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GENEVA, March 12 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation(WHO) said on Saturday that the public health risk from Japan's [More]
Read More »Japan radiation leak evokes U.S. Three Mile Island
* Radiation echoes Three Mile Island, but no meltdown yet * Stricken reactor dates from 1970s, newer models "safer" [More]
Read More »Wind blows south-to-north at quake-hit Japan nuclear plant
TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - The wind at a nuclear plant inJapan that is leaking radiation is blowing from the south, which [More]
Read More »Radiation leaking from Japan’s quake-hit nuclear plant
* Report that nuclear building's outer structure blown off * Gov't says radiation level low, major leakage not expected [More]
Read More »A mother 35 times: elderly albatross is still laying eggs
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Read More »A Visual Tour of the Massive Earthquake and Tsunami That Hit Japan [Slide Show]
At 2:46 pm local time March 11, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Sendai, a port city of one million residents in northeastern Japan. It was the largest earthquake recorded in Japan in the last century.
Read More »The Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
On March 11, a powerful, 8.9-magnitude quake hit northeast Japan, triggering a tsunami with 10-meter-high waves that reached the U.S. West Coast.
Read More »The spread of the tsunami from Japan across the Pacific [Video]
The National Ocanic and Atmospheric Administration released this video showing the spread of the tsunami generated by a magnitude 8.9 quake off Sendai, Japan, on March 11. [More]
Read More »Worldwide Monitoring Network Allows for Rapid Tsunami Warnings
At 2:46 P.M. Tokyo time, one of the largest earthquakes of the past century hit just off the coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan. The 8.9-magnitude quake stirred up massive tsunami waves that battered coastal cities, especially along the east coast north of Tokyo.
Read More »NOAA map predicts tsunami wave heights around the Pacific Rim
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Read More »Seconds Before the Big One: Progress in Earthquake Alarms
Editor's note (3/11/11): This article is from the forthcoming April issue of S cientific Aemrican . We are posting the text of the article early in light of the deadly Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami
Read More »Nature : Earthquake dispatches from the correspondent in Japan
Our partners at Nature have a correspondent in Japan.
Read More »‘Sixth sense’ for earthquake prediction? Give me a break!
This post is a slightly edited version of my December 29, 2004, post written in reaction to media reports about a "sixth sense" in animals, that supposedly allows them to avoid a tsunami by climbing to higher ground.
Read More »Japan earthquake demonstrates the limitsand powerof science
Will seismologists ever be able to reliably predict the exact location, time and magnitude of earthquakes like the one that just devastated Japan and sent tsunamis racing across the Pacific Ocean? If so, they might be able to save many lives.
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