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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2076 science Earthquakes & Volcanoes en-us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:59:16 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2076 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_re_us/us_border_earthquakes ap/20091125/us_border_earthquakes AP us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:59:16 GMT AP - Earthquakes continue to rattle the California-Mexico border, but there are no reports of damage or injuries. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_asia_afp/quaketonga afp/20091124/quaketonga AFP world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:59:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_asia_afp/quaketonga"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259074759184-2-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=GKh28tEEzJGPVRoI8FmdxQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="A map locating the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Tonga. The strong quake rattled the Pacific island nation but the US Geological Survey said there was no threat of a widespread destructive tsunami.(AFP/Graphic)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 hit off the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091124/wl_asia_afp/quaketonga"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091124/capt.photo_1259074759184-2-0.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=GKh28tEEzJGPVRoI8FmdxQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="A map locating the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Tonga. The strong quake rattled the Pacific island nation but the US Geological Survey said there was no threat of a widespread destructive tsunami.(AFP/Graphic)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_as/as_tonga_quake ap/20091124/as_tonga_quake AP world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:02:06 GMT AP - A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Tonga, sending panicked residents into the streets at night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091124/wl_nm/us_quake_tonga nm/20091124/us_quake_tonga Reuters world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:48:22 GMT Reuters - A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck northeast of the South Pacific island nation of Tonga on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey said, but a destructive tsunami was not expected. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_as/as_china_dissident ap/20091124/as_china_dissident AP world Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:34:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_as/as_china_dissident"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091123/capt.0eb3484577d1453981d856ffc7f26cd1.china_dissident_xay101.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=h7kysFi7flFPJnfMavhxjg--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="FILE - In this April 5, 2000 file photo, Chinese computer engineer Huang Qi poses for photo in his office in Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province. A Chinese court handed down a three-year sentence in prison to the veteran dissident accused of spying, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A veteran dissident was sentenced to three years in prison after casting a spotlight on poorly built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children during China's massive earthquake last year &mdash; an apparent government attempt to squelch such information.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_re_as/as_china_dissident"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091123/capt.0eb3484577d1453981d856ffc7f26cd1.china_dissident_xay101.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=h7kysFi7flFPJnfMavhxjg--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this April 5, 2000 file photo, Chinese computer engineer Huang Qi poses for photo in his office in Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province. A Chinese court handed down a three-year sentence in prison to the veteran dissident accused of spying, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091123/wl_asia_afp/chinarightsdissidentquake afp/20091123/chinarightsdissidentquake AFP world Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:00:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091123/wl_asia_afp/chinarightsdissidentquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091123/capt.photo_1258962158079-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=136qLD96fGAVUJR.olRpkQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Parents hold the portraits of their dead children who were killed in the earthquake on May 12, 2008, at an elementary school in Wufu town of Mianzhu county, in Sichuan, May 2008. A Chinese dissident who campaigned for the parents of children killed in last year's Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in jail on a state secrets charge, his wife said.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A Chinese dissident who campaigned for the parents of children killed in last year's Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in jail on a state secrets charge, his wife said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091123/wl_asia_afp/chinarightsdissidentquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091123/capt.photo_1258962158079-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=136qLD96fGAVUJR.olRpkQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Parents hold the portraits of their dead children who were killed in the earthquake on May 12, 2008, at an elementary school in Wufu town of Mianzhu county, in Sichuan, May 2008. A Chinese dissident who campaigned for the parents of children killed in last year's Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in jail on a state secrets charge, his wife said.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091123/wl_nm/us_china_dissident nm/20091123/us_china_dissident Reuters world Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:18:19 GMT Reuters - A Chinese dissident who tried to help victims of last year's Sichuan earthquake was jailed for three years on Monday on charges of illegally possessing state secrets, his wife said, decrying the sentence as "revenge." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_us/us_socal_earthquakes ap/20091122/us_socal_earthquakes AP us Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:53:44 GMT AP - A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_us/us_fea_food_fatty_popcorn ap/20091119/us_fea_food_fatty_popcorn AP us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:45:26 GMT AP - Forget the apocalyptic earthquakes and alien abductions on the screen, the real movie horror is the fat-saturated popcorn sold by some theater chains, a nutrition advocacy group claims. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_afp/japannuclearfire afp/20091119/japannuclearfire AFP science Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:30:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_afp/japannuclearfire"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258630132504-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=bf2IJfuN0HQvwMBNaIJr0w--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="View of Tokyo Electric Power's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata prefecture. Smoke rose from the world's largest nuclear power plant in Japan, which was shut down by an earthquake two years ago, but the operator said no-one was injured and there was no radiation leak.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Smoke rose on Thursday from the world's largest nuclear power plant in Japan, which was shut down by an earthquake two years ago, but the operator said no-one was injured and there was no radiation leak.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/wl_afp/japannuclearfire"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258630132504-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=bf2IJfuN0HQvwMBNaIJr0w--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="View of Tokyo Electric Power's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata prefecture. Smoke rose from the world's largest nuclear power plant in Japan, which was shut down by an earthquake two years ago, but the operator said no-one was injured and there was no radiation leak.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_quake_canada nm/20091117/canada_us_quake_canada Reuters world Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:23:25 GMT Reuters - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake rattled residents on the west coast of Canada on Tuesday, but did not cause damage or trigger a tsunami, U.S. and Canadian officials said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091117/wl_canada_afp/canadaquake afp/20091117/canadaquake AFP world Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:37:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091117/wl_canada_afp/canadaquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091117/capt.photo_1258476042741-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VY5zHgM3JO8Bf4oX1srhhQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A quake reading on a seismograph. A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday off Canada's Pacific coast in the remote Queen Charlotte Islands region, experts from the US Geological Survey said, but no casualties were reported.