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Apr 27, 2012

FORBES News, Apr 27, 2012

Aflac Ranks 214 on 2012 Forbes Global 2000 List
MarketWatch (press release)
COLUMBUS, Ga., April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Aflac, the number one provider of supplemental insurance in the United States, serving more than 50 million people worldwide, is ranked number 214 on the 2012Forbes Global 2000 list of the ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: Hertz Global
Forbes
By Narrative Science After Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ) experienced a loss of -3 cents a year ago, analysts predict positive news when the company reports this year's first quarter numbers on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. They expect a profit of one cent a ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: MasterCard
Forbes
One of MasterCard's main competitors in the it services industry, Visa (V), will report earnings on May 2, 2012. Other competitors in the information technology sector include: Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Green Dot (GDOT), and Global ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: IntercontinentalExchange
Forbes
IntercontinentalExchange is a regulated global futures exchange and over-the-counter market operator. One of IntercontinentalExchange's main competitors in the diversified financial services industry is Bank of America (BAC). Other competitors in the ...
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Wal-Mart Clan Recovers $2.1 Billion, Adelson Down $780 Million
Forbes
In our third day of tracking the wealth of 50 global billionaires via the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list, casino king Sheldon Adelson took a hit, while the Walton family bounced back. Even a pervasive Mexican bribery scandal couldn't keep Wal-Mart ...
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Wells Fargo Is Buying Another Prime Brokerage Business
Forbes
In September the bank agreed to acquire Cargill Inc.'s hedge-fund administration and middle-office service provider, LaCrosse Global Fund Services. Bank Of America's prime brokerage business is under the Merrill Lynch umbrella, and JPMorgan Chase ...
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Billionaire Stefano Pessina On His 1500 Deals Including Europe's Biggest LBO
Forbes
Pessina, who is worth $2.6 billion, sat down with Forbes last week to talk about his success, the deal that made him famous, his tips for other entrepreneurs and why he's not done yet. A nuclear engineer, he joined his father's ailing pharmaceutical ...
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comScore validated Campaign Essentials(TM) (vCE) Gets Global Adoption from ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Leading publishers to adopt vCE include Microsoft and Forbes. "GRPs must be truly cross-media comparable if digital is ever going to effectively compete with TV for ad dollars. While viewability is indeed a critical component of campaign delivery and ...
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Coming Soon to Your Town: Sequestration Road Tour
TIME (blog)
Randy Forbes is planning a road tour to detail the damage sequestration would do to the nation's defenses Americans will celebrate Memorial Day next month, and honor those who've died while serving to protect the rest of us. But some concerned members ...
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TIME (blog)
Forbes Travel Guide Launches In Shanghai, China
Asia Media Journal
SHANGHAI, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Forbes Travel Guide, the originators of the prestigious Five-Star ratings program in the US, added Shanghai, China as its newest global destination. This announcement is marked by the addition of two properties, ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: Becton Dickinson
Forbes
Becton, Dickinson & Company is a global medical technology company engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents. One of Becton Dickinson's main competitors in the healthcare equipment and ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: Marsh & McLennan
Forbes
Marsh & McLennan is a global professional services firm that provides solutions in the areas of risk, strategy and human capital. One of Marsh's main competitors in the insurance industry, Aon (AON), will report earnings on May 4, 2012.
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Eco Crowd Growing Desperate—and Dangerous
Global Warming (blog)
by Matt Patterson on April 27, 2012 The climate scaremongers are losing the public relations battle on global warming—and it's driving them absolutely batty. Take eco-warrior Steve Zwick. Writing for FORBES Zwick calls on so-called “climate deniers ...
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Global Warming (blog)
Forbes Earnings Preview: Biogen Idec
Forbes
Biogen Idec is a global biotechnology company that meets the needs of therapeutic care providers and recipients. One of Biogen Idec's main competitors in the biotechnology industry is Amgen (AMGN). Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: ...
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Shares In China Electronics Retail Titan Suning Tumble As Profit Disappoints
Forbes
Suning's report is just the last in a slew of mixed news from a Chinese industry that global retailers have been looking to for growth and profit amid slow growth in the US and Europe. In Hong Kong trading today, shares in Suning's main offline rival ...
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Provident New York Bancorp Named One of America's Most Trustworthy Companies
Citybizlist (press release)
... parent company of Provident Bank, has been named one of America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in an annual survey commissioned by Forbesand prepared by GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), a global leader in corporate governance.
