)
Innovation Policy Blog (blog)
Forbes highlights 12 clean tech projects currently under development and demonstration through DOD's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). These projects hold the possibility of spinning off into breakthrough commercial ...
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Business Matters: EMI Sues Grooveshark (Again), Pandora Takes Longview, Sirius ...
Billboard.biz
Fast Company's theoretical pairing of Pandora and Spotify came on the same dayForbes.com ran a piece that called Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek "the most important man in music." With so much attention on sexy Spotify, non-interactive webcasting can...
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5 Stocks Investors Are Buying Like Crazy
Seeking Alpha
Ford Motor Company has been moving up, a new article from Forbes suggests that Ford's business is rapidly improving. KPMG surveyed 200 top-level auto executives, and the general consensus appears to be that Ford is back on the rise. ...
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Analysts Air Concerns Over Salesforce.com's Outlook
IT Business Edge (blog)
Writing for Forbes, the Trefis analysts say that while Salesforce applications offer more functionality, Zoho's lower pricing "could help Zoho attract small and medium-sized businesses that are much more cost-conscious than their enterprise ...
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Comex Gold Dips Sharply On Global Economic News ... - Forbes
(Kitco News) - Comex February gold futures lost nearly 2% of their intrinsic value Wednesday, responding to bearish news from Europe, China and India, which ...
www.forbes.com/.../comex-gold-dips-sharply-on-global-econ...
Why The Web And Global Financial Systems Need Female ... - Forbes
By Twain Liup (Founder, Senseus) The global financial crisis is causing $100+ trillion of... The World's Most Powerful People .... Women 2.0's News Stream ...
www.forbes.com/.../why-the-web-and-global-financial-system...
MF Global Fight Unites Onetime Rivals - Forbes
But that has changed since MF Global collapsed on Oct. 31. ... Forbes writers have the ability to call out member comments they find ... Emily's News Stream ...
www.forbes.com/sites/.../mf-global-fight-unites-onetime-rivals...
Finding Big Foot, Finding Global Warming - Forbes
I write about energy and environment issues, frequently focusing on global warming. I have presented environmental analysis on CNN, CNN Headline News , ...
www.forbes.com/.../finding-big-foot-finding-global-warming/
New Rules for Radicals, #2 -- "The Moment" - Forbes
An even larger part of the world has been [. ... The fact that the world was watching — and much of it celebrating — civilian uprisings .... Giovanni's News Stream ...
www.forbes.com/sites/.../new-rules-for-radicals-2-the-moment/
This Just In: CommTouch Says Internet Threats On The Rise - Forbes
Forbes writers have the ability to call out member comments they find ... Entrepreneur,global nomad, cocktail detective, distance swimmer, news & tech junkie, ...
www.forbes.com/.../this-jus-in-commtouch-says-internet-threat...
News International and the Charlotte Church Countdown ... - Forbes
Earlier this year The Guardian aided in killing off The Sun's sister, Sunday, paper, theNews of the World. By informing the world that the voice mails on Milly ...
www.forbes.com/.../news-international-and-the-charlotte-chur...
2012 Prediction No. 9: App Overload Sets In - Forbes
Illustration: Calder Global Networks This is one of a series of 2012 predictions I'm making for Internet media and ... + Follow on Forbes .... Robert's News Stream ...
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News Analysis: Lithium Technologies Adds $53M in ... - Forbes
The World's Most Powerful People ... + Follow on Forbes · Tech. |. 1/05/2012 @ 9 24AM. News Analysis: Lithium Technologies Adds $53M in Financing ...
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EARTHQUAKE News, Jan 06, 2012

Quake expert quizzed on 'toxic secrets'
New Zealand Herald
By Jarrod Booker Dr Kelvin Berryman describes the likely pattern of quakes for Canterbury in future years. Photo / Simon Baker Earthquake experts insist they are not hiding sensitive information that might cause panic as anxious Christchurch residents ...
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Earthquake: 3.4 quake strikes near Coachella
Los Angeles Times
A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Friday morning seven miles from Coachella, according to the US Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 8:58 am Pacific time at a depth of 1.2 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 10 miles...
