Video captured the moment the 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan.
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Via CNN.com: Tokyo (CNN) — The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan in at least 100 years unleashed walls of water Friday that swept across rice fields, engulfing towns, dragging houses onto highways and tossing cars and boats like toys, apparently killing hundreds and forcing the evacuations of tens of thousands. Prime Minister Naoto Kan […]
From MSNBC LONDON — A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti. “I had thought Landina was dead and when I heard she was alive I was in shock,” the eight-month-old infant’s mother, Marie Miracle Seignon, told Britain’s Channel 4 News. […]
Via The LA Times: A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the Gaithersburg, Maryland, area just after 5 a.m. ET Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The center of the quake was about 20 miles northwest of Washington, the USGS said. The earthquake was the largest in the area since 1974 — and the first registering […]
(By Ivan Watson/CNN) Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) – On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city and large stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated. Six months later, not much appears to have changed. It still looks like a bomb just dropped on this […]
There are varying reports of a 5.7-5.9 earthquake that has just hit the Los Angeles Area. There are reports that the earthquake shook buildings in downtown L.A. http://cdn1.newsone.com/external/js/gallery/583885//
“Dirty Money” girls Dawn and Kalenna recently did a photo shoot in Los Angeles with Miami-based Haitian model Marvin Benaime. According to reports, Marvin survived the massive earthquake that struck Southern Haiti on January 12. He was trapped under the heavy rubble’s with no food to eat or water to drink for nearly four days […]
VIA CNN.com: Nearly 400 people are feared dead after a rapid series of strong earthquakes hit a mountainous and impoverished area of China’s Qinghai province early Wednesday, state-run media said. At least 10,000 others were injured, the Xinhua news agency reported, and many victims, including school children, were buried under debris. Rescuers were struggling to […]
VIA CNN: Mexican authorities dispatched engineers to check damaged houses and buildings Monday in Baja California state following a major earthquake Sunday that left two people dead. The Federal Electricity Commission was also working to restore power in the city of Mexicali, state-run news agency Notimex reported. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck northwest Baja California Sunday, […]
// // // STORY HIGHLIGHTS Via CNN: NEW: First hit at 11:39 a.m. local time; second 16 minutes later; third 27 minutes later First shook the ground near Chilean coast; epicenter about 71 miles from Valparaiso New president, Sebastian Pinera, set to be inaugurated in Valparaiso as quake struck Television footage showed inauguration proceeding Santiago, […]