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Investors licking lips over auction of Russian state assets
NASDAQ
Forbes reports on Monday that the list of state assets to be privatized will soon be released by the Russian government. The government has announced that it will auction the assets off to bidders in June of this year. The move would be a vote of ...
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A primer on hotel categories and star ratings
CBS News
Forbes is notoriously selective, giving five stars to just 59 hotels around the world and four stars to 176 properties. AAA's rating system uses diamonds rather than stars — http://www.AAA.com/Diamonds — and is also widely known.
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Internap Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
Sacramento Bee
By Internap Network Services Corporation Announces launch of Agile Hosting offering, a global on-demand hosting service and self-service configurator. Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a leading provider of IT infrastructure ...
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Cobra Electronics Reports Increased First Quarter Results
MarketWatch (press release)
CHICAGO, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cobra Electronics Corporation (NASDAQ:COBR) , a leading global designer and marketer of mobile communications and navigation products, today reported net income of $339000, or $0.05 per share, ...
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Internap Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Announces launch of Agile Hosting offering, a global on-demand hosting service and self-service configurator. Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ:INAP) , a leading provider of IT infrastructure services, today announced financial results for ...
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How Much Extra Would You Pay for a Self-Driving Car?
Slate Magazine (blog)
A picture taken on January 8, 2011 in Bailleul, northern France, shows a car using a Global Positioning System on the highway A25. A new law in France came into force on January 5, 2012 for anyone driving in France, which bans the use of equipment that ...
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RP coco sugar exports up
Tempo
The 2010 export figure itself was phenomenal, Forbes said, since it represented a 224.2 percent increase from the 11200 kilos sold overseas the previous year. “The increase in coco sap sugar exports was driven by globalhealth concerns, ...
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Aflac Incorporated to Webcast, Live, at RetailInvestorConferences.com on May 3rd
NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)
In addition, Forbes magazine has named Aflac as one of America's Best-Managed Companies in the Insurance category. In 2011, Fortune magazine recognized Aflac as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America for the thirteenth consecutive year ...
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Outsider Ren pits Huawei against the world
iT News
Sixteen years later, Ren was listed among Forbes' 400 richest Chinese and Huawei was one of the world's largest telecoms gear vendors, but the United States still treated him as an outsider. He was keen to win customers like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint ...
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Article One Partners Names Peter Vanderheyden as Chief Product Officer
Technology Digital (press release)
The company is a partner to 16 Fortune 100 companies, 50 Forbes Global2000 and 7 of the top 10 US patent filers. AOP's client satisfaction rate exceeds 90%. AOP has a distinguished Board, led by Marshall Phelps, the former head of patents and ...
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The Morning Download: Google in Overdrive
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Citigroup Global CTO Antonio Benjamin took the stage at a Silicon Valley confab to share some impressive stats, among them: Citi repels 40000 attacks on its system every day; it operates 10 regional processing centers, each the size of a few football ...
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Gore and the Democrats' Green Graft Machine
American Thinker
According to a Forbes April 21, 1997 account of the scandal: Al Gore helped send the stock flying when he called Molten Metal "a shining example of American ingenuity." Sound familiar? Who can forget President Obama's iconic May 2010 speech touting ...
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Blackbaud And Convio Announce Early Termination Of HSR Waiting Period In ...
TheStreet.com (press release)
Recognized as a top company by Forbes, InformationWeek, and Software Magazine and honored by Best Places to Work, Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina and has employees throughout the US, and in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico, ...
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Coco sap sugar exports up by 92.78% in 2011
Philippine Information Agency
Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Administrator Euclides G. Forbes has announced a 92.78 percent increase in 2011 exports volume of coco sap sugar with 70000 kilograms (km) compared with 36310 km in 2010. In a statement posted on the Department of ...
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Romney's Environmental Experts Know Too Much About The Environment To Destroy It
Ology
by Evan McMurry Forbes has an article up from Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute about Mitt Romney's environmental team, and man is he scared to death that they're...too environmentalist? Yup. A rundown of potential heads of the EPA and Secretary ...
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Ology
Drugmakers give swine flu vaccines a second shot
Zee News
The 2009 global outbreak of swine flu, or H1N1, claimed over 17000 lives including 2725 in India between May 2009 and November 2010, when the government asked local manufacturers to come up with affordable preventatives. Five Indian companies -- Cadila ...
