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The more critical situation appeared to be with Reactor Nos. 1, 2 and 3, which had been online at the time of the quake.

Staff at a nearby hotel said the quake had been strong enough to shake television sets off tables and smash them.

None of the children in his literature class died in the quake.

Naples does not sit squarely on a fault line but is close enough to be at risk for major damage if a strong quake hits nearby.

Following a committee meeting just a week before the quake, some members of the group assured the public that they were in no danger.

He said people rushed out of their homes and buildings as the quake rocked the reef-fringed tropical island around lunchtime.

The Sichuan quake has jolted China just as it was meant to be celebrating its Olympic triumph.

If that were to be the case for the Padang earthquake, the event could reduce the likelihood of a great quake at that location anytime soon.

Haiti needs at least $10m to assist victims and the quake will likely claim up to 100000 lives, said the International Red Cross.

Also in the Philippines, Bayan Telecommunications Inc. said the quake disrupted some of its digital-subscriber-line services.

He said he hoped the earthquake would not come to be known as the "Sendai quake. "

The aging PC gathering dust in the guest room? Ready to catch the next quake.

"These plants are designed to withstand the most severe quake" that they could be expected to see in their lifetimes, he said.

"The entire city could drown in a tsunami triggered by such a quake, " he said.

Her students, she said, had brought in information about that quake that was "all over the place. "

He said he and a few others were traveling in a truck through the city when the quake hit.

Something just as devastating as the quake was the tsunami -- this giant ocean wave -- that the quake caused.

Japan's Meteorological Agency said the quake had prompted a tsunami warning for parts of the Pacific coast.

That quake was one of the most deadly in recorded history, prompting Beijing to introduce tougher building codes in vulnerable areas.

"Already people [overseas] are saying they would be keen to adopt children orphaned by the quake, " said Jon Bugge, of Save the Children.

The boy began to quake with dread . . . this was no ordinary lecture for being bad!

She said the US administration was awaiting further information as China grapples with the aftermath of the massive quake.

Teal had been knocked to her knees by the force of the quake, but she had managed to keep hold of Baldan's hand and forearm.

The biggest loss caused by the quake was that of life and property, but it was not included in the calculation of GDP growth, said Wang.

I knew it had been a major quake, though not centered where I lived.

One witness, Macarena Railef, said the force of the quake was overwhelming even far from its epicentre.

Sichuan lies near the boundary of two tectonic plates, the Indian and Eurasian landmasses, making it a particularly quake-prone area.

They denied any intentional wrongdoing, saying they were only trying to help orphans left destitute by the quake.

Fabienne Jean, right, was a professional dancer before a wall fell on her during the quake, snapping her leg in two.

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein .

"Because the total number of people killed in the quake is still being checked, there is no final figure on the student toll, " he said.

(also known as a quake, tremor, or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.

Do you think it sensible of him to donate all his savings to the quake area ?

"It is crazy, " she said. "The quake is not finished, but the flood is coming. "

Tepco, the plant's owner and operator, said the latest quake did not cause any significant new damage.

For the next few weeks, everyone's life was centered around the quake due to the constant media coverage and electricity rationing.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was en route to Toronto when the quake happened and a picture in his office fell off the wall.

Do you think it se ible of him to donate all his savings to the quake area ?

TEPCO had been operating three out of six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at the time of the quake, all of which shut down.

Astute people have noted that the magnitude of a quake does not seem to have relevance to the destruction that ensures.

In the case of the Haiti quake, the Caribbean and North American plates slide past one another in an east-west direction.

This also suggests that the technology is far from perfect --it may well require quite some time to build up to a really large quake.

Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis.

"After the quake, my desire to go back and live with my parents grew stronger, " she said.

A wide range of industries, from car and steel plants to beer brewers and paper factories, shut down in the wake of the quake and tsunami.

On why he took his 6-year-old son to see the destruction in Sendai shortly after the quake: I wanted him to see this.

The last time China had a quake of that magnitude it took them three months to admit that it had happened.

But overall, she said, the quake seemed minor. "It really didn't shake or jar, " she said.

"Now incredible changes have taken place in the quake-hit areas, I feel very relieved, " he said.

She and her team trolled scientific online bulletin boards, trying to talk fellow scientists and students into becoming quake catchers.

For example, dogs may be able to hear the microfacturing of rocks a few milliseconds before a quake shock reaches the surface.

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A warning system was installed in Indonesia after the 2004 disaster but it did not seem to work after Monday's quake.

Japan's chief government spokesman said Monday that Japan is ready to send a medical team to China's quake-hit southwestern areas.

