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Local musician writes song for the victims of Japanese earthquake/tsunami
ReporterAfter seeing the images of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on TV, a musician in Galax was inspired to help. Tremayne Blair is just starting his musical career, but he's already planning to donate some of the money he makes on his first single to the...Tags: Earthquakes, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), American Red Cross, Human Interest, Relief and Aid Organizations
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Virginia relief organizations gear up to help in Japan
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefMany groups in our region are getting resources together to help earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan. Appomattox County-based Gleaning for the World is boxing up medical supplies. Getting those boxes to Japan could take a month, since many ports...Tags: Earthquakes, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Indonesia, American Red Cross, Appomattox County
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Japan earthquake registers locally
The energy from the earthquake in Japan registered in our area.
A seismograph at Washington and Lee University in Lexington picked up the activity.
That is not uncommon.
Seismographs are designed to record waves below the earth, no matter how far...Tags: Earthquakes, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Disasters, Disasters and Accidents
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Japan finds highly toxic strontium in Fukushima groundwater
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - High levels of a toxic substance called strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that runs the facility said on Wednesday. Strontium-90 is a by-product of the...Tags: Earthquakes, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Tokyo (Japan), Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Water
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Light Earthquake Rattles Anchorage & Palmer
Channel 2 NewsAn earthquake occurred around 11:20 p.m. Tuesday near Anchorage. No tsunami danger has been reported. According to the National Weather Service, the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.1 and it was located about 35 miles deep. The earthquake was...Tags: Earthquakes, National Weather Service, Natural Disasters
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Tepco finds highly toxic strontium in Fukushima groundwater
ReutersTOKYO, June 19 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power, the utility that operates the Japanese nuclear plant devastated two years ago by an earthquake and tsunami, said on Wednesday it had found high levels of toxic strontium in groundwater at the plant. The...Tags: Earthquakes, Tokyo (Japan), Environmental Issues, Water, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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Magnitude 6.5 quake strikes in Pacific off Nicaragua; no damage
ReutersMANAGUA (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck on Saturday off the Pacific coast of the central American nation of Nicaragua, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage. "Thank God, so far we haven't heard of...Tags: Earthquakes, Nicaragua, U.S. Geological Survey, Natural Disasters, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Global Voices: Fukushima made ex-premier a 'no nukes' crusader
After the cascade of disasters that befell Japan 27 months ago, then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan took the brunt of withering criticism for shoddy nuclear safety standards at the crippled Fukushima reactor complex and the government’s chaotic...Tags: Earthquakes, Defense Equipment, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Government, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan)
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In Theory: Do we bring tragedy on ourselves?
The recent tornado in Oklahoma that killed 24 people and destroyed or damaged 12,000 homes has stirred up a row on social networking site Twitter. The day after the disaster, popular evangelical speaker and author John Piper tweeted two references to...Tags: Earthquakes, Religious Texts, Religion and Belief, Belief and Faith, Bible
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Father-son writing duo present student contest
Robert Watson, professor of American studies at Lynn University in Boca Raton, got a welcome surprise from his son a couple years ago. "One morning when I was still in bed, my son Alex made me sit upright in amazement when he said, 'I want to write a...Tags: Earthquakes, Teaching and Learning, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Lynn University, Students
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Russia lifts tsunami warning on Russia's Sakhalin, Kurile islands
ReutersMOSCOW, May 24 (Reuters) - Russian emergency authorities lifted a tsunami warning on Friday several minutes after they announced one, following an earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's eastern coast. The main city of Kamchatka is home to a...Tags: Earthquakes, Russia, Natural Disasters
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Magnitude 7.4 quake strikes in sea off Tonga -USGS
ReutersLONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in the sea 177 (285 km) miles southwest of Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Thursday. It said the quake was recorded at a depth of 106 miles and had struck...Tags: Earthquakes, Tonga, U.S. Geological Survey, Natural Disasters
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