Large earthquake mag. 6.1 (Japanese Scale) off coast of Sanriku Oki Japan. depth 10km. No Tsunami warning.08:17am No reported damage/injury.
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Powerful Earthquake
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Japanese team builds temporary paper school buildings for earthquake victims
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This May, a massive earthquake rocked Sichuan Province in China. Reaching a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale, it claimed the lives of 400,000 people. Half a year later, though the destruction seems to have lost its newsworthiness, the reconstruction is still very much a reality. However, it doesn’t have to be hopeless! How about a temporary shelter made of paper?
Read more »Toilet shortage feared in case of big Tokyo quake
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Japan's disaster prevention panel says hundreds of thousands of people will be unable to find a toilet if a major earthquake hits Tokyo on a weekday.
The report said 810,000 people will be desperately looking for a toilet within hours of the quake, even if half of the public facilities remained intact. Some might have to wait for 17 hours before finding a toilet.
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Studying Japan's Dark Decade
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When somebody tells you, "Here's an interesting story," you can generally assume that it's not a very interesting story. Otherwise, why buttress the telling with a preface?
Anyway. Here's an interesting story:
Once upon a time I walked down the road and...
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Dr. Catfish Says: Get Ready For Earthquakes
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remoras pay great attention to Catfish - they are extremely sensitive to the Earths Crust
Read more »Osaka not long for this world?
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The Central Disaster Management Council says that changes in the earth's crust caused by a major fault-zone motion could cause coastal land along a fault zone in Osaka to sink.
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