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Zee News
The Stream, April 27: Water Cycle is Intensifying Faster Than Predicted
Circle of Blue WaterNews (blog)
Climate change is causing the global water cycle to accelerate and intensify faster than previously thought, with the possibility that it could intensify 16-24 percent by 2100, according to a new study published in the journal Science, Nature reported.
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Billionaires who shoot for the stars
Business Spectator
Officially launched at a press conference on April 24, the company said the plan to mine asteroids could potentially add trillions of dollars to the global(or should that be universe's) economy, providing of course that the rare minerals can be mined ...
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COLUMN: Walmart slacks on sustainability, evironmental health
Oklahoma Daily
The clothes we wear, the electronics we operate and the supermarkets we frequent all fit into a global picture. With the shop local movement under our heels and “small business Saturday” an unofficial holiday, it's important to understand not only ...
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Innovative Technology Products of 2012 - Scott Steinberg Speaks with NewsWatch
Houston Chronicle
If users want more information about any of these products visit imateweb.com Hailed as a top voice for today's high-tech generation by dozens of publications from USA Today to Forbes and NPR, Scott Steinberg has covered the field for 400+ outlets from ...
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The Emerging Global Market For Intellectual Property - Forbes
The Forbes 2012 Tax Guide ... Focusing on intellectual capital isn't new at IBM. ... But we also participate in the global intellectual property market, reaping $1 ...
www.forbes.com/.../the-emerging-global-market-for-intellectu...
The Top 10 Global Beauty Brands - Forbes
Brand Finance this week released its annual ranking of the 50 biggest global... Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to ...
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More Global Warming Alarmist Games: Doctoring The ... - Forbes
I write about energy and environment issues, frequently focusing on globalwarming. I have presented environmental analysis on CNN, CNN HeadlineNews , ...
www.forbes.com/.../more-global-warming-alarmist-games-doc...
Will Mitt Romney Recycle George W. Bush's Global ... - Forbes
Romney seems bent on recycling Bush 43's global warming muddle, ...Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to your inbox ...
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The World's Biggest Companies - Forbes
In total, the Global 2000 companies now account for $36 trillion in revenues (up .... Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to ...
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Being Global I: Global Leaders for Global Transformation - Forbes
It is based on extensive research done by the Thunderbird School of GlobalManagement and is documented in the new book “Being Global: How to Think, Act ...
www.forbes.com/.../being-global-i-global-leaders-for-global-tr...
uh oh, broken iPhone? Welcome to The Global Brain. - Forbes
Latest News ». Forbes began ranking the World's Billionaires 25 years ago. Today the list is bigger than ever and still the definitive guide to globalwealth.
www.forbes.com/.../uh-oh-broken-iphone-welcome-to-the-glo...
Being Global III: Global Leaders Act as Global Entrepreneurs - Forbes
In the previous post we discussed the importance of a global mindset for ...Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to your ...
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Apple's Secret Plan For Its Cash Stash - Forbes.com
A lot of high-tech manufacturers on The Global 2000 dream about controlling ... that come true, specifically by buying production equipment to outfit new and ...
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EARTHQUAKE News, Apr 27, 2012


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Tibetan quake victims fight China government land grab
Reuters
By Sui-Lee Wee | GYEGU, China (Reuters) - For two years after a cataclysmic earthquake struck a remote and wild part of China's northwestern Qinghai province, Baobao and 29 other homeless ethnic Tibetan residents occupied the area outside several ...
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Tibetan quake victims fight China government land grab
Chicago Tribune
GYEGU, China (Reuters) - For two years after a cataclysmic earthquakestruck a remote and wild part of China's northwestern Qinghai province, Baobao and 29 other homeless ethnic Tibetan residents occupied the area outside several government buildings ...
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Japan sea sediments tell of past 'Tohoku quakes'
Tehran Times
Previous earthquakes that rivaled the March 2011 Tohoku tremor in size may be recorded in sediment samples just recovered from the seafloor off Japan. The sediments hint at three major disturbances on the ocean bed that could be the result of the ...
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Magnitude-4.1 quake offshore Calif. north coast
San Francisco Chronicle
(AP) -- An offshore earthquake has been reported along California's north coast. A US Geological Survey computer-generated report says the magnitude-4.1 quake struck at 1:38 am Friday and was centered 36 miles west of Petrolia, which is about 260 miles ...
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4.7-magnitude quake strikes off Vancouver Island
CBC.ca
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck about 200 kilometres west of Vancouver Island on Friday morning but there were no reports of it being felt by island residents. The quake struck around 1:36 am PT, according to the Natural Resources Canada.
