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In March, it will have been a year ever since the earthquake and tsunamis that struck a major blow to Japan, killing tens of thousands of people and inflicting immense destruction.
The nuclear meltdown that followed made everything even worse.
Still, even though the radiation from the power plant is a prime co... |
7 January 2012
05:16 GMT |
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Researchers at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) say that a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the Rat Islands, in Alaska, in the late hours of Sunday, October 30. The event took place at 10:16:21 pm (local time) at the epicenter.
That is the equivalent of 0716 UTC, on Monday, October 31. According to American... |
1 November 2011
09:47 GMT |
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Google has set up the Crisis Response Team and has been using the Google Person Finder tool to help in emergencies when people are trying to find information and are having little luck, due to overloaded infrastructure and general lack of data.Google Person Finder, launched in January 2010 after the Haiti earthquake,... |
24 October 2011
05:18 GMT |
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It has been months since the disaster that hit Japan on March 10, 2011, but things are still far from restored, and they might never be, though Supermicro, among others, still tried to help in its own way. It is too late to go back and save all the lives that were lost during the earthquake, and subsequent tsunamis... |
13 October 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Predicting where earthquakes will strike next and when is nearly impossible, but researchers are making headway in their efforts to at least figure out which areas are the most likely to be hit. A team of experts at the University of California in Davis (UCD) developed the most accurate such model.
This was establ... |
1 October 2011
04:58 GMT |
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The massive tremor that struck the Asian island nation of Japan this spring was arguably one of the first ever whose effects were captured on radar. Investigators in both Japan and California watched the ripples produced by the massive tsunami as they spread across the Pacific Ocean.Just a few days ago, scientists pu... |
18 August 2011
06:00 GMT |
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An analysis conducted by researchers at the Stanford University, in the United States, reveals the reasons why the magnitude 9 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 caused such a massive tsunami.According to the investigators, the unusual fault lines located northeast of the capital Tokyo ruptured in a very unusua... |
25 May 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Media outlets around the world report that the reactor #1 facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suffered a nuclear meltdown. The announcement was made by officials at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which manages the installation.
Engineers with the company entered the reactor buildi... |
14 May 2011
06:29 GMT |
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South America's Andes mountains are subjected to a very high risk of experiencing a massive earthquake, experts say. The magnitude of the tremor would make it about 10 times stronger than any other similar event that took place in the same area ever before. The tremor risk should be shared with the millions of p... |
10 May 2011
05:46 GMT |
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The conclusions of a new study published today indicate that nuclear reactions restarted at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant about 12 days after the March 11 tremor and tsunami hit. Using limited data collected from the power plant, University of Tokyo researcher Tetsuo Matsui shows that conditions were righ... |
9 May 2011
06:04 GMT |
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The massive earthquake and tidal waves that struck Japan back in March were bound to make their effect felt on the IT industry, and it looks like PC and phones are turning into exhibit A.The thing about large-scale disasters is that they have a tendency of crippling the entire infrastructure of a nation and even aff... |
7 May 2011
07:14 GMT |
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The village of Aneyoshi, in Japan, was spared the wrath of the tsunami that hit the country on March 11 because its inhabitants listened to the warnings set in stone by their ancestors – a large rock telling people not to build their homes below that point.Warnings such as this one are not at all rare in Japan.... |
21 April 2011
04:55 GMT |
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March 11, 2011 is a date that marked the beginning of a type of crisis that Japan hasn't experienced since World War II. The population living in the tsunami- or earthquake-affected areas is starting to experience the effects of food insecurity, most of them for the first time in their lives. This effect is larg... |
18 April 2011
03:36 GMT |
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Security researchers warn about scams leveraging news of the earthquake that hit the northeast coast of Japan yesterday, leading to renewed fears about the unstable situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.A 7.1 magnitude earthquake believed to be an aftershock of the one that generated a devastating tsunami ... |
8 April 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Reports are beginning to surface of a new, large earthquake in Japan. According to the automated seismic monitoring network maintained by the United States Geological Survey, the new event had a magnitude of 7.4, and it occurred at 11:32:41 UTC today, April 7, 2011.The epicenter of the new tremor was located at a dep... |
7 April 2011
11:19 GMT |
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Reports that appeared in the Russian over the past couple of days quote the opinion of seismologists saying that a new earthquake could hit Japan. A fault line relatively close to the one that spawned the March 11 tremor has great potential for producing a strong seismic event. The conclusion belongs to an analysis m... |
7 April 2011
10:28 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it has managed to raise more than 1.3 million dollars that will be used to provide relief in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami from those who use the PlayStation Network service.
