Word: temblor
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Peru is located in a geologically unstable zone, noted for earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. This temblor was caused by the Nazca Plate, located under the Pacific Ocean, sliding under the continental South American Plate. A similar earthquake, with a 7.5-magnitude, struck the same area...
...death toll from the temblor, which shook Niigata, Nagano and Toyama prefectures, was nine as of Tuesday, with one person reportedly still missing. That's far less than a 2004 quake that struck the same area and killed more than 60 while leaving 16,000 homeless. But instead of feeling relief, the entire country has been rattled by TV images of black smoke billowing from Niigata's Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, located just 9km (5.6 miles) from the epicenter in the Sea of Japan. The plant suffered a string of problems when the temblor struck. Tokyo Electric, the Kashiwazaki...
...While the cables are at least 20 km apart, the magnitude 6.7 quake was powerful enough to shake or rupture a 300-km-long area of seabed. Given this temblor's force, says Ha Yung-kuen, acting director-general of Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), "you can [imagine] the damage it would make to submarine cables. Maybe mountains become valleys, and valleys become mountains...
Living small is hardly a new concept. Henry Thoreau tucked himself into a 150-sq.-ft. house on Walden Pond in the 1840s, and the city of San Francisco built some 5,600 earthquake cottages for survivors of the 1906 temblor. But over the past decade, dozens of architects and builders have begun specializing in tiny-house designs. And home buyers--motivated by the desire to simplify their lives, use fewer resources and save money--are falling in love with the little things. Gregory Johnson, a co-founder of the Small House Society in Iowa City, Iowa, estimates that anywhere...
...Just 17 minutes after the earthquake struck off the coast of Java, scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii crunched the seismological data and sent a bulletin to colleagues in Jakarta, warning of the possibility of a local tsunami for land within 100 km of the temblor's epicenter. In the 2004 tsunami, those simple lines of communication did not exist. But that's the easy part. "The initial system did work," says Bernal. "From then on, it is the responsibility of the Indonesian system...