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In Washington, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said there did not appear to be "any enormous impact" from the tsunami in Hawaii.

2005 was a year of many crises and emergencies, starting with the relief and reconstruction efforts following the Asian Tsunami.

The bell tolling was the idea of Ishinomaki resident Benjamin Loh, a Singapore native who lost his mother-in-law and house to the tsunami.

The moment of reflection was organised following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami a week ago which has claimed thousands of lives.

He said if the tsunami had been as violent in Miura as it was in other parts of Japan, he wouldn't have made it to his family in time.

The Italian designer said he had been "profoundly moved by the tragic events" of March's earthquake and tsunami.

Tepco had to put the operation on hold for a time when another tsunami was predicted, but work recommence after the all-clear.

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

Contrast China's stance on the tsunami with that of India, itself seriously affected, and Beijing's behavior looks even less impressive.

When I was a child growing up in California, my Japanese mother would ask me, "How do you know a tsunami is coming? "

Investors might have been expected to sell yen as Japan struggles to deal with the impact of an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear crisis.

So far, at least, support for the troops appears to be running high in tsunami-affected areas.

Japan might be a rich country, but a week after the tsunami struck it is struggling to feed and house the victims adequately.

People around the Indian Ocean have been marking six months since the earthquake and deadly tsunami that devastated a string of countries.

So even decade ago it was easy to say that we expect the tsunami to arrive in this place at this time.

The study of trees stumps in this drowned landscape indicated there had been a huge earthquake and a tsunami between 1680 and 1720.

She said the tsunami was an 'act of heaven' and the people who work in nuclear power weren't at fault.

Experts said the round-the-clock coverage by cable news stations of the tsunami and Katrina influenced charitable giving.

The number of safes continued to increase as the clearing of tsunami debris led to more discoveries.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami.

"Commercial real estate is a tsunami coming that's going to wipe out a lot of the small banks, " he said.

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

To be near water is usually to be near the sea. And in this case, that meant right in the path of a tsunami.

Japan's growth will slow but only temporarily as a result of the earthquake and tsunami, said the World Bank in a report.

You could think of these things being between what you care about and where the tsunami is likely to come from.

Across large parts of Japan's disaster zone, nearly a week after a gigantic earthquake and tsunami, aid isn't getting through.

She recalled looking toward the ocean and seeing what appeared to be the 'white smoke' of the rapidly approaching tsunami.

the economic effects of the tsunami would have been much worse if it had struck Japan's industrial heartland.

Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi said he can only open his mouth to make a gap the size of a fingertip after being diagnosed with jaw arthritis.

The Zetas described roiling seas and occasional tsunami during the sinking of the Sunda Plate, and this seems to be what is happening.

It was one of the few development programs operating in isolated Aceh prior to the tsunami.

Vernon said that as he watched the tsunami come ashore, he was unable to divorce the scientist in him from the humanist.

Hiromitsu Shinkawa was pushed out to sea while he clung to the roof of his floating home after a tsunami swept away his wife.

"I immediately thought of a tsunami and looked out to sea and that's when we saw the wall of white water coming at us, " he said.

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

Yet what has happened since the financial tsunami does matter, even if it is too early to say how it will affect long-term trends.

Common scientific instruments, called microwave radars and radiometers, are able to detect this contrast, known as a tsunami shadow.

Nations affected by the Pacific "Rim of Fire" have all sounded alerts, trying to estimate the anticipated time of arrival of any tsunami.

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.

It is too soon to know just how much devastation the Japanese earthquake and tsunami have caused, in human or economic terms.

Cell phone networks were down in much of the region, and vast lakes formed by the tsunami rendered roads impassable.

What has happened on the small strip of land is indeed, as Haitham Sabbah put it, a tsunami.

All left the site without realizing just how much worse the tsunami would make everything.

But I am lucky because we did get a little bit of the tsunami but nothing like what they got up north.

In an editorial it pointed out that this is the first time nuclear power plants have been hit by an earthquake or tsunami.

That means unless something very big happens, like an earthquake or a tsunami, you will be bound to the contract and can't get out of it.

He said the poor condition of the earthquake and tsunami disaster, the rescue team can come and help, he is very grateful.

Consider a simple example: how many tsunami drownings take place in a year on average?

He said the bank would perform better this year although the impact of the "financial tsunami" would extend "well into 2009" .

Thousands of sports teams around the world use tsunami in their names, like the Tsunami Aquatics Swim team.

At the time of the great Sumatra earthquake in 2004 there was no capability in the Indian Ocean region for a tsunami hazard.