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Tokyo Business School Helps Rebuild Areas Hit by Quake
New York Times
The Graduate School of Management at Globis University in Tokyo will work with the Daimler-Nippon Foundation Innovative Leader Fund to support reconstruction work in areas destroyed by the deadly earthquake in Japan in March 2011, the school said in a ...
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Are San Juan Residents Clueless About Quake Risk?
Patch.com
"There is a general perception in Orange County that we don't have as muchearthquake hazard" – in part because the county has not suffered a major, destructive quake since 1933, when the area was sparsely populated. Grant Ludwig said the fault has ...
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Small earthquake reported north of Helena
KRTV Great Falls News
The US Geological Survey reports that a magnitude 2.1 earthquake rattled an area north of Helena. Initial reports place the small quake about 20 miles north of the Helena Valley, and it was recorded at 8:38 pm (MT time). Thequake was registered about ...
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New Faults, and Earthquake Risks, Found in Washington
Discovery News
The researchers didn't find enough paleoseismic evidence to say how often major quakes occur along these faults. The last time an earthquakeoccurred along the Birch Bay and Sandy Ridge faults was at least 1000 years ago, Blakely said, and moving at a ...
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Japanese investors relocating to Malaysia after quake-tsunami
Sin Chew Jit Poh
KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 (Bernama) -- Japanese investors are increasingly locating their businesses to Malaysia after the aftermath of March 11, 2011earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the floods in Thailand which disrupted their global operations.
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Displaced by a quake
Reuters
Thousands still remain homeless after the 2010 Tibet earthquake. Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints Comments (0) This discussion is now closed. We welcome comments on our articles for a limited period after their publication.
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Small earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island
Vancouver Sun
Residents of Metro Vancouver may not have felt it, but there was anearthquake off the coast of BC early this morning. The 4.4 magnitudequake hit an area about 150 kilometres west of Vancouver Island shortly before 7 am, according to Natural Resources ...
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Northern California Earthquake Today 2012 Felt in Eureka
LALATE
LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A moderate Northern California earthquake2012 was felt in Eureka today. A 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck Friday, April 27, 2012 in the predawn morning hours. USGS indicates to news that the quake was centered out in the Pacific ...
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1618 indirect deaths related to quake disaster recognized
Mainichi Daily News
The Reconstruction Agency announced on April 27 that as of March 31 this year, there had been 1618 indirect deaths related to the Great East JapanEarthquake disasters in Tokyo and nine prefectures. The number is much higher than the 919 such deaths ...
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Another quake hits Aceh
Jakarta Post
According to the Meteorology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency (BMKG), the earthquake did not have the potential to cause a tsunami. The BMKG said that the focus of the quake was located 208 kilometers west of Simeulue regency, at a depth of 10 ...
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National Cathedral in DC restarts gargoyle tours
BusinessWeek
The cathedral had to suspend the tour, as well as other regular events, following a 5.8-magnitude earthquake on Aug. 23. The quake caused stonework to fall from the building's towers and other damage. The cathedral reopened to the public in November.
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Cera recommended demolition
Stuff.co.nz
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera) released hundreds of files on the cathedral yesterday, including engineering reports, letters and photos. The documents give the clearest insight yet into negotiations between Cera and Anglican...
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Indonesia Earthquake Today 2012 Does Not Prompt Tsunami Alert
LALATE
ST LOUIS (LALATE) – A strong Indonesia earthquake today 2012 did not prompt a tsunami alert. Sulawesi, Indonesia was struck by a strong 5.1 magnitude earthquake today Friday, April 27, 2012. But local officials confirm to news that no tsunami concerns ...
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Small earthquake shivers off northwestern tip of Vancouver Island
Winnipeg Free Press
VANCOUVER - A region off the northwestern tip of Vancouver Island has been rattled by a minor earthquake. The US Geological Survey reports a magnitude 4.4 quake occurred this morning at 5:52 am (Pacific Time) It was centred in the Pacific Ocean, ...
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$64M study on quake risk planned for San Onofre
fox5sandiego.com
Operators of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station are about to embark on a costly study on earthquake risk that could determine the future of the plant, it was reported Friday. Southern California Edison, which operates the troubled plant just ...
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NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big US Earthquakes
Space Ref (press release)
WASHINGTON -- The space-based technology that lets GPS-equipped motorists constantly update their precise location will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and magnitude of strongearthquakes across the western United ...
