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Matt Podbury

Evaluating Vulnerability in the 2011 Japan Earthquake and the 2010 ... - 3 views

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    Evaluating Vulnerability in the 2011 Japan Earthquake and the 2010 Haiti Earthquak
Matt Podbury

BBC News - Lorca earthquake 'caused by groundwater extraction' - 1 views

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    Lorca earthquake 'caused by groundwater extraction' - Interesting case study that potentially implicates human activity as a reason for the 2011 Spanish earthquake. 
Richard Allaway

Earthquake hits California and Costa Rica - Telegraph - 0 views

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    An earthquake has hit Los Angeles and Costa Rica leaving at least three people dead.
Matt Podbury

Adjustments and Responses to Japan Earthquake - 2 views

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    Adjustments and Responses to Japan Earthquake
Matt Podbury

Haiti earthquake - Adjustments and Responses (Correct Ver) - 2 views

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    Haiti earthquake - Adjustments and Responses
Richard Allaway

2010 Haiti earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The neighbouring Dominican Republic was the first country to give aid to Haiti,[105] sending water, food and heavy-lifting machinery
  • The first team to arrive in Port-au-Prince was ICE-SAR from Iceland, landing within 24 hours of the earthquake
  • A rescue team sent by the Israel Defense Forces' Home Front Command established a field hospital which included specialised facilities to treat children, the elderly, and women in labour near the United Nations building in Port-au-Prince. It was set up in eight hours and began operations on the evening of 16 January
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  • The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated, allowing satellite imagery of affected regions to be shared with rescue and aid organisations
  • Rescue efforts began in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, with able-bodied survivors extricating the living and the dead from the rubble of the many buildings which had collapsed
  • treatment of the injured was hampered by the lack of hospital and morgue facilities
  • The supercarrier USS Carl Vinson arrived at maximum possible speed on 15 January with 600,000 emergency food rations, 100,000 ten-litre water containers, and an enhanced wing of 19 helicopters; 130,000 litres of drinking water were transferred to shore on the first day
  • The buoy tender USCG Oak and USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) were on scene by 18 January to assess damage to the port and work to reopen it,[182][183] and by 21 January one pier at the Port-au-Prince seaport was functional, offloading humanitarian aid, and a road had been repaired to make transport into the city easie
  • The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander called the result of the earthquake an "almost unprecedented level of devastation", and committed the UK to ₤20 million (US$32.7 million) in aid
  • Italy announced it would waive repayment of the €40 million (US$55.7 million) it had loaned to Haiti,[142] and the World Bank waived the country's debt repayments for five years
Richard Allaway

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake Facts and Statistics Graphs - 0 views

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    Earthquake frequency graphs
Richard Allaway

Magnitude 8 and Greater Earthquakes Since 1900 - 0 views

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    Magnitude 8 and Greater Earthquakes Since 1900
Richard Allaway

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake Facts and Statistics - 0 views

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    Earthquake frequency data
Matt Podbury

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Earthquakes weaken distant faults - 0 views

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    Earthquake fault weakening.
Richard Allaway

Ben Goldacre: Predictions are fine, but there are better ways to protect a population |... - 0 views

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    Last year's earthquake in Abruzzo in Italy shows it is impossible to predict certain tragedies - but that hasn't stopped the seismologists being blamed
Rob Micallef

Technology Review: China Lacks Earthquake Early-Warning System - 0 views

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    The death of thousands of people following Monday's earthquake in Sichuan, China, has once again called attention to the need for technology that provides better warning of such devastating natural events.
Matt Podbury

Earthquake in Chile - The Big Picture - Boston.com - 0 views

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    Remarkable Earthquake Images
anonymous

USGS audio file how to predict earthquakes - 0 views

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    USGS audio file: Interview with Geologist about earthquake prediction
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