But besides the power of the initial wave crashing into the shore, the tsunami can be just as deadly as it flows back out to sea.

The technology NASA developed for this system has already been used for quick water purification after the 2004 Asian tsunami, Edeen said.

They are also trying to calculate how much Japan's tsunami and nuclear problems will hurt U. S. growth.

This tsunami will bring with it a corresponding surge in the U. S. trade deficit and, with it, a rise in U. S. unemployment .

Consultation and inclusion have been guiding principles of the Bank's approach to reconstruction following December's tsunami.

But the tsunami may have made obvious what markets had long assumed. Japan will get out of this mess by monetising the deficit.

In fact the quality of resorts, beaches and diving is at least as good as it was before the tsunami.

In just a few minutes, the tsunami wiped all his assets and a stock of materials worth $1000.

After a pause, she explains how the tsunami followed soon after his mother's death, dealing an even more severe emotional blow.

In half of the town of Ishinomaki, it still looks as if the tsunami came through yesterday, not two months ago.

Japanese media said the tsunami carried away a ship carrying one hundred people . Television images showed a whole community on fire .

As Asia flexes its growing economic muscle, smart companies must be prepared to handle the ensuing tsunami of cross-language data.

It then ran out of petrol at a time when the tsunami had led to a nationwide shortage of fuel.

Such a registry was used in the Indonesian province of Aceh after the 2004 tsunami to help reunite separated families.

He survived the tsunami along with his wife, who has since left the shelter to live with family members. Mr.

Yes, they said, uranium fuel rods in the tsunami-hit facility's reactors might have been damaged after cooling systems failed.

Last week, when I asked how he's doing these days, he said he's 'just waiting out the tsunami.

Just as a tsunami in Asia is an African problem is an American problem, so is anything to do with food in Africa.

It is unlikely that the kind of devastating earthquake and tsunami which hit Japan would strike any of the Indian nuclear plants.

Depending on the scale, velocity and nature of the collapse, this could generate a significant and potentially damaging tsunami.

Captain Abe is about to put out to sea from the port. His boat, the Hanasakimaru, was badly damaged by the tsunami.

Many said the only experience comparable to watching the tsunami was watching the destruction in lower Manhattan on Sept.

Japan welcomes foreign aid in the form of materials and cash to make up for the great loss caused by this terrible tsunami .

"I think Aceh has not only recovered, but it stands better than before the tsunami in their development, " he said.

In contrast, many people in Thailand in 2004 did not recognize the warning signs of the tsunami and did not know to seek refuge inland.

Payack said the top phrase of the decade was " climate change" followed by " financial tsunami" and "Ground Zero. "

One of the world's most valuable violins is to be sold at auction for the benefit of the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

But that's not always possible, especially with an economic tsunami rolling over your home, job and health insurance.

An old lady's russet wig lies in the road, lost perhaps as she took flight after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

This happened before the tsunami warning was officially lifted, so the company posted watchmen for waves as well, the spokesman said.

And so in some ways the tsunami can be seen as a sort of seminal moment, a moment in which the blogosphere came to a certain degree of age.

Indian meteorological authorities said there was no tsunami threat to the Indian mainland.

We headed towards where the tsunami hit land, close to the little village of Higashiro. We had to pick our way through a sea of mud.

As seawalls are inexpensive and easy to build, they are a sustainable tsunami defense measure applicablefor most coastal communities.

They are expected to pick up in the second half of the year as the temporary shock fades from Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

The defences around the plant's nuclear reactors were wrecked by an earthquake and tsunami in March.

Behind them is the blackened oven of the family's bakery. It was the only item to withstand the force of the tsunami.

For the families ready to rebuild, there is little land left now that large tsunami-smashed areas are effectively off-limits.

Finally the tsunami pushing the United States already retired aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy crashed into the White House!

One view holds that the bank was capsized by the financial tsunami brought on by the subprime mortgage crisis.

A strong yen could hurt Japan's export-led economy as it struggles with slow growth and the aftermath of the March earthquake and tsunami.

'They were saying we had to flee, because a tsunami was coming, ' he said. 'I didn't think the water could possibly come in that far. '

At the Zainul Abidin General Hospital, at least half of the staff have been directly affected by the tsunami.

Her in- laws refused to flee as tsunami warnings sounded , she said. She says the family fled upstairs to avoid the rushing waters .

That energy going into the tsunami, according to Professor Yeh's estimate, was a bit less than that of an exploding atomic bomb.

What determines tsunami direction, and how intense it is going to be in a certain place?

On the Web site, Sheeran said the increase in food prices is "a silent tsunami that respects no borders. "

Not storms, not the result of a tsunami after an earthquake, so what caused the rogue waves?