Both indicate that the liquefaction makes the frequency of the surface horizontal quake reduced obviously.

If it is a strong quake and it happens near or in the ocean, computers quickly measure the length, depth and location of a quake.

The long-term damage that the water causes could be much more severe than what was caused by the quake itself, experts told Reuters.

The quake was one of the world's five strongest in more than a century of record-keeping , with a magnitude of 8. 9 .

At least nine schools fell across the quake zone, trapping thousands of children in gruesome scenes that were repeated time and again.

The remote and mountainous southeastern region of Turkey where the quake struck is one of the poorest parts of the country.

You know, only if you were there did you realize that after the quake, there were follow-on quakes for days on end.

Chile was also luckier that the quake's epicentre was much deeper down in the earth than in Haiti, mitigating its destructive power.

He admitted the devastating earthquake had caused huge losses in quake-hit regions and said reconstruction would be an arduous task.

He was at home just a few minutes away when the quake struck .

Mr. Oigawa says the call came six days after the quake struck and that his son will likely work at the plant for two or three days.

Thousands of Chinese have streamed into the quake region or donated record sums of money in a striking and unscripted public response.

"reapers" ? as in more than one? They only gather like this at times of great catastrophe -- Chicago fire, san francisco quake. Pompeii.

The real test of the tunnels will be their ability to stand up to a quake and support the local populace during the aftermath.

Following the quake, tens of thousands of volunteers from everywhere headed over to Sichuan to help with the relief work there.

Just want to say that, as a mother, looking at the photographs of quake victims on this website made me cry today.

evidence available to the seven at the time of the meeting showed that the threat of a big quake in the near future was real.

This tendency toward corruption cannot be deterred without a genuine reform of the post-quake planning process toward democratization.

"It is just a scene of utter devastation, " Prime Minister John Key said after rushing to the city within hours of the quake.

Hope for more such miracles was all but extinguished as the country passed its ninth day since the quake struck.

The parents were hoping to hear the results of an investigation into the failure of area school buildings in the quake.

Six days after the quake struck and with the death toll now standing at 294, masses were held in makeshift chapels set up in tent cities.

It was a relatively shallow quake, which can be very destructive.

"The ferris wheel will withstand an earthquake of up to magnitude 8, owing to its quake-resistant design, " the China Daily said.

Both seemed to be common reactions to today's East Coast quake, which had a magnitude of 5. 9.

The energy from a quake can't easily penetrate the earth's crust, which is the section of rock up to 18 miles below the surface.

I noticed that during the time of the Haiti quake, numerous small quakes were occurring all along the S American Plate edges.

Technically, Dr. Applegate said, the magnitude 8. 9 quake was an aftershock.

Local reports said the Indonesian quake brought down buildings and bridges, damaged houses and started fires.

Shortly after shaking hands with some of the quake survivors, Mr. Bush, you can see here, appeared to wipe his palm on Mr. Clinton's sleeve.

He said post-quake reconstruction, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis and economic growth are his top priorities.

The deadliest quake of all time might be one of the least talked about, considering it occurred nearly 450 years ago.

Japan is relatively ill-prepared to absorb the quake's impact and shoulder the public spending that will be required to rebuild.

In the days following the quake there was an aggressive campaign to move Chinatown off its valuable location.

If the quake occurs under water, as this one did, the up-and-down movement displaces an enormous amount of water, setting off the tsunami.

When the quake hit, Rose would have been just waking up from her nap. The older children were playing outside.

The quake leveled entire towns, flattening the simple adobe, brick structures and leaving nothing but rubble.

Previously, the utility had said there was a risk of a meltdown in the core after the quake cut off power to pumps providing cooling water.

Moments like the Japanese quake, Dr. Redlener said, are often referred to as "wake-up calls" that could lead to change.

The aid was extended to help Myanmar's disaster relief efforts and post-quake reconstruction, the MOC said in a statement on its website.

Both Changsha and Beijing offices were evacuated following the quake - this was a real case emergency situation.

Japan is not out of the woods yet, Woodward notes: Buildings and structures weakened by the first quake may not withstand aftershocks.

The Xinhua news agency reported that the early morning quake had caused some schools and part of a government office building to cave in.

This woman's 16-year-old niece was one of hundreds of children killed when their school collapsed in the quake.

The China Daily newspaper says tour groups will be able to go boating on a quake lake and visit a museum featuring an earthquake simulation.

Staffers at a supermarket in Tokyo hold up the shelves during a quake that lasted longer than a minute.

Although Yushu is a sparsely-populated region, experts said the quake is very likely to cause "heavy" casualties.

Tepco said the condenser, which dated from the plant's construction, worked after the quake but eventually stopped.