The company asked gamers who use the PSN to donate money as early as M... |
6 April 2011
10:27 GMT |
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The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, besides claiming a huge death toll and causing a nuclear crisis, did a bit of damage to the IT industry, but it looks like at least one company feels worries should not be too high.As one would no doubt have learned by now, on March 11, 2011, an earthquake wi... |
31 March 2011
09:51 GMT |
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According to news reports, Japanese emergency responders have yet to bring reactors 1 to 4 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. Additionally, new problems have now developed, including massive levels of radioactive iodine and several leaks. Reactors 5 and 6 continue to remain in good conditions... |
30 March 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has committed no less than $2 million to help relief efforts in Japan, a mix of cash and in-kind contributions. Information about the Redmond company involvement with helping Japan recover from the natural disaster that struck earlier this month is provided through the Microsoft Disaster Response site for ... |
28 March 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Engineers in Japan were able to repair the Tsukuba Space Center (TSC), the country's primary control room for segments of the International Space Station, unmanned space capsules and astronaut training.
The facility was restored to normal operations just 11 days after the massive, magnitude 9.0 earthquake tha... |
25 March 2011
03:52 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the massive earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, geologists, physicists and planetary scientists have began an ample campaign to determine what went wrong with the tectonic plates that ruptured during the magnitude 9.0 disaster. Following the 1995 Kobe earthquake, experts were convinced that ... |
23 March 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Last June, the Hayabusa sample-return mission finally made its way back to Earth, after years of wandering damaged through space. The fine dust grains recovered from its sample container cannot be processed and analyzed however, due to the damage caused in the necessary installations by a tremor.On March 11, 2011, a ... |
23 March 2011
04:39 GMT |
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The United States have more coastline that any other nation on Earth, and the country is exposed to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, in addition to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Residents in these areas should not take the threat of tsunamis lightly, authorities warn.Experts with the US National Oceanic a... |
22 March 2011
06:34 GMT |
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It was hard to get an idea of just how severely the IT market was hurt by the disaster that hit japan on March 11, but it seems things are finally becoming clear, and they are looking none too well.The one big problem in Japan, even now, is the ongoing crisis at the damaged nuclear power plant, in danger of reactor ... |
22 March 2011
04:32 GMT |
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As Japan was being severely affected by the March 11 tremor and tsunamis, a Japanese astronaut was carrying on with his preparations for a six-month stay in space at a facility in the United States. Though given the option, the would-be space flyer decided to carry on with the mission.Eleven days ago, a magnitude 9.0... |
22 March 2011
04:01 GMT |
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Images and video of the recent natural disaster in Japan are abundant on the web, but to truly get a perspective over the devastation that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami caused, users can head over to Bing Maps.
“Bing created a new, high-quality map tool to help relief agencies and others navigate thr... |
21 March 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Some segments of the IT industry may have managed to get away more or less intact after the disaster in Japan, but it seems the HDD segment was far less fortunate than most, as the earthquake did quite some damage to major facilities in the country.The disaster that hit Japan on March 11 will go down in history as o... |
21 March 2011
06:52 GMT |
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Following the March 11 earthquake that struck Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been severely damaged. Emergency workers have been managing the situation ever since. At this point, experts are starting to identify the high-priority actions that need to be undertaken to avoid disaster.Four nuclear r... |
21 March 2011
05:28 GMT |
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Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab warn that the wave of spam emails taking advantage of the disaster in Japan continues with a new campaign that leads users to Java exploits.The latest spam run claims to link to a news article about the quake being the costliest disaster in the world's history.However, Kas... |
21 March 2011
03:58 GMT |
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A number of scientists in the United States have been trying lately to reassure the general public that the effects of the nuclear crisis currently unfolding in Japan will not affect the country. They also spoke about the possible repercussions of an earthquake striking nuclear power plants in the US as well. There ... |
19 March 2011
07:55 GMT |
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It appears that, while most IT players are trying to make sure the Japan disaster affected them as little as possible, Renesas is one that ended up worse off than most, meaning that it will have trouble filling its role as supplier of USB 3.0 controllers.