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.

Dr. Ishiki was also grappling with an overwhelming personal loss. His wife, Tatsuko, perished in the tsunami.

Outside of Fukushima, the full scale of the damage from the earthquake and tsunami continued to unfold.

At this awful, pinched moment of history we look into the future and see a tsunami of want bearing down on us, darkening the sky.

The town's decision to bury tsunami victims in a mass grave was 'an emergency administrative decision, ' he says.

In the aftermath of the tsunami in Indonesia in 2004, I spent days trying to locate in Banda Aceh the exact location.

The tsunami badly damaged one of the main palm oil terminals in western Indonesia, near the city of Meulaboh.

Geophysicist Emile Okal agreed that the the tsunami spawned by the Chile earthquake wasn't really all that small.

But the tsunami wiped out power to the plant, which took down the main coolant system, and a wave destroyed the diesel-based backup system.

He added that the main problem was the larger-then-expected tsunami, not the generator placement.

Even among the newly homeless from the tsunami, there is a sense of civility and community that creates pause among international onlookers.

However, by means of tsunami inverse method, the vertical seafloor displacement can be calculated implicitly.

But the Tokyo Electric Power Company envisages only dozens of kilometers of fault, the case of the tsunami a few meters.

It's like a tsunami of athletes on the first Sunday of every November.

Only in 2005, following the Indian Ocean tsunami, did it adopt an agreement obliging members to help one another in natural calamities.

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

Television footage showed a tsunami wave bearing down on the Japanese coastline near the community of Sendai.

WHO has appealed for 12. 5 million dollars to help Sri Lanka recover from the devastation of the tsunami over the next six months.

But her heart was with her husband and four children, who were dealing with the tsunami and its after-math.

The Bush-Clinton Houston Tsunami Fund will contribute up to $1 million to the United Nations' "adopt-an-island" program in the Maldives.

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

Im very glad that I was able to say on the beach that a tsunami was coming. And Im glad that they listened to me.

It was more like "seeing a tsunami coming and there's nothing you can do about it, " says Mr Christensen.

In the face of calamity, a decent people has proved extremely resilient: no looting; very little complaining among the tsunami survivors.

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

The ancient " gifts " of the tsunami are expected to be presented to an international seminar on maritime archaeology in Delhi next month .

The total cost of post-tsunami reconstruction is estimated to be near $300 billion.

The latest troubles came as Japan continued to suffer ripple effects from Friday's massive 9-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami.

As any geologist knows, figuring out when a tsunami might strike means monitoring major earthquake activity around the globe .

Unlike in Friday's earthquake, there was no significant tsunami damage.

IT MAY not have been the electoral tsunami some pollsters had been predicting, but it was still pretty impressive.

Hundreds of dead bodies are being found among the buildings, cars and ships swept over the low-lying rice fields by the tsunami.

An earthquake off the coast of Indonesia triggered a tsunami that surged across the Indian Ocean, and reached as far as the coast of Africa.

Earthquake did not issue a tsunami warning, and no casualties were reported.

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

Concerns have been raised about whether the recent tsunami in South-East Asia may have increased the risk of an influenza pandemic.

earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.

The sound of a baby's cry amid the rubble seemed so impossible that soldiers searching a tsunami-smashed village dismissed it as a mistake.

A damaged house floats in a river in Kesennuma, Japan, days after the area was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami.

Amateur video footage, taken in a coastal town as the tsunami hit, reveals the full power of the tsunami in horrific detail.

'We called to ask the insurance company about coverage and they said we aren't covered because we do not have tsunami insurance. '

Natural disasters, like the earthquake and tsunami that pummeled Japan, often force refineries to shut down, leading to higher fuel prices.

Witnesses said the fires were sparked after the tsunami knocked over several cars, causing them to leak oil and gas.

Will Europe step up to the plate and warn their people about the pending tsunami? Per the Zetas, this simply will not occur.

A warning of tsunami waves up to one meter in height was quickly issued, but withdrawn just over an hour later.

Even so, there is no clear evidence that any of these phenomena influenced the Japan earthquake and tsunami.

Many farmers were among the victims killed by the tsunami waves, also extension workers and experts working for agricultural institutions.

We have seen events like the 2004 tsunami, and recently Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and a typhoon in the Philippines.

Incredibly, several eyewitnesses on the bay at the time the tsunami struck, lived to tell the tale.

Hundreds of cars and large parts of the area surrounding Sendai Airport were submerged as the tsunami flooded nearby waterways.

Our company was destroyed by the tsunami, leaving nothing but myself.