And then all this earth quake and all this stuff happened, and I thought: Is that Karma? When you are not nice bad things happen to you.

During Quake Live's first year, we knew that there would be a subscription service arriving for the game.

Some reports said officials had begun telling monks to leave the quake area and leave rescue work to the government.

"In the days after the quake, money didn't matter. All that mattered was the relief effort. "

Technically, Mr. Applegate said, the 8. 9 quake was an aftershock.

This was particularly the case where a quake happened in a remote location, or out in the ocean.

Several people were reportedly hurt earlier today when a strong earth-quake struck of the north-east coast of Japan.

Scientists said if the quake had been centered deeper down, the damage would not have been as severe.

His wife's family is from Sendai, where the damage from the quake and tsunami are most pronounced.

The SDF deployment also appears to have been far smoother than when a huge quake levelled parts of western Kobe city in 1995.

However the quake was not merely nature itself the result of the geological movement, also and human itself activities closely bound up.

The connected four-storey blocks were severely damaged in the quake, with one of the structures leaning at a dangerous angle.

The US geological survey said the quake had a magnitude of 8. 9, with an epicentre about 130 kilometres off Japan's east coast.

In the event of a huge quake, the network could potentially give areas miles away from the epicenter a few seconds of warning.

Joassaint said that just before the quake she had fed Elisabeth on the second floor of her home and then went downstairs for a moment.

In the end, the quake did not create a dangerous tsunami, there was little damage, and few casualties.

Experts hope by the time the next big quake does hit the region, we'll be ready for it.

In the same interview, Stone revealed that she cried when she got a letter from the Tibetan Foundation asking her to help the quake victims.

An expensive tsunami warning system either came to late or did not reach communities at risk after Monday's quake in Indonesia.

Relative to national output, the Japanese disaster may end up being two or even three times costlier than the San Francisco quake.

When she began to touch the hair around the edge of my face, I felt myself quake.

The pre-modern structures were utterly unable to withstand a quake of such force, and massive landslides contributed to the casualties.

The Army had itself been devastated by the quake, and was slow to take care of civilians after tending to its own.

China will provide $1m in cash as emergency humanitarian aid to quake-ravaged Chile, said the Ministry of Commerce Monday.

Conversely, a quake can slow the rotation and lengthen the day if it redistributes mass away from that axis, Gross said Tuesday.

This was raised in a concert he organized to help victims of the Japan quake and tsunami.

Only a week after the quake, Tokyo was facing rolling blackouts.

After the quake, she searched every hospital in Mianyang, but found none of her relatives.

Scientists say a number of factors appear to have come together to make this quake particularly damaging.

'Unfortunately, the quake happened where they hadn't inferred there was a stuck point -- it was further away from shore, ' said Dr. Simons.

Gross said the Chile predictions will likely change as data on the quake are further refined.

It has been reported that pending quakes can be sensed by radio, as static on the radio increases just prior to a quake, by hours or days.

There was a guy who had a packet of cookies and wanted to share them, because we were reporting the quake story.

The quake forced that project to shut down, and its sponsor had to make millions of dollars in payments for damaged buildings.

Since the Darwin quake, that segment of fault has been "quiet, silent" in terms of large earthquakes, says Vigny.

The International Red Cross has suggested the waves generated by the quake could be higher than some of the Pacific islands in their path.

The 7. 9-magnitude quake reduced much of Tokyo to rubble, and as refugees tried to leave, firestorms swept through the city.

In the run-up to the first anniversary of the quake, China's state-run media has been giving examples of ordinary people's improved lives.

By looking at the first few seconds of a quake'; s P wave, they found they could predict how big the oncoming S wave would be.

The probe was triggered by the rapid departure of three other Israelis who had survived the quake, he said.

The 8. 9 magnitude quake triggered a huge tsunami which has swept across the sea threatening countries all around the Pacific Ocean.

USA Today referenced some of these trends in their recent "More go online or text to donate for Haiti's quake victims" article.

Her employers are kind and generous, but have never asked whether she had been affected by the quake.

The quake and tsunami killed at least six thousand people. More than nine thousand others are missing.

Afternoon, will meet reporters at the Japan Meteorological Agency, said the quake was "3. 11" East Japan earthquake aftershocks.

It struck shortly after 12 noon local time and witnesses said the quake lasted at least 15 seconds .

After the quake, a man surveyed the damage in Iioka, Chiba Prefecture on March 13th and said: "It's like the wave passed through town. "

The quake hit Chile in the middle of a presidential transition and right smack at the start of our bicentennial celebration.