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday off Canada's Pacific coast in the remote Queen Charlotte Islands region, experts from the US Geological Survey said, but no casualties were reported.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091117/wl_canada_afp/canadaquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091117/capt.photo_1258476042741-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=VY5zHgM3JO8Bf4oX1srhhQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A quake reading on a seismograph. A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday off Canada's Pacific coast in the remote Queen Charlotte Islands region, experts from the US Geological Survey said, but no casualties were reported.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_ca/cn_canada_earthquake ap/20091117/cn_canada_earthquake AP world Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:13:02 GMT AP - Seismologists say a earthquake struck off Canada's pacific coast province of British Columbia. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091117/wl_nm/us_quake_canada nm/20091117/us_quake_canada Reuters world Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:52:08 GMT Reuters - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the Queen Charlotte Islands region off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, on Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. local time (1530 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey reported. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/ap_on_re_us/us_california_quakes ap/20091116/us_california_quakes AP us Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:51:45 GMT AP - The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-4.6 earthquake has shaken a remote area of the Mojave Desert in Southern California. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091115/wl_afp/taiwanearthquakescience afp/20091115/taiwanearthquakescience AFP world Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:15:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091115/wl_afp/taiwanearthquakescience"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091115/capt.photo_1258268125147-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=BFEhbRh1AwBTIzt.XvoWbg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="This file photo shows Wu Chang Gong temple in Taiwan which was partially levelled by a powerful earthquake ten years ago. Taiwan plans to build its first undersea seismic station, designed to improve the island's early warning system and save valuable seconds when earthquakes strike, according to officials.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Taiwan plans to build its first undersea seismic station, designed to improve the island's early warning system and save valuable seconds when earthquakes strike, officials said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091115/wl_afp/taiwanearthquakescience"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091115/capt.photo_1258268125147-1-0.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=BFEhbRh1AwBTIzt.XvoWbg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="This file photo shows Wu Chang Gong temple in Taiwan which was partially levelled by a powerful earthquake ten years ago. Taiwan plans to build its first undersea seismic station, designed to improve the island's early warning system and save valuable seconds when earthquakes strike, according to officials.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091114/sc_afp/sciencequaketurkeyfrance afp/20091114/sciencequaketurkeyfrance AFP science Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:41:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091114/sc_afp/sciencequaketurkeyfrance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091114/capt.photo_1258223529827-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=jGJ1slKcMJ2qI4cP.o3F2Q--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) team prepares to put in water the robot BOB (Bubbles OBservatory module) to observe and study the link between gas bubble expulsion and earthquakes along the North-Anatolian fault in the Marmara sea, south of Istanbul in November 7. The robot may hold the key to protect people against earthquakes.(AFP/File/Michel Sailhan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A state-of-the-art underwater robot called BOB may hold the key to protecting millions of people around Turkey's biggest city against a massive earthquake scientists say is all but inevitable.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091114/sc_afp/sciencequaketurkeyfrance"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091114/capt.photo_1258223529827-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=jGJ1slKcMJ2qI4cP.o3F2Q--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) team prepares to put in water the robot BOB (Bubbles OBservatory module) to observe and study the link between gas bubble expulsion and earthquakes along the North-Anatolian fault in the Marmara sea, south of Istanbul in November 7. The robot may hold the key to protect people against earthquakes.(AFP/File/Michel Sailhan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_earthquake ap/20091113/lt_chile_earthquake AP world Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:19:22 GMT AP - A strong earthquake struck northern Chile early Friday, briefly knocking out power to a city but otherwise causing no major damages, authorities said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091109/wl_asia_afp/quakefiji afp/20091109/quakefiji AFP world Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:13:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091109/wl_asia_afp/quakefiji"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091109/capt.photo_1257712282512-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=.pl4LG.Z36HJ3QK4IJxS_w--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="Seismograph readings. A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 hit off the Pacific island nation of Fiji but it was too deep to generate a destructive tsunami, US geologists have said.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 hit off the Pacific island nation of Fiji late Monday but it was too deep to generate a destructive tsunami, US geologists said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091109/wl_asia_afp/quakefiji"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091109/capt.photo_1257712282512-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=99&q=85&sig=.pl4LG.Z36HJ3QK4IJxS_w--" align="left" height="99" width="130" alt="photo" title="Seismograph readings. A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 hit off the Pacific island nation of Fiji but it was too deep to generate a destructive tsunami, US geologists have said.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_earthquake ap/20091109/as_indonesia_earthquake AP world Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:26:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091109/capt.a06e41088078434481b4d750ef5c3329.indonesia_landslides_jak102.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=LZULDL_qapO6rmuUa3yptA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Residents remove ruins from houses damaged by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake in the town of Bima, on Indonesia's Sumbawa island, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. The strong undersea earthquake killed at least two people, while injuring dozens and damaged buildings on the remote island in central Indonesia, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Tangguh Afgani)" border="0" /></a>AP - A powerful undersea earthquake killed one person, injured dozens and damaged hundreds of houses on a remote island in central Indonesia, officials said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/earthquakes/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091109/capt.a06e41088078434481b4d750ef5c3329.indonesia_landslides_jak102.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=LZULDL_qapO6rmuUa3yptA--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="Residents remove ruins from houses damaged by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake in the town of Bima, on Indonesia's Sumbawa island, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. The strong undersea earthquake killed at least two people, while injuring dozens and damaged buildings on the remote island in central Indonesia, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Tangguh Afgani)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)