Japanese weather officials are advising residents in the area to flee to higher ground. There have been no reports of tsunami waves so far.

Japanese stocks rebounded as concerns over the long-term impact of Friday's earthquake and tsunami on Japan's economy ease.

When I stood up to speak to my people about God and the tsunami, I had no answers to offer them.

It has marshalled tens of thousands of Self Defence Force troops to the tsunami-pounded coastline and welcomed foreign rescue teams.

When the 2004 tsunami hit the Indian Ocean, America sent the Seventh Fleet of the U. S. Navy to help evacuees. China sent a cargo ship.

Moreover, the senators say, with the huge costs of the March earthquake and tsunami, Japan can hardly afford to add to its fiscal burden.

An elderly woman cries nearby, wondering whether her mother was killed by Japan's tsunami.

The experience of the tsunami suggests that agencies will not be able to spend it.

The tsunami assault, he said, could be a call to action.

Zynga, the world's largest social gaming company, hopes to raise $2 million for Save the Children's Japan Earthquake Tsunami Emergency Fund.

That includes debris from the Japan tsunami, scientists are finding that trash, especially plastic inside fish and birds out in the Pacific.

The plant's reactors have two to three backup generators each, he said, but the tsunami knocked them out.

The other thing that influenced me were the two tsunami alerts that we went through in two years!

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

SOME natural disasters, like the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, strike out of the blue.

At the beginning of the film Marie, on holiday in South-East Asia, has a near-death experience during the 2004 Asian tsunami.

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

The news follows allegations that Fukushima was crippled by the earthquake, not the ensuing tsunami as previously thought.

They reported that there was an 8. 5 magnitude earthquake in Sumatra , which triggered the massive tsunami .

These regions, and Hangzhou, are clearly being warned about tsunami and a suddenly rising sea level as the plate is bend and pulled down.

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

now back at the white house , president bush is starting the first week of the year with a big push on tsunami relief efforts.

They suggest that the macroeconomic effects of the tsunami, though hardly negligible, will not be devastating and will not last very long.

And, a deeper look at Aceh, Indonesia and how the calamity of the 2004 Asian Tsunami may have brought peace to this war torn province.

Lehman Brothers threw the Wall Street storm heavier by their bankruptcy and the American Economy, plunged into the tsunami.

Deep-ocean pressure sensors and coastal tide gauges are the only tools available to detect and measure a tsunami.

Her relative was killed by one of the deadliest natural disasters that we have ever seen: the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Two weeks after northeastern Japan was struck by a massive earthquake and tsunami, the cost of the disaster is becoming clearer.

"Oral traditions are a very efficient means of tsunami education, " Day said.

During Golden Week holidays this month, thousands of volunteers helped to sift through the muddy wreckage left by the March tsunami.

The tsunami, triggered by an earthquake off Indonesia, left 300, 000 dead in countries around the Indian Ocean.

If your Facebook page or Twitter feed lights up with news of a tsunami off the California coast, don't get too worried.

Much of the tsunami-detection effort has focused on Sumatra, where the Indian Ocean tsunami took a horrendous toll.

He said some shipments of iron ore that were on the way to Japan have been turned away since Friday's earthquake and tsunami.

A local official in the town of Futaba said more than 90% of the houses in three coastal communities had been washed away by the tsunami.

The Bank also led the damage and needs assessment after the Pakistan earthquake and Tsunami.

Tsunami is sometimes powerful enough to destroy a coastwise building it strikes, still more a ship in its path.

Asian markets were able to shrug off the economic impact of the 2004 tsunami pretty quickly.

The wave set off tsunami alerts across the Pacific, as far away as South America, New Zealand and the U. S. west coast.

All the systems performed as they were expected to do when the tsunami compromised the fuel source of the generators.

Indonesia was hit by an earthquake, tsunami, and volcanic eruption in less than 48 hours.

A catastrophe is something like an earthquake, a tsunami, a war and so forth. And a blip is everything else.

Though Friday's tsunami caused tremendous devastation in northern Japan, its impact elsewhere appears to have been modest.

A year earlier Cannon Beach was hit by a tsunami (an enormous wave).

The time a tsunami originating around Tonga is likely to take to reach the Queensland coast is probably less than three hours.

Following the Tsunami in Asia, our Health Action in Crises unit used it to its maximum advantage to coordinate responses.

THAT "tsunami" is one of the few Japanese words in global use points to the country's familiarity with natural disaster.

It's the poor who suffered most in the tsunami and I wanted to give information to them and a voice for their concerns.

Japan cannot evade this tsunami, but by taking bold measures we hope to be the first in the world to come out of recession.

