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Scientists urge quake preparedness
AP   Wednesday, 10 January 2007

This recent aerial photo provided by United States Geological Survey, shows a view looking southeast along the surface trace of the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain area of California. Elkhorn Rd. meets the fault near the top of the photo. The magnitute-7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake in 1857 caused a horizontal shift of about 30 feet near this stretch of the fault. The 150th anniversary Fort Tejon earthquake is Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007, but, it's the California earthquake hardly anyone has heard of _ strong enough to rip 225 miles of the San Andreas Fault and make rivers run backward, but leaving nothing like the cultural scar inflicted by the San Francisco Quake of 1906. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Scott Haefner)AP - California seismologists launched an earthquake-readiness campaign Tuesday with the slogan "Shift Happens."
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Quake rattles northwestern British Columbia
Reuters   Wednesday, 10 January 2007
Reuters - A moderate earthquake rattled northwestern British Columbia and the Alaska Panhandle on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage, seismologists said.
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Moderate quake shakes southeast Alaska
AP   Wednesday, 10 January 2007
AP - A moderate earthquake jolted Southeast Alaska on Tuesday and was widely felt throughout the Panhandle.
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Swiss city's geothermal plan in doubt after tremors
Reuters   Tuesday, 09 January 2007
Reuters - Efforts to tap energy deep below the earth's crust to provide power for homes in the Swiss city of Basel may have to be scrapped after setting off tremors.
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Montserrat volcano shoots ash 5 miles up
AP   Tuesday, 09 January 2007

A cloud of superheated ash and gas flows from the Soufriere Hills volcano, as seen from Olveston, Montserrat, Monday, Jan. 8, 2007. The cloud reportedly shot up more than 5 miles, 8 kilometers, into the sky, and authorities warn that more significant activity is possible in the coming days. (AP Photo/Wayne Fenton)AP - The volcano that destroyed Montserrat's capital in 1997 shot a cloud of ash more than five miles into the sky on Monday, and one of the island's chief scientists said the blast was "a warning call."
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Little-known quake is remembered
AP   Tuesday, 09 January 2007

This 1960's aerial photo, provided by United States Geological Survey, shows a section of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain area of California. The magnitute-7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake in 1857 caused a horizontal shift of about 30 feet on this stretch of the fault. The red arrows indicate the opposing movements. The 150th anniversary Fort Tejon earthquake is Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007, but, it's the California earthquake hardly anyone has heard of _ strong enough to rip 225 miles of the San Andreas Fault and make rivers run backward, but leaving nothing like the cultural scar inflicted by the San Francisco Quake of 1906. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Robert Wallace)AP - It's the California earthquake hardly anyone has heard of — strong enough to rip 225 miles of the San Andreas Fault and make rivers run backward, but leaving nothing like the cultural scar inflicted by the San Francisco Quake of 1906.
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Correction: Montserrat Volcano story
AP   Tuesday, 09 January 2007
AP - In a Jan. 3 story about volcanic activity on Montserrat, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of people evacuated from the area near the volcano. About 40 people were evacuated, not hundreds.
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Moderate quake off Nicobar islands
Reuters   Monday, 08 January 2007
Reuters - A moderate undersea earthquake occurred off the west coast of India's Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and disaster control officials said.
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Moderate quake rocks northwestern Japan
AP   Monday, 08 January 2007
AP - A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 struck northwestern Japan Monday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, the Meteorological Agency said.
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Moderate quake hits Myanmar
AFP   Sunday, 07 January 2007

A drum seismograph at an earthquake monitoring station. A moderate five-magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - A moderate five-magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
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10,000 Chinese domain names vanish amid Web chaos
AFP   Friday, 05 January 2007

File picture of pedestrians passing a China Netcom telephone booth in Beijing, where nearly 10,000 Chinese website operators have lost the use of their .com Internet addresses due to telecom problems caused by last month's earthquake near Taiwan.(AFP/File/Frederic Brown)AFP - Nearly 10,000 Chinese website operators have lost the use of their .com Internet addresses due to telecom problems caused by last month's earthquake near Taiwan, state media reported.
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