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Live Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Coverage
Breaking news: Japan was hit with a devastating 8.9 earthquake and tsunami. You can watch these live video feeds below as the aftermath continues throughout the day:
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New Zealand earthquake rips a new fault line across the world… moving one side of the earth 11ft to the right
Daily Mail
September 5, 2010
New Zealand’s powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted railway lines around Christchurch ripped a new 11ft wide fault line in the earth’s surface, a geologist said today.
Canterbury University geology professor Mark Quigley said what ‘looks to us that it could be a new fault’ had ripped across the earth and pushed some surface areas up.
The quake was caused by the continuing collision between the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates, said Prof Quigley, who is leading a team trying to pin down the temblor’s source.
‘One side of the earth has lurched to the right… up to 11 feet and in some places been thrust up,’ he told National Radio.
‘The long linear fracture on the earth’s surface does things like break apart houses, break apart roads. We went and saw two houses that were completely snapped in half by the earthquake.’
At least 500 buildings, including 90 properties, were designated as destroyed in the 7.1-magnitude quake that struck on Friday near the South Island city of 400,000 people. Most other buildings sustained only minor damage.
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China Aftershocks Kill 80,000, Destroy 420,000 Homes
CBC
May 28, 2008
As the death toll in China continues to soar, the government is warning that rebuilding the earthquake-ravaged central province of Sichuan will be an “arduous” task.
The number of confirmed dead from the massive May 12 quake rose to 68,109 on Wednesday, up 1,000 from the day before, China’s cabinet confirmed. Another 19,851 people are reported missing, and the government says it now fears the final death toll will be more than 80,000.
Survivors are struggling to find shelter. An estimated 15 million people have seen their homes reduced to rubble, or have been forced to abandon their homes due to fears of flooding and aftershocks. Roads and infrastructure are severely damaged.
The government says those trying to rebuild the country face a trying time due to the high level of damage, and the large number of survivors in need of immediate help.
“Due to the immense magnitude of loss resulted from the quake, production recovery and reconstruction of the quake-hit region will be arduous in the near future,” China’s National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement.
As China tries to recover, new threats continually emerge. On Tuesday, two large aftershocks struck the country, causing more than 420,000 houses to collapse in the Qingchuan county of the Sichuan province.
Meanwhile, 158,000 were forced to abandon their homes in dozens of villages downstream from the newly formed Tangjiashan lake. It was created when landslides triggered by the May 12 earthquake sent piles of debris into the Jianhe River, causing it to clog.
More than 1,800 police and soldiers arrived at the site Monday and have been working ever since to pull the debris from the lake, which contains 128 million cubic metres of water and is on the brink of overflowing.
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-5-26/71039.html
China Aftershocks Bring Down 420,000 Houses
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps..id=arv2iNsj3vqI&refer=home
Victims Fighting For Food, Mass Graves For The Dead
http://yournewreality.blogspot.com/2..of-dead-epic-scale-of-destruction.html
China Aftershock Destroys 71,000 Homes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080525..DhZzJV5NnE_Vv9xg8F