Russia 8.2 earthquake is big but no deaths
Russia 8.2 earthquake: The USGS says it was even bigger, an 8.3 earthquake, and felt as far away as Moscow. But the Russia earthquake caused no fatalities.
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Who’s ready for The Big One on New Madrid fault?
By Michael Fitzgerald/CNHI News ServiceIt’s a bleak scenario. A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault kills or injures 60,000 people in Tennessee. A quarter of a million people are homeless. The Memphis airport — the country’s biggest air terminal for packages — goes off-line. Major oil and gas pipelines across Tennessee rupture, causing shortages in the Northeast. In Missouri, another 15,000 people are hurt or dead. Cities and towns throughout the central United States lose power and water for months. Losses stack up to hundreds of billions of dollars...
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Easter Island statue erected in Japan tsunami town
A giant statue from Chile's Easter Island on Saturday found a new home in a small tsunami-devastated Japanese town where it will become a symbol for its recovery.
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Sacramento man makes light of earthquake, gets chuckles and criticism
Tillie Fong (tfong@sacbee.com)Andy Duong is experiencing a different type of aftershock since he created a meme that gave his spin on Thursday night's Greenville earthquake.
Sacramento earthquake meme
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Yuba-Sutter not trembling about tremors
By Eric Vodden/A-D ReporterEarthquakes are pretty low on the list of natural disasters that directly concern most Yuba-Sutter residents. "It's not out of the realm of possibility, but we certainly are more likely to feel an earthquake that is outside of our boundaries," says...
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Radiation levels unchanged after Sea of Okhotsk quake - Rosatom
Friday&aposs earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk did not effect radiation levels in the Far East and other Russian regions, a spokesman for the state atomic energy corporation Rosatom said during a conference call at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry&aposs National Crisis Management Center.