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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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Japan's whaling fleet is preparing for an ambitious goal. Participants plan to kill 900 minke whales and 50 fin whales this year, relying on taxpayers' money. This rumor has raised the anger of conservation groups, whose members say the unwanted, unnecessary operation is wasting an approximately 2.28 billio... |
7 December 2011
05:54 GMT |
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The recent events which shook and washed Japan made the researchers redefine trees' importance in fighting natural catastrophes of such proportions. Experts say that Indonesia could have had less victims after the tsunami which washed its surface in 2004, if only it relied on the benefits provided by coastal tre... |
8 November 2011
08:33 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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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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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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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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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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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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Security researchers from Sophos warn of multiple Facebook clickjacking scams that force users to Like rogue pages by using fake Japanese tsunami videos as lure.After a devastating tsunami resulting from a 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan last week, security experts knew that it was only a matter of time until scam... |
14 March 2011
00:39 GMT |
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Security researchers advise users to exercise caution when searching for information about the massive earthquake and tsunami waves that hit Japan, because they might end up on scareware pages.The Internet is abuzz with updates on the devastating effects of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit today 130 kilometers o... |
11 March 2011
08:58 GMT |
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A massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan several hours ago. Along with the aftershocks, some with a magnitude of 7.4, huge earthquakes in their own right, the country has been hit by a waves of tsunamis several meters high.While earthquakes are common in Japan and the country is thoroughly prepared for these kind... |
11 March 2011
06:24 GMT |
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A team of geologists from the US and Haiti, that have been studying the January 12 Haiti earthquake, say that other cities like Los Angeles, Istanbul or Kingston also risk being struck by a tsunamis, and the actual catastrophe risk is much higher than expected.The explanation for this statement is pretty logical: all... |
11 October 2010
08:47 GMT |
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Understanding the forming and the behavior of large amplitude waves could help scientists build efficient tsunami warning systems.Adrian Constantin, Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Vienna, is trying to prove scientifically, what every seaman knows: the shape of surface waves gives an idea... |
19 August 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Astronomers in Italy have determined that our society could be at risk of getting seriously damaged by a potential impact between our planet and an asteroid. Such a collision could take place in approximately 160 years, between 2169 and 2199, and the main suspect is an asteroid known as 1999 RQ36. It posed no dan... |
9 February 2009
07:04 GMT |
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A new research performed by Caltech experts indicates that the threat of a major earthquake in the region of one of the world's most active faults located in Sumatra is extremely high. The area has been affected many times by such monster-magnitude events, the most recent having taken place in September last yea... |
4 December 2008
14:31 GMT |
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A group of scientists from the Harvard University led by Katherine Cagen claims that a massive tsunami wave splashed ashore some 2,300 years ago, mightily sweeping the coastal regions of New York deeply inland. Even more, the researchers indicate it is most likely that the catastrophe was caused by an ancient asteroi... |
21 November 2008
03:12 GMT |
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Indonesia was caught by surprise and largely affected by a massive tsunami wave four years ago, which caused approximately 170,000 people to go missing or to be found dead across the sultanate of the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, situated on the northern portion of the Sumatra island. As a result, since then, a ... |
11 November 2008
09:24 GMT |
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The Indonesian and Thailand coasts of the Indian Ocean seem to have experienced tragedies like the 2004 enormous tsunami wave that killed in the hundreds of thousands more often than one might believe. Even more than that, this phenomenon could happen regularly, at a rate of 600 years, as the latest studies show. Acc... |
30 October 2008
05:55 GMT |
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The seven enormous coral chunks, as huge as a house, that have been cast away on Tonga's western shore may be linked to a giant volcano-triggered tsunami wave, claim scientists. On the remote island of Tongatapu, situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, researchers found evidence of an ancient natural catast... |
25 September 2008
05:43 GMT |
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According to a new study, the 9.3 magnitude earthquake that took place in the Indian Ocean in late 2004 and that was said to have unleashed the energy equivalent of 1.3 billion tons of TNT, or 100,000 Hiroshima bombs, killing over 225,000 people in the outcome of the resulted tsunami, could have generated other earth... |
26 May 2008
06:09 GMT |
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Solar tsunamis were first discovered by ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory during the late 1990s, when the spacecraft was launched. Solar tsunamis are in fact solar filaments which sweep across the surface of the Sun in a tsunami-like fashion, releasing great quantities of energy in very short periods of t... |
2 April 2008
09:45 GMT |
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Don't think that tsunamis are something connected only to the Indo-Pacific areas and that summering on the Mediterranean shores is safe. A mega-tsunami devastated eastern Mediterranean in 365 A.D. And this could repeat. A new research published in "Nature Geoscience" has detected the geological fault off the coa... |
11 March 2008
05:32 GMT |
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Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of the Atlantis, first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago, is about a real ancient civilization destroyed by the sea. The Atlantic Ocean got its name from Atlantis, as many subsequent civilizations placed ... |
10 December 2007
10:15 GMT |
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They are as mysterious as the European Atlantis: the submerged stones lying just below the waves splashing on the island of Yonaguni Jima could be the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis, an ancient unknown city sunk by a powerful earthquake about 2,000 years ago. Its main defender is Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at t... |
24 September 2007
04:40 GMT |
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The 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people and left half a million homeless in 12 countries. But a new one could be four times more disastrous, killing over a million people in South Asia's Bay of Bengal, but its date cannot be precisely predicted: it could strike Myanmar and Bangladesh in the next few decades or in... |
6 September 2007
05:11 GMT |
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They did not even know what struck them, but a tsunami was what hit an England shore 400 years ago, bringing about the deadliest natural disaster in the British history. The massive flood on January 30, 1607 went over the Bristol Channel (southwestern England), submerging over 190 square miles (500 square km) of lan... |
9 May 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Any myth bears a grain of truth and is not just about some stories invented by the human mind. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of Atlantis, the city state engulfed by the sea waters, was first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago and has been firing the popular imagination f... |
20 April 2007
06:18 GMT |
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Known as aurora borealis in northern latitudes (after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind) and as aurora australis in the South (australis meaning "of the South"), the beautiful lights in the sky are now known to be caused by the collision of charged particles (electrons), found in t... |
12 April 2007
08:58 GMT |
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The last one has just occurred in the Solomon Islands, taking with it at least 20 victims. But what's a tsunami?Tsunami ("harbor wave" in Japanese) represents a series of great sea waves provoked by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption and sometimes by the collision of a giant meteor with th... |
3 April 2007
03:31 GMT |
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