JAPAN'S quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis wiped out a quarter of the power-generation capacity in Tokyo and the Kanto region.

As you know, this is the day when the quake happened third-five years ago.

Chinese earthquake experts have also referenced quake data provided by other seismological observatories around the globe, it said.

Thursdays's powerful quake was an unwelcome reminder of the disasters nearly one month ago.

U. S. Geological Survey said the quake epicenter was located 86 km southeast of the city Fukushima, focal depth about 10 km.

The quake killed at least one panda at Wolong and sent boulders the size of cars crashing onto it.

In the aftermath of the quake, a handful of bricklayers and builders have visited Xinjian Primary School out of professional curiosity.

This exhibition is named after one of his installations "Brain-quake" : a white brain.

Thirteen military and armed police medical teams are working in the quake zone, he said.

Sure, as a manager, you may feel that you are at the epicenter of the change quake, but don't forget that your employees are also affected.

Sony this week resumed production at the last of its 10 plants that were damaged by the quake, though it warned of continuing disruptions.

GPS data can determine a large quake's true magnitude within 15 minutes, the team reports, much faster than is possible with other methods.

Jones said a quake of this magnitude will instantly turn a brick building into a rubble.

The unusually high magnitude of Tuesday's quake for this region is part of the reason it has likely caused enormous damage to Haiti.

They found a direct and somewhat reassuring parallel: the huge quake that struck Kobe in 1995.

The bottom two floors of the five-story school collapsed in the quake, leaving a squat, leaning wreck.

The Ministry of Health has urged the public to donate blood to help victims of the quake that rocked Sichuan.

To be fair, of course, it's a safe bet that no one -- government or otherwise -- is getting solid information from the quake zone right now.

During such clashes there will be a point where the pressure is greatest, and that will be the spot where a quake will occur.

Occasionally, the Sun's surface erupts in a solar quake, a paroxysm of gigantic storms and flares.

Before the quake the two plants had capacity for producing one third of the company's overall domestic tobacco output.

'I can't take it any more, ' a woman in Chengdu sobbed to a reporter four weeks after the quake.

The tragedy came less than six months after an earlier quake hit Christchurch, causing heavy damage, but amazingly killing no one.

Presgrave said the quake's damage potential was great because of its strength, nearness to population centers and shallow epicenter.

She screamed and shouted, too, with a terrific volume of sound, which, doubtless, caused the hearts of the fugitives to quake within them.

Let's take another extreme case. Even though Zhang made a date with her boyfriend after the quake, is there something wrong?

One of Sichuan's worrisome "quake lakes" , formed when landslides block a river, is also near the aftershock's epicentre in Hongguang.

Here, the arch of a ruined mansion frames the burned remains of city hall. Today, that arch is a memorial of the quake in Golden Gate Park.

Within a day there was a 7. 1 quake recorded in the Solomon Islands nearby, just along the Indo-Australian Plate border.

Rebuilding the shattered homes and infrastructure left by the quake would be a test for any government.

Survivors of the chaos walked down the narrow mountain roads to Yinhua in search of transportation out of the quake-stricken area.

When I first wrote my review of Quake Live, one of my concerns for the future of the game was the pro scene.

At least one TV station for the first time since Friday interrupted its nonstop quake coverage with commercial advertising.

Or a quake on the star's surface might have caused the massive eruption of energy.

The city serves as the setting for a number of scenes, and some of the extras are locals with personal experience of the 1976 quake.

The magnitude-6. 2 quake caused no damage or disruptions to any of the power plants in northeastern Japan, and didn't result in a tsunami.

In the immediate aftermath of the quake, a tsunami watchwas put out for Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas, but this was later lifted.

Officials say the quake is remarkable in that it was extremely shallow, just nine kilometers below the sea surface.

Share indices have generally fallen since the quake, and insurers rely on equity-market investments to bolster capital and performance.

On May 12, 2009, China marked the first anniversary of the quake with a moment of silence as people across the nation remembered the dead.

He had stationed people at the building since the quake, listening for signs of life.

The time, then, has come for the one-child policy to be phased out, and the Sichuan quake, and its grieving families, could be the catalyst.

The Ministry of Health said there have been no major outbreaks of epidemics or other public health hazards in the quake zone.

Thousands of students were believed to have been killed when their shoddily built schools collapsed in the quake.

The first group arrived January 17, five days after the quake, and stayed for a week.

Her only involvement was the unavoidable initial movements of land and water after Illuminati scientists triggered the quake.

The plan links economically developed coastal regions with quake regions to help finance rebuilding projects.

I've never felt a quake that strong, you know.

"Luo's madder merely is to quake to shake brain, then say with laugh, " husband, seldom all over once, let's open building.

