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Tag Archives: earthquake
3.2 Quake Rattles East Bay
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(Bay City News) A 3.2-magnitude earthquake shook the East Bay this afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck at 2:52 p.m. in roughly the same area that has experienced several 3.0-magnitude or larger seismic events in recent … Continue reading
3.6 East Bay Quake Felt Throughout Region
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If you think you felt an earthquake at 7:05 p.m. in the Bay Area, you did. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that it was magnitude 3.6 tremor with an epicenter just outside the northwest Contra Costa County town of Hercules. … Continue reading
Study Suggests Atmospheric Changes Signaled Japan's Monster Quake
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A team of Russian and American scientists is attracting worldwide attention with a paper that finds that Japan's devastating March earthquake was preceded by marked atmospheric changes near the quake's epicenter immediately before it struck. The finding is the latest … Continue reading
Japan's New Crisis: Fighting to Avert a Nuclear Disaster
Japan has barely begun responding to Friday's earthquake and tsunami, and already the government has been forced to focus on a potential new catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (Daiichi can be translated, by the way, as "first" … Continue reading
More Maps and Images of Japan's Great Quake
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The death toll from Friday's earthquake and tsunami are now expected to top 10,000. Having seen a relative handful of the flood of images that captured the disaster, that number is not surprising; it might even seem to be an … Continue reading
Japan's Great Quake: The California Perspective
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It goes without saying that in California, the fascination, the fear, and the horror of seeing the impact of Friday's earthquake in Japan all lie in how closely we can identify with the calamity visited upon the people there. Geologists … Continue reading
When the Tsunami Arrived in San Francisco Bay
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By way of the excellent Berkeleyside blog, some striking video—fascinating, not frightening—of a tsunami wave rolling past the Bay Bridge approach and into the Emeryville mudflats Friday morning:
Japan Quake-Tsunami Aftermath: Fears About Nuclear Plants
In Japan, attention is focusing in two places: First, search and rescue operations and the massive recovery ahead in the large sections of the northeastern coast devastated by Friday's earthquake and tsunamis. The other increasingly critical concern: the condition of … Continue reading
U.S. Geological Survey Breaks Down Monster Quake
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Here's the USGS preliminary report on the massive quake that smashed northeastern Japan last night/today depending on your time zone (when you see pictures of damage in Tokyo, bear in mind that's 230 miles from the quake's epicenter—about the same … Continue reading
Links to Coverage of Japan's 8.9 Quake, Tsunami
Here's NHK video of the scene inside a Tokyo office when the earthquake hit Friday afternoon Japan time. This is 230 miles from the epicenter. Think about it: Links to coverage of aftermath of Japan's 8.9 earthquake and tsunami: Live: … Continue reading
