Tag: Quake

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake jolted northern Japan on Monday, prompting officials to issue a tsunami warning that was later lifted. There were no reports of damage.
Japanese broadcaster NHK said a 50-cm tsunami wave had been expected to reach the shores of Miyagi prefecture, hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

WASHINGTON - A moderate 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of southern Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake hit 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Suchiate, Chiapas state, at a depth of 54 miles (87 km), the USGS said.

TACHILEIK - Rescuers battled Saturday to reach thousands of survivors in remote areas of Myanmar after an earthquake tore up roads and reduced hundreds of homes to rubble, leaving 75 people dead. The powerful 6.8 magnitude quake struck in the east of the country near the borders with Thailand and Laos late on Thursday and was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital Hanoi. The towns of Tarlay, Mong Lin and Tachileik in Myanmar's Shan state appeared to have been most severely

BEIJING - An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale hit Myanmar at 1:57 p.m. Beijing Time Saturday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
The epicenter was monitored at 20.8 degrees north latitude and 100.2 degrees east longitude with a depth of 10 kilometers, the center said.

OSAKA - The death toll from a massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan's northeast coast topped 10,000 on Friday, two weeks after the disaster struck, the National Police Agency said.
There are fears of a much higher toll from the disaster, which flattened or erased entire towns along the Pacific coast of the country's main island of Honshu.
The agency -- which collects data from the prefectures affected -- said that 10,066 had been confirmed dead and 17,443

TOKYO - Japan estimated the cost of the damage from its devastating earthquake and tsunami could top $300 billion as authorities in Tokyo warned that babies should not be given tap water because of radiation from a crippled nuclear plant. The first official estimate since the March 11 disaster covers damage to roads, homes, factories and infrastructure, and dwarfs losses from both the 1995 Kobe quake and Hurricane Katrina that swept through New Orleans in 2005, making it the world's

TOKYO - Movie bosses behind Hugh Jackman's upcoming 'Wolverine' sequel and James Cameron's 'Avatar 2' have reportedly put the projects on hold in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan.
The Australian actor is due to reprise his role as the clawed superhero for a sequel to 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which will see much of the action set in Japan. The project suffered a blow with the recent departure of director Darren Aronofsky, and now plans to film

KAMAISHI - Scores of countries have pledged aid to the victims of Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami, but little of it is visible in many towns and villages devastated by the disaster.
In some areas, as victims return to what remains of their homes, an unorganised and often chaotic array of help awaits them -- from boxes of donated clothes to free pet food, almost all donated by fellow Japanese.
Roads are wrecked in many areas, and there are acute shortages of fuel.

Once again, 50 Cent's tweets are a natural disaster. As Japan works around the clock to dig out and salvage lives and cities from the wreckage of the devastating 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the rapper took to Twitter to laugh about the situation. "Wave will hit 8am them crazy white boys gonna try to go surfing," he first tweeted on Friday morning.
Later in the afternoon, he said, "Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my hose's from LA, Hawaii and

KARACHI - A walk would be organised in the metropolis to express solidarity with the quake- and tsunami-hit people of Japan, said a press release issued on Friday. The walk would be held under the auspices of the Pakistan-Japan Cultural Association Sindh and the Pakistan Japan Business Forum. The walk would commence near the Salt n Pepper Village restaurant in DHA.

OFUNATO - Thick snow covered the wreckage littering quake-hit Japan on Thursday, all but extinguishing hopes of finding anyone alive in the debris and deepening danger and misery for survivors. A cold snap brought heavy blizzards over the country's northeast overnight, covering the tsunami-razed region in deep snow and vital highways in treacherous black ice. Half a million evacuees struggled to stay warm as rescuers said their efforts to help the devastated population were at risk,

TOKYO - Early estimates indicate a steep drop-off in box office revenue outside the U.S. immediately following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The country is one of Hollywood's biggest international markets, although industry analysts say the disaster's long-term financial impact on movie studios should be limited.
Box office revenue in Japan plunged about 41 percent last weekend, compared with the prior weekend, according to data from Rentrak Corp. In the U.S., the decline

TOKYO - Last week Prime Minister Naoto Kan was in a precarious position as his approval ratings tumbled, his foreign minister resigned and funding bills for a $1.1 trillion budget were at an impasse.
Such issues have been put on the back burner after the government was confronted by the strongest earthquake on record ever to hit Japan and the subsequent tsunamis it unleashed, now set to claim well in excess of 1,300 lives.
The impact of the 8.9-magnitude quake may now

FUKUSHIMA - Survivors of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami huddled in shelters and hoarded supplies on Saturday as rescue workers searched a mangled coastline of submerged homes, cars and stranded boats. Aerial footage showed buildings and trains strewn like children's toys after powerful walls of seawater swamped areas around the city of Sendai, about 130 km from the epicenter of the earthquake and among the worst-hit areas.
"Everything is so hard now," said Kumi

TOKYO - A devastating tsunami triggered by the biggest earthquake on record in Japan killed at least 1,000 people along the northeastern coast on Friday after a wall of water swept away everything in its path.
Thousands of residents were evacuated from an area around a nuclear plant north of Tokyo after fears of a radiation leak, but officials said that problems with the reactor's cooling system were not at a critical level. Underscoring concerns about the plant, the US air force

BEIJING - At least 24 people were killed and 207 others injured in an earthquake that struck a remote area of southwest China near the border with Myanmar on Thursday, a local official said. The tremor reduced hundreds of houses to rubble, left some desperate residents trapped under buildings and triggered power cuts in the surrounding area of China, though no casualties were reported in Myanmar.
The epicentre of the 5.4-magnitude quake, which struck at 12:58pm (0458 GMT), was

SANTIAGO - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake jolted northern Chile on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no reports of any damage and the linchpin copper mining sector was not affected. The quake struck about 67 miles (108 km) northeast of Arica, Chile, at a depth of 55 miles (88 km), it said. It originally reported the quake was magnitude 6.3. "There are no reports of any injuries or damage to infrastructure," a spokesman for state emergency office ONEMI told Reuters.