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Earthquake: 3.0 quake strikes near Isla Vista
Los Angeles Times
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday evening, three miles from Isla Vista, according to the US Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:14 pm Pacific time at a depth of 4.3 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was three ...
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Can Fracking Cause Quakes?
Discovery News
State officials shut down all drilling around a brine-injection well after a magnitude 4.0quake rumbled through the Youngstown, Ohio, on New Year's Eve day. That was the 11th earthquake in 2011 in the region, which is not considered seismically active ...
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Injection well owner funding study re: Youngstown quakes
Gas Business Briefing
... a link between the well and the dozen earthquakes in the Youngstown area since November, Gas Business Briefing notes. The most severe quake, with a 4.0 magnitude, occurred December 31, prompting the state to shut down D&L's operations on Monday....
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Earthquake: 3.1 quake strikes near Joshua Tree
Los Angeles Times
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Thursday evening, 8 miles from Joshua Tree, according to the US Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:47 pm Pacific time at a depth of 3.7 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 9 miles...
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Ancient temple restored 107 years after quake
gulfnews.com
The foundation of the Bharari Devi temple, located in Sarah village near Dharamsala town in Kangra district, was damaged when the Kangra Valley witnessed a devastatingearthquake in 1905, killing more than 20000 people. The quake had tilted the temple,...
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Quake victim's parents praised
Worcester Telegram
It was an earthquake.” Massachusetts Haitian-Americans have applauded the couple's efforts since they embarked on the orphanage project after Britney Gengel, 19, died Jan. 12, 2010, in the collapse of her hotel in Port-au-Prince, the capital of the ...
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Warren Man Selling Fracking T-Shirts After Quake
WKBN/WYFX-TV
The recent earthquakes in the area helped shake an idea into the head of a Warren T-shirt shop owner. Tim Drummond said he got the idea to create a shirt, which boldly says "Another Fracking Earthquake" after learning of Saturday's 4.0 magnitude quake....
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Clients of Ansvar race to get cover
Stuff.co.nz
The company has not offered quake insurance since September 2011. Ansvar chief executive Andrew Moon said last week that the Bridges and Ansvar Australia options gave policyholders some security as they would be eligible for Earthquake Commission (EQC) ...
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Australia's Suncorp Updates Melbourne Storm, NZ Quake Loss Estimates
Insurance Journal
Australia's Suncorp Group Limited's preliminary estimates of the financial impacts of the recent Melbourne hailstorm and Christchurch earthquake are between A$200 and A$250 million [US$204.9 to US$256.1 million]. Suncorp added that its “reinsurance ...
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Post-earthquake assistance in Haiti shifts to reconstruction – UN
UN News Centre
On job creation, Ms. Grynspan said UNDP had helped create 300000 temporary jobs since the quake, organizing people to carry out activities such as debris removal, garbage collection and enhancing disaster risk reduction. Forty per cent of the temporary ...
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UN News Centre
Dominican Republic Earthquake Followed by Puerto Rico Terremoto Today
LALATE
Red Sísmica de Puerto Rico reports this temblor is the latest in a series of quakes to rock the island in recent days. Red Sísmica de Puerto Rico reports news that at 2:48 am local time today a 3.0 magnitude quake was felt across sections of the ...
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Local Haitian injured in quake struggles to provide for family
MiamiHerald.com
Richard Jacque-Pierre, who moved to South Florida after the Haitiearthquake, is struggling to provide financially for his family back home. Richard Jacque-Pierre, 58, survived Haiti's 2010 earthquake and now struggles with his injuries and other ...
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MiamiHerald.com
Earthquake rattles Taranaki
Taranaki Daily News
No damage had been reported as a result of the quake, but people from all sides of the mountain felt it. Ian Smith had his lunch interrupted as the short, sharp rumble passed his Opunake home. "It made my tea splash in my cup," he said. ...
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105 Years After Quake, Himachal Temple Rebuilt
Daijiworld.com
The foundation of the Bharari Devi temple, located in Sarah village near Dharamsala town in Kangra district, was damaged when the Kangra Valley witnessed its most devastatingearthquake of the century in 1905, killing more than 20000 people. The quake ...