Which city would be LEAST likely to be threatened by a tsunami?

The water washed away boats, cars and houses in coastal areas north of Tokyo. It also led to tsunami warnings across the Pacific.

Tsunami will not occur to any ostensible degree because there is a void being created, where the waters will rush.

Earthquake tsunami is the result of interaction between the solid layer and the fluid layer of Earth's surface.

The broadcaster says whole villages in parts of Japan's north-eastern Pacific coast were swept away by a tsunami reaching seven metres high.

In this complex situation, Russia Stock market the global finance Tsunami 's influence, the total collapse, falls to for ten year bottom.

But the harm that a tsunami causes can be lessened by people being prepared, by timely warnings and by an effective plan of action.

Such a system was instrumental in finding and controlling disease in Aceh following the tsunami.

Hundreds of thousands of people died in the tsunami triggered by an offshore earthquake.

Up to 300 bodies were washed ashore after the tsunami, and fires have raged along the north-eastern coastline.

But the cooling systems, some of which use sea water to keep the reactor temperatures down, appear to have been affected by the tsunami.

After all, the core reactor survived one of the biggest ever earthquakes and subsequent tsunami.

But this technical change, which proceeds like a tsunami, has nothing to do with globalisation.

Do Singaporeans need a national disaster on the scale of Japan's earthquake and tsunami to coalesce a sense of national solidarity?

California residents could be soon evacuated amid tsunami fears, a state emergency agency spokesman told Reuters.

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.

Aid and power supplies remained patchy in the northern region of Japan stricken by an earthquake and tsunami.

Many survivors fled the approaching tsunami on foot, leaving vehicles to be swept up by the sea.

We are in the midst of a once-in-a century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.

Indeed, post-tsunami reconstruction, they think, is a way to dole out public-works contracts, just as in the old days.

Japan Meteorological Agency immediately issued a tsunami warning, said the earthquake will lead to about 6 meters high tsunami.

The tsunami hit the coastline around the Indian Ocean. As a consequence, thousands of people died and more became homeless.

A strong earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea's northern coast, causing residents who feared a tsunami to seek higher ground.

Japan has asked for international help as it battles to cool nuclear reactors at a power station damaged in Friday's earthquake and tsunami.

The Network is also involved in setting up the early warning systems being established following the Tsunami disaster.

One detection method uses a buoy system that warns coastal communities in the United States of an approaching tsunami.

The general failure to predict the Tunisian political tsunami could spring from inattention.

Of course, passive survivability assumes that the structure remains intact after an event like a tropical storm or tsunami.

But as the tsunami propagates into the really deep water of the Pacific Basin, [the shallower origin] does decrease its amplitude somewhat.

But it was thrice blighted. After the earthquake and tsunami, fuel from the fishing boats caught fire, and for four days the port burned.

Kazuaki Sakai, 70, said he watched from a hill as the tsunami waves roared into the town.

The largest relief effort in world history continues to help the millions of homeless and injured survivors in the tsunami disaster.

And "partial meltdown" was the case for three Japan reactors following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March.

Europe is not without a tsunami warning system, and this can be enhanced with additional buoys.

The Indonesian government declared a state of emergency for tsunami-affected areas.

Supply shortages after the March tsunami certainly did not help.

The tremor was so massive that thousands fled their homes from coastlines around the Pacific Rim, fearful of a tsunami .

A woman passing nearby became nearly hysterical after a small aftershock left her convinced another tsunami was imminent.

At stores across the city, long, straight lines of Japanese tsunami victims have been waiting for rations in the city.

As this earthquake took place on land, it would not be expected to generate a large tsunami.

South Asia, seismic tsunami caused by the radioactivity pollution of Japan, the horror of that self inspire book is popular.

For just minutes after the emotional reunion, the shell-shocked survivors were told that a second tsunami might be on its way.

It started with a mock earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, triggering a virtual tsunami wave that crossed the Indian Ocean in 12 hours.

A large ship swept away by the tsunami rammed into a breakwater in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan describes the current financial crisis as a once-in-a-century credit tsunami .

The Oshika peninsula, devastated by the tsunami, welcomes visitors by boasting of its two main industries, whaling and nuclear power.

This side effect can mean that even a year after a tsunami, people are still dying from the wave.

Post-tsunami reconstruction is taking place at time of constitutional reform and deepening of democratic institutions.

Indeed, networks have washed over corporate america like a tsunami, dramatically altering the architecture of computing.

Whale bones on mountain tops well inland were not lifted by Tsunami waves, nor carried inland atop such a wave.