je.st

Home › quake

Tag: quake

Netherlands: Parts of Low Country Are Now Quake Country

2013-03-26 18:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Jannes Kadyks modest brick home suffered more than $5,000 in damage. Bert de Jongs more stately home will need about $500,000 to get back into shape. Both houses, like thousands of others, were damaged during recent earthquakes that have shaken the flat farmland in this area dotted with villages and tucked up against the North Sea. The quakes were caused by the extraction of natural gas from the soil deep below. The gas was discovered in the 1950s, and extraction began in the 1960s, but only...

Tags: low country parts netherlands

Oklahoma Quake Tied to Wastewater Shows Oil Boom Impact

2013-03-26 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: A 2011 Oklahoma earthquake has been tied by researchers to the disposal of wastewater from oil production, the latest study suggesting the energy boom from advances such as fracking is increasing temblors. A series of quakes in November 2011 followed an 11-fold bump in seismic activity across the central U.S., as disposal wells are created to handle the increase in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and gas, geologists at the University of Oklahoma, Columbia University and the U.S. Geological...

Tags: shows impact oil oklahoma

KPTV: Portland couple retrofitting home for quake safety

2013-03-13 14:59:29| PortlandOnline

News story posted on KPTV.com March 12, 2013.

Tags: home safety couple portland

Japan Still Suffers Quake, Tsunami Effects Two Years Later

2013-03-12 07:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: People across Japan today marked the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Honshu island on March 11, 2011 with memorial ceremonies, speeches and promises. More than 300,000 people are still in temporary housing and nearly all the country`s nuclear power plants are closed. The Emperor and Empress and about 1,200 people took part in the government-sponsored memorial in Tokyo with representatives of people who lost family members from the hardest hit prefectures...

Tags: years japan effects quake