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...visa ban has certainly thrown investments in Libya's booming oil industry into question. When TIME visited Libya's major natural gas facility on Tuesday - it pipes gas to Italy under the Mediterranean - the company's Italian general manager, from the Italian energy company ENI, was not there. He was stuck in Europe, with no visa to return...
Hawaii, which sits squarely in the middle of the potential tsunami's path, also has a sophisticated warning protocol that should get people off the shore in time. By contrast, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, the areas hardest hit by the 2004 tsunami, had virtually no alert system...
...Libyan officials say the visa ban could last some time, in part because many applaud Gaddafi for his stand against Switzerland. "How could the Swiss put 188 names on this list [of Libyans banned from the country] including the Leader of the Revolution?" asks Abdul Majeed el-Dursi, director of the government's press office for foreign journalists. "This is something which is done to criminals. I think it will continue until they [Switzerland] comes to their senses...
...roughly the speed of a passenger jet, but because of the vast distance they are traveling across the Pacific from Chile's coast, vulnerable islands hours to prepare. That wasn't the case during the 2004 tsunami, which rippled across the much smaller Indian Ocean basin before there was time to raise a proper warning...
...seismological disaster. But the two quakes are unrelated, occurring on different faults. The reality is that Chileans live in one of the most seismically dangerous regions in the world, and an earthquake as powerful as the one that hit this morning was just a matter of time. The question is how Chileans - and the rest of the world - can better prepare for geological calamity...