Chile: Rising from the ashes
The air is thick with the stench of rotten fish in the ruined port of Talcahuano, southern Chile, but people here fear that it may really be the smell of the dead.
Residents think untold numbers of people may have been trapped under rubble or mud when they scrambled for the hills overlooking the port in [...]
While Chile races to deliver aid, Tsunami predictions miscalculated
As a result of the earthquake in Chile that occurred on Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued major tsunami warnings for the first time in 17 years on Sunday morning.
Fortunately, the waves, which had been predicted to reach a height of three meters on the Sanriku coast, were smaller than expected and no casualties [...]
Strong quake hits Japan coast, Tsunami feared
An earthquake has struck off the coast off Japan sparking a tsunami warning.
Japan’s meteorological agency said a 7.0 magnitude quake hit off the country’s southern coast, near to the island of Okinawa.
The quake occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) at 5:31am local time.
The agency predicted a tsunami up to 3 feet [...]