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Just the lesson Japan needs: follow the Shenzen example in quake zone
Sydney Morning Herald
Some fresh thinking is in order, and Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami provided a perfect opportunity. There are many cities the government could declare as economic-policy labs: Fukuoka, Kobe, Nagasaki, Sapporo, Yokohama. ...
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Quake Activity Prompts Liberty to Review Drilling Laws
WYTV
In the days that have followed last weekend's 4.0 earthquake, the area is coming under increasing scrutiny from out-of-town media looking into the rumored connection between the tremor, as well as 10 others, and a deep injection well nearby. ...
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DC theater by the numbers
Washington Post
Salary of Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center. Date of the DC Earthquake. Coincidentally, also the date when the Rorschach Theater began its first rehearsal for a play called "After the Quake." Read: ”After the Quake” rehearsals begin ...
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Toll from Oklahoma's November earthquakes becomes clearer
NewsOK.com
Ninety percent of the property owners with earthquake damage don't have insurance policies to cover their loss, said Keli Cain, a spokeswoman for the state emergency management office. A damage assessment after the quakes revealed that 37 structures...
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Dallas Quakes at Midnight, Writer Blames Dog
D Magazine
This morning, I find that I probably owe my dog an apology, because there was anearthquake pretty much where I live-ish. Geologists say the epicenter of the 2.0 quakewas around Northwest Highway and Inwood Road. But you know what? ...
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Earthquakes erode support for drilling, but they're nothing new
Environment & Energy Publishing
A series of smaller earthquakes preceded the New Year's Day quake. "While our research doesn't point to a clear and direct correlation to drilling at this site and seismic activity, we will never gamble when safety is a factor," said Ohio Department of ...
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Haiti: Two years after the quake, some change but the pace is slow
Oxfam America
Two years ago, I was one of the first of Oxfam's emergency team to fly to the island, arriving three days after it was hit by a devastating earthquake, which killed more than 220000 people and left more than a million others homeless. ...
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Oxfam America
'I've never seen anything like it'
Ottawa Citizen
Some had been registered before the quake on Jan. 12, 2010, but up to 60 per cent more were added to the list after. "The earthquake happened around 5 pm, and many parents were not with their children," says Christina Torsein, a child protection ...
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Aftershocks to continue for decades, say scientists
Radio New Zealand
Seismologists told the meeting there's no risk of a damaging tsunami being generated by an earthquake of up to magnitude 6.0 off the coast of Canterbury. Although a magnitude 7.0 quake could generate a tsunami, they said there is now a very low ...
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Earthquake Hits Near Christchurch, New Zealand
Our Amazing Planet
An earthquake has struck the South Island of New Zealand in the area near Christchurch hit hard by a deadly quake last year. The preliminary magnitude was 4.5, according to the US Geological Survey: This article will be updated if the event proves ...
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Quake Rocks Christchurch Earthquake Briefing | Stuff.co.nz
Christchurch has been rocked by a magnitude-5 earthquake, as a briefing was told aftershocks would continue for decades.
Stuff.co.nz - National
Ohio Quakes Probably Triggered by Disposal Well, Say ...
By Kim Martineau
Earthquakes that have shaken an area just outside Youngstown, Ohio, in the last nine months are likely linked to a disposal well for injecting wastewater used in the hydraulic fracturing process, say seismologists at Lamont-Doherty Earth ...
State of the Planet
Quake Rocks Christchurch Earthquake Briefing | Stuff.co.nz
A magnitude-4.7 earthquake hit Christchurch at 8.04pm tonight, hours after a magnitude-5 quake interrupted a special briefing on aftershocks.
Stuff.co.nz - National
Earthquake Rattles Parts Of North Texas « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
By ktvtdeborah
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recorded a 2.0 magnitude earthquake with a latitude of 32.866°N and longitude of 96.826° — centering the quake just west of the intersection of W. Northwest Highway and Inwood Road. The epicenter is ...