So far, infrastructure in the quake areas is gradually resuming function , with a steady supply of goods, according to Guo.

Most of his friends spent their free hours defacing each other's Web sites and playing Quake over the Internet; Ian had higher aspirations.

This quake has the potential to load up the plate boundary, increasing the likelihood of a quake at Wellington.

The intangible cultural heritage protection achievements exhibition of worst quake-hit areas in Wenchuan Earthquake will also be held .

The cost of the quake will almost certainly be larger and require a more sustained and coordinated effort.

The Red Cross says that one out of every three of those residents was affected by this quake.

The quake has the potential to cause major damage because of its strength and proximity to major population centers, he said.

The quake not only shifted the axis, but it also shifted the length of a day on Earth.

Telephone networks, both mobile and land-line, are still out of commission in large swaths of the quake-affected region.

Kureha's Iwaki factory has been closed since the quake hit, and the company is unsure as to when it will start up again.

Xiamen just shook, from Taiwan quake. I'm in the town, and the impact lasted for more than a minute, everyone ran out. It's terrible.

During the quake all Eld's deer and tufted deer immediately ran out of the barns and appeared agitated.

In Tokyo and its suburbs, the quake knocked out much of the usually clockwork-reliable public-transportation system.

While we were having an English lesson yesterday , there was a slight earth quake .

Officials hope to avoid leaving many hundreds of thousands of quake survivors cold and restless in temporary dwellings for another winter.

It was almost as powerful as the 1976 quake in Tangshan, China, which killed at least 240, 000 people.

Kinda, but what if there was a major under sea quake where the Philippine and Eurasian plate meet.

Meanwhile, as the commemorations near, the United States Geological survey released 3D animation of the 1906 quake.

Before the quake, the two nations' ties had been strained by a dispute over US military bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.

"If [the quake] were in Los Angeles you'd probably have massive destruction too, " Baldwin said in a telephone interview.

Meanwhile, as the commemorations near, the U. S. Geological Survey released 3D animation of the 1906 quake.

Despite no major disease outbreaks so far in quake-hit regions, health and epidemic prevention efforts continue apace.

No abnormalities were reported at those plants after Thursday's quake, which the meteorological agency said was an aftershock from March 11.

The quake also left another 546 students disabled, according to the data, which did not include any deaths in surrounding provinces.

And figures from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) show pork prices have also remained stable since the quake.

The museum is being regarded as a unique tourist destination featuring quake relics, with construction to be completed in four years.

Scientists still cannot predict exactly where in the state such a quake will occur or when.

The quake struck at a depth of about 30 kilometers. A tsunami warning has not been issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Cholera is spreading quickly in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, as the death toll rises across the quake-hit country.

But Mr. Bamba said workers simply streamed out of the building after the quake struck.

Closer to the quake, scores of residents were feared trapped in an apartment building that toppled onto its side in the city of Concepcion.

The quake is estimated to have had a magnitude of 8. 0, causing severe damage to the whole China.

Flags are flying at half mast across the country and public entertainment curtailed as a mark of respect, one week after the quake hit.

The shallower a quake is, the more intense it is felt on the surface, and the potential for damage is greater.

There, the quake seemed restricted to California, just at the border of Arizona and Nevada, and Utah was certainly not affected at all.

Still, for such a massive quake, a comparatively small number of people were killed.

He plans to travel to Haiti next week to evaluate the fault zone and try to determine what happened during the quake.

Twitter announced the existence of the quake several minutes before the US Geological Survey had anything up online for anybody to read.

Workers are close to restoring power to cooling systems at a quake-hit Japanese nuclear power plant, officials say.

Spencer was joined by a curious colleague, and they both watched as the egg began to tremor and quake.

I reckon only 10 per cent have started rebuilding, a year after the quake, ' one NGO worker in Chengdu tells me.

Cochran and her colleagues are trying to push the Quake Catchers' membership toward 10, 000.

Commuters gather at a public phone to make calls; mobile services were lost as a result of the quake.

Television channels immediately cancelled their programming to transmit information on the quake and a coastal tsunami advisory.

He classified the bigger quake as moderate and said it could cause structural damage to older buildings and masonry.

The lion pride was outside. They all stood still and faced the building, which rattled during the quake. All settled down within minutes.

School buildings should use structures that meet engineering and construction standards as well as local quake-resistance requirements.

The quake had not damaged everything.

The government has since ordered nuclear plant operators to take additional safety measures in case of a major quake and tsunami.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency said the quake had a magnitude of 8. 8.

Mr. Applegate said the 8. 9 quake released about 30 times as much energy as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.