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NASA tests GPS network to monitor earthquakes
msnbc.com
The GPS earthquake detection capability was first demonstrated by NASA-supported research on a major 2004quake around the Indonesian island of Sumatra. More science news from msnbc.com Scott Thompson / Maryhill Museum Stonehenge's eerie sounds ...
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KMPH FOX 26 | Central San Joaquin Valley News SourceBracing For "The Big One ...
KMPH Fox 26
The data helps scientists determine the probability of when and where aquake will hit. "You can't predict earthquakes, by that we mean place, magnitude and time. But, California is a great model for quake probabilities," says Snyder.
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John Key tours St John's post quake HQ
Radio New Zealand
St John Ambulance in Christchurch says a $2.8 million grant has enabled it to replace emergency equipment damaged in last year's earthquakes. The grant, from the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal, has been used to fund St John's mass casualty incident ...
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Two Meltdowns: Fukushima and the US Economy
Huffington Post (blog)
On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced a 9.0 earthquake. The six nuclear plants at Fukushima -- about 136 miles north of Tokyo -- survived the quakebut were swamped by a 45-foot wave that overwhelmed the 19-foot seawalls. Fukushima units 5 and 6 were in ...
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A new building on the cutting edge
The Press
NEW PLANS: The new St Elmo Courts will be 180 per cent of the earthquake building code. Eighteen months after theearthquakes began wrecking the building he called the love of his life, Richard Owen is about to start rebuilding.
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Disaster management upgrade
The Nation
In the wake of last year's earthquake and tsunami, the Tokyo metropolitan government has updated its estimates of the damage a major quake would cause for the first time in six years. If a quake in Tokyo Bay strikes the metropolitan area, ...
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EQC guarantee to cost 'billions'
Stuff.co.nz
The Government says its guarantee of the Earthquake Commission could run to "a few billion" for the Canterbury earthquake claims, much higher than the $800 million estimated in late August last year. Finance Minister Bill English told a Christchurch ...
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Big quake, little destruction | Science News for Kids
By Erin Wayman
Two large earthquakes, with magnitudes of 8.6 and 8.2, struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on April 11. Unlike the magnitude 9.1 quake that struck the region in December 2004, these tremors did not trigger a deadly ...
Science News for Kids
Northern California Earthquake Today 2012 Felt in Eureka
By lalate
LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A moderate Northern California earthquake2012 was felt in Eureka today. A 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck Friday, April 27, 2012 in the predawn morning hours. USGS indicates to news that the quake was ...
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Magnitude 5.1 - HOKKAIDO, JAPAN REGION
By U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
USGS M 2.5+ Earthquakes
Tibetan quake victims fight China government land grab - Central ...
By jamphel
(Reuters) – For two years after a cataclysmic earthquake struck a remote and wild part of China's northwestern Qinghai province, Baobao and 29 other homeless ethnic Tibetan residents occupied the area outside several government ...
Central Tibetan Administration
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
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...
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...
The Watchers - Quake expert Gheorghe Marmureanu: Something is ...
The Earth is shaking! Scientists find no explanation to the 39 earthquakesthat rocked the planet in just two days. “Something is wrong! There are too ma.
thewatchers.adorraeli.com/.../quake-expert-gheorghe-marmure...
Chile Earthquake: Magnitude 6.7 Quake Shakes Central Chile
Valparaiso, Chile -- A strong, magnitude-6.7earthquake rocked central Chile late Monday ...
www.inquisitr.com/221273/chile-earthquake-2012-valparaiso/
Strong earthquake strikes Chile; no serious damage reported - CNN
A strong earthquake struck coastal Chile near the port city of Valparaiso late... The 6.7-magnitude quake knocked out some power and phone lines in the region ...
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
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 earthquakesimulations in ...
www.nytimes.com/.../in-california-quake-research-boring-is-th...
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...
Phuket NEWS: Phuket Earthquake: USGS reports Sumatra quake at ...
PHUKET: The USGS has reported that the earthquake struck at a depth of 14.7 kilometers, not two kilometers as originally reported. Click here to see the USGS ...
www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/.../article12816.html
6.7-magnitude quake shakes central Chile | Fox News
6.7-magnitude quake shakes central Chile. Published April 17, 2012. Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile – A strong magnitude-6.7 earthquakeshook central ...
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Christchurch people are being given an opportunity to tell their earthquakestories through QuakeBox.
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