November 29, 2011
The Song Tranh 2 hydropower dam is suspected to have triggered off some minor earthquakes in Quang Nam Province. (Photo: Tuoi Tre newspaper) A minor earthquake, the third in a month, shook the central province of Quang Nam Sunday night, local authorities said. Dang Phong, chairman of the Bac Tra My District People’s Committee, told [...]
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November 21, 2011
Song Tranh 2 hydropower dam in central Vietnam A small earthquake with underground explosion sounds in central Vietnam on Wednesday night might have been caused by a local hydropower dam, an expert says. Â The earthquake was recorded in Quang Nam Province at a magnitude of lower than 3.5 on the Richter scale. Â Dr [...]
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August 23, 2011
Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech before survivors of the earthquake and tsunami during his visit at Sendai airport in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, August 23, 2011. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Japan’s quake-hit northeast on Tuesday and said the country would recover from the disaster just as the United States would overcome its [...]
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March 26, 2011
 Morning commuters wait in line for a bus outside an East Japan Railways Co. train station after Tokyo Electric Co. announced the power outages in Urayasu city, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011 As the horrific power of nature’s shock and awe operation was unleashed on Japan last week, captured graphically by amateur [...]
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March 19, 2011
A toy lies in front of a destroyed house in the devastated city of Ofunato. Rescue teams from the US, Britain and China began assisting in the search for survivors following the devasting earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11. Workers were ordered to withdraw from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after [...]
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March 14, 2011
An "SOS" signal is written on the sports field of a high school after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami struck the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, 2011 A hydrogen explosion rocked the earthquake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan where authorities have been working desperately to avert a meltdown, compounding a [...]
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March 13, 2011
Evacuees hold blankets as they stand in a line to enter a temporary shelter after radiation leaked from an earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor, in Koriyama, northeastern Japan March 12, 2011 Japan faced a fresh radiation threat at an earthquake-crippled nuclear plant on Sunday after the cooling system failed at a second reactor in what could [...]
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March 13, 2011
A woman cries after learning that her mother was successfully rescued from a building following an earthquake and tsunami in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan March 12, 2011 Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a massive earthquake, but the government insisted [...]
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March 12, 2011
A tsunami wave engulfs a residential area after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on March 11 Japan was struck by its strongest earthquake on record, an 8.9-magnitude temblor that shook buildings across Tokyo and unleashed a seven-meter-high tsunami that killed hundreds as it engulfed towns on the northern coast. As many as [...]
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November 27, 2009
An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale hit the northern mountainous province of Son La Province yesterday afternoon with aftershocks felt in Ha Noi. The earthquake’s epicentre is located 38km from Son La City and about 37km southeast of the Son La Hydropower Plant construction site. (Photo: VOV)According to the Centre for Tsunamis and [...]
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