WASHINGTON — A billionaire history buff has stepped forward to donate the $7.5 million matching gift that’s needed to start repairing cracks near the top of the Washington Monumentfrom last summer’s East Coast earthquake. (more)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – A magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and sparking widespread panic as it collapsed dozens of buildings into piles of twisted steel and chunks of concrete. (more)
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the Vancouver Island region of Canada today. (more)
Last week’s central Virginia earthquake caused 25 spent-fuel storage casks — each weighing 115 tons — to move on their concrete pad at Dominion Virginia Power’s North Anna nuclear power plant. (more)
ALTAMONT, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the inspection of a hydro-power dam west of Albany after a mild earthquake. (more)
(AP) Cleveland Indians fans wondered if a special effects explosion had gone off at a nearby movie shoot. Spectators at a tennis tournament in Connecticut felt as though a truck had smashed into the stadium. Golfer Brendan Steele thought he was getting shaky over his putts. (more)
No major structural damage has been reported at Washington D.C. monuments, the U.S. Park Police said shortly after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocked the eastern seaboard. (more)
The 5.9 magnitude earthquake that rattled the East Coast Tuesday had more than just buildings shook up. Here are some celebrity Twitter responses to the startling event: (more)
A nuclear power plant in central Virginia has lost offsite power in the wake of a 5.9 earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va., U.S. nuclear officials said. (more)
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake just shook Washington, Virginia, Boston, Detroit, and New York, stunning the unprepared folks on the East Coast. (more)
Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) — A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Richmond, Virginia, rocking buildings from Washington to Boston and causing office workers in New York City to rush into the street. (more)
CLEVELAND (AP) — Shock waves from an earthquake on the East Coast made the press box sway slightly and sent some fans toward the exits during the first game of a doubleheader between the Indians and Seattle Mariners. (more)
Spain’s biggest earthquake in 57 years damaged a town and killed eight people, a day before European officials decide on safety checks for atomic plants in response to Japan’s quake-related nuclear disaster. (more)
Italians will on Wednesday flee Rome over fears a giant earthquake is coming following a seismologist’s 1915 prediction that “the big one” will strike on May 11, 2011. (more)
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s prime minister is urging the public not to panic after the government boosted the severity level of the crisis at a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant to the highest rating — on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. (more)
Japan was rattled by a strong aftershock and tsunami warning Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast. (more)
In Japan they have a phrase: Yamato gokoro (大和心). It’s three Japanese ideograms sometimes translated as “Japanese spirit.” The last character, 心 — pronounced “kokoro” when standing alone — is usually translated as “heart,” but the character is a picture of not just the heart, but the heart, the lungs, and the liver — “innards,” or better yet, “guts.” (more)
The Biggest Crock is Yet to Come! You mean that Newsweek cover story by Simon Winchester on “The Scary Tsunamis Yet to Come“- you know, the one that convinced you maybe there was hope for Tina Brown’s magazine yet, because it was at least reacting to something that happened in the last month, but that turned out to be an awfully thin two-pager with only one interesting point, that the earthquake on one side of the Pacific tectonic plate in Japan could trigger a quake on “the plate’s far side,” in California–was a crock? Apparently. From LiveScience.com: (more)
CNN alone will have a team of roughly 400 reporters, cameramen and crew assigned to the wedding. The network has 50 people on the ground working on the breaking news in Japan, plus others scattered in Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Ten cameras will be stationed around Buckingham Palace to capture the day's money shot—the royal family assembling on the balcony as Prince William and his bride share a kiss. (more)
