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via: cnn.com Washington (CNN) — Twenty-five of 27 spent-fuel storage casks at a Virginia nuclear plant were shifted between 1 and 4 inches during last week’s 5.8-magnitude earthquake, officials said Thursday. Read More

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via: cnn.com Animals at the National Zoo began to act differetnly prior to the East Coast earthquake. WJLA’s Lisa Fletcher reports. See More

A rare, powerful 5.8-magnitude earthquake rattled the eastern third of the United States on Tuesday, damaging older buildings, shutting down much of the nation’s capital and unnerving tens of millions of people from New England to the Carolinas. It was not a killer quake, nor even a particularly injurious one. But if it didn’t add […]

CNN.com is reporting that a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rattled the nations capitol, Washington D.C. and it was felt up to 90 miles away in New York and in parts of Ohio. Reporters are saying that you could clearly feel the ground move, buildings were shaking and things were falling off of the grounds. The Pentagon […]

Via CNN: A powerful earthquake hit Myanmar Thursday near its borders with China, Thailand and Laos, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake hit in eastern Myanmar, about 55 miles (89 km) north of Chiang Rai, Thailand, the survey reported. It had a magnitude of 6.8, the survey said, revising the estimate down from an […]

You can donate and help Japan residents by donating $10 to the American Red Cross. We raised over 60 Million dollars over the last two years in earthquake and hurricane relief so let’s come together for the families of Japan as well. Support Japan now by texting REDCROSS to 90999. From the American Red Cross: […]

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Video captured the moment the 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan.

Via CNN.com: Tokyo (CNN) — The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan in at least 100 years unleashed walls of water Friday that swept across rice fields, engulfing towns, dragging houses onto highways and tossing cars and boats like toys, apparently killing hundreds and forcing the evacuations of tens of thousands. Prime Minister Naoto Kan […]

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A great thing about comedians is that they can make you laugh through tough times. Earthquake is a guy you need to look up. He has done a special on Comedy Central and has been around for years making the world laugh. In this clip, he talks about how black people might be late for […]

From MSNBC LONDON — A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti. “I had thought Landina was dead and when I heard she was alive I was in shock,” the eight-month-old infant’s mother, Marie Miracle Seignon, told Britain’s Channel 4 News. […]

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A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the Gaithersburg, Maryland, area just after 5 a.m. ET Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city and large stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated. Six months later, not much appears to have changed. It still looks like a bomb just dropped on this city.