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| Peru Hit by Magnitude 6.9 Earthquake, U.S. Agency Says Bloomberg By Alex Emery - Wed Aug 24 21:04:40 GMT 2011 A magnitude-7.0 earthquake rattled most of Peru today without causing any casualties or major damages, companies and government spokesmen said. The quake struck about 354 miles north-northeast of the capital ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Magnitude-5.8 earthquake shakes DC Washington Post The Washington area assesses the damage after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake, centered nine miles south of Mineral, Va., struck the East Coast on Aug. 23 at 1:51 pm, according to the US Geological Survey. Lisa Kinard and her daughter, Theresa ,13, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Quake Sparks Disaster Bets In Entergy Wall Street Journal By CHRIS DIETERICH NEW YORK—One day after Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 earthquake rattled the East Coast, options traders targeted bearish contracts in Entergy Corp., one of the nation's top producers of nuclear energy, piling into contracts that profit ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Eric Cantor: Congress will find the money for earthquake aid CBS News House Majority Leader Eric Cantor assured his constituents on Wednesday that Congress "will find the monies" to assist earthquake victims in Mineral, Virginia - but the Republican lawmaker noted that "those monies will be offset with appropriate ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Earthquake shows gaps in disaster planning Washington Post By Editorial, WE THINK AREA residents deserve something of a pass for our bumbling response to the earthquake Tuesday. Earthquakes rarely occur here, let alone ones that register 5.8 on the Richter scale, so it's no surprise that people didn't respond ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| God's Wrath Caused East Coast Earthquake Huffington Post (blog) I want to beat televangelist Pat Robertson to the jump on today's East Coast earthquake. Robertson is genius at knowing the mind of God when it comes to natural disasters. He blamed the Haiti earthquake on a God-offending "pact with the devil. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Virginia and Others Escape Earthquake Sacramento Bee 24, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- The earthquake that occurred in central Virginia was felt over a broad area on the east coast. The region escaped the earthquake without major damage. Catastrophe models forecast losses associated with the earthquake are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wave of 40000 tweets followed East Coast earthquake Reuters By Molly O'Toole WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just one minute after the 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck in Virginia on Tuesday and shook much of the eastern seaboard, an online aftershock of 40000 tweets hit the internet. Meanwhile, the National Hurricane ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| PennDOT Inspects Bridges after Earthquake WNEP-TV By Renie Workman A day after the earthquake shook and shocked the east coast, PennDOT checked to make sure the quake did not damage any bridges around our area. Inspectors want to make sure the shaking did not leave any cracks or concerns. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| No impact on nuke plant from earthquake, now operators await Irene Asbury Park Press Martin Luther King Jr.- 5:47 am LACEY — With Tuesday's earthquake behind them, operators of the Oyster Creek Generating Station now turn their attention to this weekend's predicted hurricane. Jeff Tittel, the state director of the Sierra Club, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NY slasher attacks after shouting earthquake is end of world Reuters By Ray Sanchez NEW YORK (Reuters) - A naked slasher attacked his neighbors in a New York apartment building, killing one and wounding four others after shouting that the East Coast earthquake marked the end of the world, a victim's family said on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US Capitol Buildings Sustain Visible Damage From Earthquake ABC News (blog) ABC News' Sunlen Miller (@sunlenmiller) Reports: Around the US Capitol complex today there is some visual damage due to Tuesday's 5.8 magnitude earthquake. Much of the damage is on the House of Representatives side –- in the Rayburn office building ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Earthquake aftermath draws mixed reaction from feds GovExec.com By Kellie Lunney klunney@govexec.com August 24, 2011 Federal employees had a range of opinions on whether Washington-area agencies should have evacuated Tuesday after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Virginia about 84 miles from the nation's capital, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Pa. escapes serious damage from earthquake Houston Chronicle Cracks appear on the facade of a building on Market Street in downtown Philadelphia following an earthquake along the East Coast Tuesday Aug. 23, 2011. A 5.9 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia forced evacuations of all the monuments in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Mid-Atlantic Earthquake: A Sign of Things to Come? Probably Not Patch.com So how long can the area expect to feel the after-effects of this unusually strong earthquake? "It depends on the area, what types of rocks are there," said David Brezinski, a geologist at the Maryland Geological Survey. "Normally aftershocks die out ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TVA inspects dams, nuclear plants after Va. earthquake Scottsboro Daily Sentinel It didn't take TVA long to spring into action Tuesday after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake and numerous aftershocks in Mineral, Va. near Richmond. The utility sent crews to 15 of its dams, ash impoundments and six nuclear plants to inspect the facilities ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Earthquake Gives All Sides New Ammo In Spectrum Debate National Journal By Juliana Gruenwald A day after a rare East Coast earthquake jammed wireless networks, stakeholders on all sides of the debate over federal spectrum legislation found lessons to support their view on the issue. Steve Largent, president of the wireless ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| RIM Strikes Back at iPhone, Blackberrys Receive Emails Despite Earthquake Christian Post By Vincent Funaro | Christian Post Contributor This week's earthquake that shook the east coast of the United States may have halted work for some, but during the tremors their Blackberry's could still receive emails, according to Bloomberg Business ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Data Centers Prove Earthquake Proof Seeking Alpha Operations at most data centers in the East Coast of the USA continued smoothly even after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Virginia just before 2 pm. local time yesterday. It appears that staff was evacuated at several locations, but services continued ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mother delivers baby in the middle of earthquake Baltimore Sun I think it's an earthquake!" Anxious thoughts crossed her mind. Like having to evacuate the building and deliver the baby outside. Husband Tom, 39, thought his job during the delivery would be easy. He was prepared to cut the umbilical cord at most. ... See all stories on this topic » |
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