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Hawaiians seek higher ground, tsunami warning reaches to 53 countries

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Spokesman for the Honolulu Department of Emergency Management John M. Cummings III cautioned Hawaiians that the tsunami warning in the wake of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunamis in Japan is “very, very serious” and warned that people located “in the shoreline areas” need to “get out now.” Tsunami warnings have been sounding since 10 [...]

Report: 200 to 300 bodies discovered on beach in Sendai, Japan

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Details are scant right now, but it appears the death toll from the earlier devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in Japan has risen sharply with the discovery of 200 to 300 bodies on a beach in Sendai. Prior to the reported discovery reported by police, death tolls officially hovered in the 50-60 range, [...]

Devastation In Japan

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Post the 8.9 earth quake in Japan, reports coming in suggest that there is serious amount of damage across multiple islands. From what we know at this point is that there has been a serious inundation across north Hokkaido, including serious damage to farm land north of Tokyo. As I write this post there is [...]

Google launches people finder following Japanese 8.9 earthquake

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Following the massive 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan tsunami warnings were issued for over twenty countries and the death toll began to be counted as people in the affected areas of the earthquake began searching for loved ones. As they did following the earthquake in New Zealand Google had its finder application up and running [...]

Japanese 8.9 Earthquake Video Roundup

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I was just getting ready to hit the sack last night when the news of the devastating 8.9 earthquake hitting Japan flashed across my Twitter stream with links to video being caught by people in the affected area, as well as the professional television news services in Japan. That has to be one of the [...]

Japan Earthquake Brings Tsunami Waves To U.S. Beaches

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The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on Thursday night has brought mini tsunami sized waves to the US mainland and Hawaii. According to reports, waves began to surge slightly along the northern coast of California and before the day is over could reach as high as seven feet. Also experiencing higher than normal water levels [...]

US Navy Ready To Assist With Japan Earthquake Recovery Efforts

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As a key base region for the US Navy there are currently approximately 38,000 US Troops stationed in the region alongside 43,000 US family members and almost 3,000 Department of Defense civilians, so it would make perfect sense that the US Navy is ready and willing to assist in whatever way possible with Japan Earthquake [...]

Japanese earthquake brings out a stupid ‘supermoon’ theory

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It never fails, a catastrophe happens and the brain-dead loopy as wet noodles contingent comes out from the woodwork. There is a theory going around that the 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 is the result of a ‘supermoon’, which apparently refers to the coming moon’s perigee, or when the moon reaches its [...]

Skyscrapers sway as the ground shakes from the Japanese 8.9 earthquake [Video]

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As people grabbed for anything solid during the 8.9 earthquake that shook Japan on March 11, 2011 the ground wasn’t the only thing moving as you can see in the video below. Japan has spent more money than any other country in the world on building safety for times just like this and we can [...]

Japan’s earthquake causes earth’s axis and Japan’s coast to shift

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It was a massive earthquake with some suggesting that they might have to revise the power of the quake upward from8.9 to 9.1. In fact the earthquake was so powerful that it caused some pretty major geological changes. Scientists from the United States Geological Service (USGS) shared some startling information while answering questions from the [...]

Japan Earthquake Brings Country To A Standstill, Cripples Rail System

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For all it’s super-modern architecture and technology even Japan couldn’t help but come to a standstill on Friday after the country was hit by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake that later led to a Tsunami. The country has been experiencing mobile phone and power outages, while millions of commuters have become stranded as roadways, airlines and [...]

Death toll at 15 after NYC casino bus crash

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At least fifteen people have died and several more are injured following a horrific bus crash on the New England Thruway south in the Bronx. Passengers in the bus were being transported back from the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Connecticut. The bus driver, who survived the accident, said a tractor trailer “clipped” the bus, [...]

Incredible side-by-side before and after satellite photos of devastated Japan

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Using satellite images of before and after the earthquake that struck Japan the Australian news site ABC News has some pretty incredible examples of how destructive the 8.9 earthquake was that hit Japan. These are just a few of the images but if you head over to the ABC News site you can manipulate the [...]

Popular Lean Cuisine spaghetti variety recalled for plastic bits

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Nestle is recalling all remaining stock of a lot of Lean Cuisine’s Simple Favorites Spaghetti with Meatballs variety after customer complaints led to the discovery of red plastic bits in the meatball portion of the product. The affected dinners all seem to have been produced during a one-hour period this past October. Nestle says that [...]

New York Times Journalists Missing In Libya Since Tuesday

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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for foreign reporting Anthony Shadid, reporter and videographer Stephen Farrell and photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario have all been missing in Libya since Tuesday according to a story filed on the New York Times’ blog Media Decoder. The Times reporters were all in Libya to cover the countries escalating conflicts [...]

Japanese Workers Fix Earthquake Demolished Road In Days [Pic]

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In the United States and many other parts of the world, simply adding a road can take months of planning, following by city council meetings, various construction bids and tons of other bureaucratic red tape to cut through. In Japan, after an earthquake destroys an already existing road they simply move in, tear up the [...]

Paywall Time: ‘The Daily’ To Erect iPad Payment System Next Week

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The Daily was the first Apple App to offer in-app subscriptions, however iOS 4.3 just has arrived and following up on their promise the company is instituting a paywall with the release of that OS version. The company decided to give users one extra free week of use but have begun reminding those customers that [...]

Donations To Japan Roll In From U.S But Less Than Haiti, Katrina

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Japan could be footing more of their own clean up bill and other recovery efforts simply because many people in the United States believe that a developed, high-tech country like Japan can afford to pay for their own cleanup. The American Red Cross announced on Wednesday that they had raised $47 million, while at the [...]

Triumph for consistency: AP updates Stylebook to allow “email” unhyphenated

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A year after announcing the that the more commonly used “website” could replace the stuffier “Web site” per their widely adopted guidelines, the Associated Press has now updated the AP Stylebook to allow “email” to replace the rather AOL-ish “e-mail” originally used. AP style is a bit of a mild stressor for bloggers, because despite [...]

‘Dougherty Gang’ Captured in Colorado Following High-Speed Car Chase

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All three members of the devilish “Dougherty Gang” have been captured south of Pueblo, Colorado, following a 20-mile, 100mph car chase that ended in a crash, according to police and the FBI. The alleged gang – consisting of stripper Lee Grace Dougherty, 29, and her brothers, Ryan, 21, and half-brother Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26 – [...]

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