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New reactor fire as Japan works to contain threat
Associated Press - Mon Mar 14, 2011
SOMA, Japan - A new fire broke out at a nuclear reactor early Wednesday, a day after the power plant emitted a burst of radiation that panicked an already edgy Japan and left the government struggling to contain a spiraling crisis caused by last week's earthquake and tsunami. More»

Meltdown alert at Japan reactor
BBC - Sun Mar 13, 2011
Technicians are battling to stabilise a third reactor at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant that has been rocked by a second blast in three days. More»

Hydrogen explosion at stricken Japanese nuke plant
Associated Press - Sat Mar 12, 2011
TOKYO - Japan's chief cabinet secretary says a hydrogen explosion has occurred at Unit 3 of Japan's stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. More»

Japan warns of second nuclear plant explosion
AFP - Sat Mar 12, 2011
Japan's top government spokesman has warned of the risk of a second explosion at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, but said that reactor three could withstand it as reactor one did a day earlier. More»

Partial Meltdowns Presumed at Crippled Reactors
New York Times - Sat Mar 12, 2011
TOKYO - Three days after a massive earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese authorities were still struggling Sunday to avoid full meltdowns at a plant with two stricken reactors on Japan's coast. More»

Japan quake causes emergencies at 5 nuke reactors
Associated Press - Thu Mar 10, 2011
TOKYO - Japan declared states of emergency for five nuclear reactors at two power plants after the units lost cooling ability in the aftermath of Friday's powerful earthquake. More»

New Zealand earthquake rips a new fault line across the world
The Daily Mail - Sat Sep 4, 2010
New Zealand's powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted railway lines around Christchurch ripped a new 11ft wide fault line in the earth's surface, a geologist said today. More»

85 elderly quake survivors await death in Haiti
Associated Press - Sat Jan 16, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The old lady crawls in the dirt, wailing for her pills. More»

7.0 quake hits Haiti; many casualties expected
Associated Press - Tue Jan 12, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace. More»

Recent Midwest Quakes Called Aftershocks from 1800s
Live Science - Tue Nov 3, 2009
The small earthquakes that sporadically rattle the central United States may actually be aftershocks from a few extremely large quakes that occurred in the region almost 200 years ago, according to a new study. More»

Controversial study suggests vast magma pool under Washington state
McClatchy Newspapers - Mon Oct 26, 2009
WASHINGTON - A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains - Mount St. Helens , Mount Rainier and Mount Adams - according to a new study that's causing a stir among scientists. More»

Massive Quake Moves New Zealand Closer To Australia
AFP - Tue Jul 21, 2009
WELLINGTON - A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has moved the south of New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists said Wednesday. More»

More small quakes rattle Yellowstone National Park
Associated Press - Fri Jan 2, 2009
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming - More earthquakes are rattling Yellowstone National Park. More»

To predict quakes, listen to the animals, China survivors say
AFP - Sat May 24, 2008
TANGSHAN, China - Well before this city was destroyed by an earthquake 32 years ago, the coming disaster was loudly preceded by strange animal behaviour and other bizarre signals that survivors wish they heeded. More»

Rescuers at China quake epicenter, digging by hand
Associated Press - Tue May 13, 2008
HANWANG, China - Soldiers rushed to shore up a dam cracked by this week's powerful earthquake, and rescuers came by helicopter and ship Wednesday into the isolated epicenter but still were forced to dig for survivors with their bare hands. More»

Nearly 900 students trapped by China earthquake
Associated Press - Sun May 11, 2008
BEIJING - A powerful earthquake struck central China on Monday, trapping nearly 900 students after their school collapsed and leaving at least 107 people dead across several provinces, state media reported. More»

Earthquake death toll in China may be 5,000
Associated Press - Sun May 11, 2008
CHONGQING, China - Chinese state media say 3,000 to 5,000 people have died in one county in Sichuan province alone from a massive earthquake. More»

Chile volcano erupts, villages evacuated
Associated Press - Thu May 1, 2008
SANTIAGO, Chile - Authorities evacuated hundreds of people from villages in southern Chile Friday after a snowcapped volcano considered dormant for thousands of years erupted. More»

Powerful earthquake hits Caribbean
Associated Press - Wed Nov 28, 2007
ROSEAU, Dominica - A powerful earthquake rocked the eastern Caribbean Thursday, sending office workers and shoppers on several islands fleeing into the streets. More»

Desperate search for quake victims as aftershocks rock Peru
AFP - Thu Aug 16, 2007
PISCO, Peru - Powerful aftershocks rattled rescuers as they clawed through rubble Friday in a desperate search for survivors two days after a massive earthquake claimed some 500 lives in Peru. More»

Death toll hits 450 in Peru earthquake
Associated Press - Wed Aug 15, 2007
ICA, Peru - The death toll rose to 450 on Thursday in the magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated cities of adobe and brick in Peru's southern desert. More»

Powerful 7.5 earthquake hits Indonesia
Associated Press - Tue Aug 7, 2007
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake under the Java Sea shook Indonesia's capital early Thursday, violently shaking tall buildings and panicking residents. More»

Mystery Vibrations Detected Inside Earth
LiveScience.com - Thu Apr 13, 2006
Tremors deep inside the Earth are usually produced by magma flowing beneath volcanoes, but a new study suggests they can also be produced by the shifting and sliding of tectonic plates. More»

Archeologists unearth 'Chinese Pompeii' destroyed in quake 700 years ago
AFP - Sun May 15, 2005
Chinese archaeologists have discovered what could well be a local version of Italy's Pompeii, in the form of an entire village destroyed in an earthquake nearly 700 years ago, state media has reported. More»

Tsunami Reveals Ancient Ruins in India
AP - Wed Mar 16, 2005
MAHABALIPURAM, India - For a few minutes, after the water had receded far from the shore and before it came raging back as a tsunami, the fishermen stood along the beach and stared at the reality of generations of legends. More»

Tsunamis Reveal Ancient Sculptures on Southern Indian Shores
AFP - Fri Feb 11, 2005
MAHABALIPURAM - The deadly tsunamis that crashed into southern India have unearthed priceless relics, including two granite lions, buried under sand for centuries, archaeologists say. More»

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