seismic

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Japan has the most sophisticated earthquake detection network in the world — a system of 4,235 seismometers can detect the very first waves from a quake, before estimating its focus, magnitude and seismic intensity. Phone alerts are then sent out, giving people precious seconds to prepare...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at Fukushima Dai-ichi were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago. In the Dec. 19, 2001 document — one double-sized page obtained by The...

TO CALL it a hot ticket might, in the circumstances, seem a tad tasteless. But no session at this year’s International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, held in the south of France, was as well attended as the late-running special plenary hastily arranged to provide an update on...

TOKYO--If there's one sound you don't want to hear in Tokyo these days, it's the earthquake alarm. The two jarring chords came crashing through the cherry blossoms from a public-address speaker the other morning and sent me bounding into the street in my pajamas. The room started wobbling...

A magnitude-6.6 earthquake hit Japan about 35 miles from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s stricken nuclear power plant, shaking buildings in the capital city and causing fires to break out in the northeast of the country. The quake struck at 5:16 p.m. local time 38 kilometers (24 miles) west of...

Link Removed Earthquake in Japan, which became one of the most powerful in the history of the country, according to preliminary calculations, the reduced terrestrial days 1,6 microseconds. On it informs RIA Novosti news agency referring to the specialist's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

A German geoscience centre has produced an animation of the flash of earthquakes that have affected Japan in the last eight days. It's available here Link Removed

Thousands of people are still missing and fires are burning out of control due to gas explosions . Hole observed in reactor 2 following fresh blast . People within 20 KMS told to stay indoors . Melt down now seems to be imminent ! Blast at reactor 4

TOKYO – Japan was struck by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that washed away cars and tore away buildings along the coast near the epicenter. There were reports of injuries in Tokyo. Link Removed due to 404 Error In...