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Magnitude 5.1 - KEPULAUAN BATU, INDONESIA
By U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
USGS M 2.5+ Earthquakes
Earthquake! In Dallas! But Where Was It, Exactly? | FrontBurner
By Jason Heid
CBS 11 employs its Random Capitalization formatting to describe the scene: “AnEarthquake rattled parts of the metroplex Friday morning. The quake happened just after Midnight and was centered near the Love Field area.” NBC 5 needs to ...
FrontBurner
M3.5 Quake Rattles Coachella Valley; No Damage Reported « CBS ...
By Ian
INDIO (CBS) — The U.S. Geological Service says a magnitude-3.5 earthquake shook the Coachella Valley just before 9 a.m. Friday morning. The quake was centered about 8 miles east-northeast of Coachella and was about 3 miles below the ...
CBS Los Angeles
Christchurch rattled by 5.0 quake | Otago Daily Times Online News ...
By Kurt Bayer
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, just after experts predicted morequakes for the region. The quake was centred 10 km east of Belfast and 10km north-east of Christchurch at a depth of 5km at 2.20pm this afternoon. ...
Otago Daily Times:
Radio New Zealand : News : Christchurch Earthquake : Quake-hit ...
Christchurch and Canterbury Tourism says despite a bleak year, many local operators have developed new tours and offers to survive the post-quake downturn. ...
www.radionz.co.nz/.../quake-hit-tourism-operators-bouncing-...
Quake Rocks Christchurch Earthquake Briefing | Stuff.co.nz
A magnitude-4.7 earthquake hit Christchurch at 8.04pm tonight, hours after a magnitude-5 quake interrupted a special briefing on aftershocks.
www.stuff.co.nz/.../Magnitude-4-7-quake-strikes-Christchurch
Ohio quakes could incite fracking policy shift
Yet earthquakes have a special ability to grab public attention. That's especially true after Saturday's quake near Youngstown, at magnitude 4.0 strong ...
online.wsj.com/.../AP525996cd5cb44f7bbba827e24fd1ee6f.ht...
Japan earthquake: Force 7 quake shakes Tokyo hours into new year ...
The quake, which measured 4 in central Tokyo, Fukushima and their surrounding areas, struck 217 miles below the sea surface at 2.28pm (5.27am GMT).
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Japan-earthquake-Force-7-quake-sha...
Earthquake: 3.1 quake strikes near Joshua Tree - Blogs - Los ...
A shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Monday morning eight miles from Joshua Tree, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/.../earthquake-joshua-tree.html
JAPAN EARTHQUAKE JANUARY 1, 2012: MAGNITUDE 7.0 QUAKE
Another powerful earthquake hits Japan and it happened exactly on New Year's Day. The quake which has a magnitude 7.0 rocked the eastern part of Japan.
www.pinoyhalo.com/.../japan-earthquake-january-1-2012-ma...
4.0 quake hits Youngstown, Ohio. Yes, Ohio
Earthquakes jangled nerves in Arkansas this year, and another bunch of quakes in Oklahoma — including a 5.6 in November — prompted scientists from all ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../40-magnitude-quake-hits-youngst...
Earthquake: 3.4 quake strikes near Coachella
A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Friday morning seven miles from Coachella, according to the US Geological Survey. ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../earthquake-34-quake-strikes-near-...
4.2 magnitude earthquake reported north of Christchurch, NZ – 5.3 ...
GNS Science received reports the quake was felt in Havelock, Maraetai Bay, Picton, Te Aro, Newton, and Churton Park. The earthquake was centered 30km ...
theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/.../4-2-magnitude-earthq...
Japan earthquake: 6.8 quake rattles Tokyo, but no damage
A 6.8 earthquake rattled Tokyo and other cities on Sunday, but not enough to cause major damage. The quake's epicenter was some 200 miles under the sea, ...
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McDonald, Ohio Earthquake: 4.0 Quake Felt Near Youngstown ...
But the Ohio Department of Natural Resources director said fracking is not causing thequakes. He said four injection wells within a five-mile radius of the by now ...
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