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When an earthquake hits, up to 8 percent of a city's population can suffer fatal injuries, a new report suggests. That's because the mass casualties, lacerations, broken bones and crushing injuries associated with these natural disasters occur when bridges and roads may be impassable and local and regional emergency medical care is disrupted.

As of 1:29 this afternoon (Philippine Time), the Philippines was rocked by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake. The epicenter of the quake was traced on Lubang

Research firm comScore has released information today on the different ways that people in Japan kept themselves informed after the Japan earthquake and tsunami.

Nearly one month to the day after Japan's tragic March 11th earthquake, the twitter-sourced Quakebook is on sale today!

NTT Docomo recently announced a research project that would see it track the collective movements of mobile phone users in Tokyo, aggregating spatial data that could be used for a number of purposes. This mobile spatial statistics endeavor focuses on two pretty fascinating projects