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Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 9:08PM What a change a week can make.
Sendai, Japan in April 2010.
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Sendai, Japan on March 12, 2011 following the earthquae and tsunami.
Wow!
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:20AM There will be worse video than this of the destruction in Japan, but this will give you a small taste of what a tsunami can do when unleased.
This is a small airport in Japan, the city of Sendai.
Flood, Japan, Sendai airport, tsunami in News, People, Television, Travel Sunday, January 2, 2011 at 4:47PM A major earthquake of 7.2 magnitude hit central Chile on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The epicenter was 60 miles northwest of Temuco, which is a city of 245,000 people.
There is no current widespread tsunami threat, although there are reports of people fleeing the area.
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake in the same area last February caused widespread destruction and left dozens dead.
Casualty and damage estimates are unknown.
Chile, the world's top copper producer, has seen its economy surge on heavy spending to rebuild cities ravaged by the February quake and record prices for its main export.
Emergency officials in Chile ruled out a tsunami after Sunday's quake and operations were normal at the Andean division of Chilean copper miner Codelco after the tremor, a spokesman said.
A spokesman for state energy company ENAP said operations were also running as usual at the Bio Bio oil refinery in the area.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 6:45AM A strong 6.6 magnitude quake struck off Japan's southern Bonin Islands on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with tremors felt more than 500 miles away in Tokyo, but no tsunami was expected.
The quake hit at 12.24 pm local time, 337 kilometres (210 miles) west northwest of Chichi-shima in Japan's remote Bonin island region at a depth of 478 kilometres. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury.
The USGS originally said the quake was magnitude 6.9, but later revised its figure down to a 6.6.
Japan's meteorological agency also said the focus was off the west coast of the same chain of islands in the Pacific, known in Japan as the Ogasawara islands, 808 kilometres south of Tokyo.
Even so, the quake swayed buildings in the capital.
Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes strike Japan, which sits on the "Ring of Fire" surrounding the Pacific Ocean. No Tsunami warnings have been issued.
6.6, Japan earthquake, tsunami in News 