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Business briefs: March 17, 2011
Sekisui raising funds for earthquake victims Sekisui S-LEC America is having a cookout in front of Walmart from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday to raise money for its Japanese counterparts. The company, based in Japan, reported that one of it plants was...Tags: American Red Cross, Louisville, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Employees
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Shaken Up: Local Japanese keep close eye on home after tsunami, earthquake
Tetsuo Kawanishi woke up about 6 a.m. Friday, as he does every morning, and called home to his family in Japan.
This morning there was no answer, so Kawanishi called again. And again. The result was the same. That’s when he opened his e-mail to...Tags: David Edwards, Elections, Japan, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Skype
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Local Red Cross seeks aid for Japanese
The American Red Cross is soliciting funds to aid victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Japanese officials have characterized the disaster as the worse crisis to face the nation since World War II.
Contributions less than $5,000 may be mailed to...Tags: American Red Cross, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, World War II (1939-1945)
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Centre professor, grads affected by tsunami
msimpson@amnews.comCentre College Japanese instructor Fumie Bouvier called her family in Japan early this morning, after a huge earthquake and resulting tsunami rocked the northern part of the county. “Everything is OK, I think,” she said. “I couldn’...Tags: Facebook, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Arts and Culture, Mass Media
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Are you prepared?
Other than evoking our sympathy and generosity, the earthquake/ tsunami/nuclear disaster in Japan should be pinging our collective consciousness about our own level of preparedness for natural and man-made disasters.
Just to recap, in the last two years...Tags: Weather Warnings, Emergency Planning, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Ohio
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Nicholasville chiropractor returns from second trip to Haiti
jkleppinger@jessaminejournal.comAfter making the trip last year and collecting donations from patients and friends this spring, Nicholasville chiropractor Timothy Sunda returned to the nation of Haiti to help heal backs in the country that was devastated by an earthquake in January...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Haiti, Travel, Health and Medical Professionals, Trips and Vacations
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Waters: Cloud of fear mongering mushrooms after tsunami
“After whatever disaster befalls us, being intelligent humans, we can almost always learn from it and do better in the future,” said physicist Steven C. Barrowes, Ph.D., of Radcliff.
The purveyors of fear among us should heed that advice when...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Diesel Fuel, Disasters, Natural Disasters
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Mind and Body: The New Madrid Earthquake Potential
“There was a great shaking of the earth this morning. Tables and chairs turned over and knocked around – all of us knocked out of bed. The roar I thought would leave us deaf if we lived. . . . when you could hear, all you could hear was...Tags: American Red Cross, Emergency Planning, Louisville, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Social Issues
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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: Natural Disasters, National Weather Service, Tsunamis
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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: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Japan, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Naoto Kan, Shinzo Abe
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4.1 quake strikes near Niland, Calif.
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.A shallow magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported Monday afternoon five miles from Niland, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:04 p.m. PDT at a depth of 1.9 miles. [Updated, 1:13 p.m. PDT June 3: An earlier... -
Santa Barbara earthquake upgraded to magnitude 4.8
The magnitude of Wednesday's earthquake off the Santa Barbara coast has been upgraded to 4.8, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake -- which struck at 7:38 a.m. about five miles west of UC Santa Barbara -- was initially reported at...
Tags: Natural Disasters, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S. Geological Survey, Disneyland Park
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