Some AMD motherboards are already natively supporting the ... |
19 March 2011
06:47 GMT |
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Following the March 11 earthquake that struck Japan, authorities and the population alike have been caught in a whirlwind of activities that need to be performed immediately, such as relief response, clean-up, search and rescue and so on. The psychological damage of the tremor will develop later on.At least this is t... |
18 March 2011
10:02 GMT |
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Emergency responders in Japan have began using helicopters to try and maintain temperatures within manageable limits at reactor #3 a the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) away from Tokyo. The situation at this particular building was degrading rapidly, and so authorities decided t... |
17 March 2011
09:08 GMT |
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Japanese authorities have been expecting an earthquake similar to the one that struck the country for nearly three decades now, but they were surely not expecting it to strike in the region it did. Geologists say that the fault line that ruptured to produce the magnitude 9.0 tremor that struck 80 miles east of the ci... |
17 March 2011
05:13 GMT |
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Soon after the March 11 earthquake struck Japan, the country activated a provision in an international charter, that allowed several space agencies, including the European one (ESA) to provide satellite images to emergency responders. The International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' is triggered only a... |
16 March 2011
09:10 GMT |
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As emergency responders struggle to keep three reactors at a Japanese nuclear power plant from going into meltdown, experts are analyzing the chain of events that led to this situation in the first place. The fact that it happened shows that you can never be too careful when building a nuclear reactor. The incident i... |
16 March 2011
05:44 GMT |
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Perched some 354 kilometers (220 miles) above the planet's surface, the International Space Station (ISS) provides an amazing vantage point for high-resolution photography. Unfortunately, astronauts aboard recently had the task of imaging the extent of the damage caused by the March 11 earthquake. The tremor str... |
16 March 2011
04:09 GMT |
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The disaster currently unfolding at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan could have been prevented, had the reactors been constructed more recently, and with more advanced technology.Scientists say that the six boiling-water reactors (BWR) at the facility are of an old design, that is not too stable, an... |
15 March 2011
12:02 GMT |
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It appears that many things happened because of the recent disaster in Japan, even in regards to the different segments of the IT industry, one of which seems to be progressing in a positive direction, ironically enough.There are no words that can describe just how dismal the situation in Japan is at the moment, wit... |
15 March 2011
11:03 GMT |
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Civil engineers say that the situation Japan finds itself in now can be used as a starting point for developing even more advanced defense networks, against earthquakes and tsunamis. Even if the Asian nation is widely considered to be the most prepared in the world when it comes to dealing with the effects of such ca... |
15 March 2011
10:01 GMT |
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The failure of three nuclear reactors in Japan has prompted talks in the United States about the risk the country runs of being exposed to radioactive particles emanating from the facility. According to experts, the general public can rest assured that little to no such particles will reach North America. At this poi... |
15 March 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Over the past three days, three explosions rocked the reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The facility was heavily affected by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck off the nation's shorelines on March 11. Three reactors at the plant are now going into meltdown.Japanese officials ... |
15 March 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Everyone's talking these days about the huge disaster that hit Japan last Friday, the very powerful earthquake followed by a strong tsunami wave seriously affecting the northeastern part of Japan and, consequently, all of the companies who had plants established in the respective region.And that's also the ... |
14 March 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Today, mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless announced that its customers are offered the possibility to call to Japan for free from now until April 10th, and that it also introduced a mobile giving program for those who would like to contribute to Japan relief efforts.All Verizon Wireless post-paid customers are of... |
14 March 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Once again, it seems that, predictably, the massive destruction in Japan is about to take its toll on a segment of the IT industry, in this case that of LCD flat panels, although the effect appears to be minor.The natural disaster that hit Japan last week can easily be classified as one of the most devastating in re... |
14 March 2011
08:30 GMT |
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It appears that the worldwide market for NAND Flash memory chips did not get away unscathed after the natural disaster that struck Japan last week and left very serious problems in its wake.No doubt people will have already learned of the natural disaster that took place in Japan last week, namely an 8.9-magnitude e... |
14 March 2011
07:28 GMT |
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Already much has been said about the far-reaching consequences of the disaster that struck Japan last week, and it seems that the DRAM market as a whole is going through an uncertain period.For months, DRAM prices have been going lower and lower, until they hit a sort of bottom during February, a level they stuck to... |
14 March 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Things are definitely not going well in Japan, as the natural disaster that struck last week has left much of the infrastructure severely impaired, and this extends to Elpida, essentially the only DRAM maker that the country has.For those that need an update, the strong, 8.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan la... |
14 March 2011
05:21 GMT |
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The earthquake and tsunamis in Japan definitely took the world itself by surprise, and not in a good way considering the cost of human lives, but it seems not all those that could have been affected suffered that badly.The natural disaster that struck Japan last week will definitely go down in history as one of the ... |
14 March 2011
04:43 GMT |
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