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Watching, worrying and waiting
While the world watches Japan struggle to overcome the effects of a deadly tsunami, earthquakes and nuclear radiation leaks, Junko Nakayama watches more closely than most.
Nakayama, trainer for the La Crescenta Valley High School baseball team, said a...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Petroleum Industry, Human Interest, Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, Natural Disasters
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I'm Just Sayin': Are we really ready for 'The Big One?'
The tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week and the subsequent and ongoing nuclear crisis have made many of us ask how well the U.S., and even more importantly, Southern California, is prepared to handle these kinds of cataclysmic events. What...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Human Interest, Southern California Edison Company, Science and Technology, Natural Disasters
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Disney donates $2.5M to Japan relief efforts
The Burbank-based Walt Disney Co. will donate $2.5 million to the American Red Cross for humanitarian aid in earthquake- and tsunami-torn Japan, officials announced Tuesday. “Our hearts go out to the people of Japan,” Disney President and...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Human Interest, Natural Disasters, Charity, Politics
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Disaster a world away
Tremors from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan were felt in Glendale Friday, as a handful of Japanese students here on an exchange program heard the news of their home country while settling in for a three-week stay in the United states....Tags: Osaka (Japan), Earthquakes, Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Natural Disasters
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Supervisor calls for 'structural overhaul'
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich slammed state lawmakers on Wednesday at an economic summit at Woodbury College in Burbank, blaming them for much of the financial stress that has forced local governments to shed jobs and cut services. The...Tags: Economic Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Politics, Consumers
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Scientists observe 'tragic experiment' of tsunami debris
Jeff Larson has seen just about everything wash up on the shores of Santa Cruz: bottles, toys, shotgun shells, busted surfboards and fishing floats that looked like they had bobbed across the Pacific. When surging water driven by the magnitude 9.0...Tags: Science and Technology, Natural Disasters, Pacific Ocean, U.S. Coast Guard, Earthquakes
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Tsunami alert: Don't cut that program
After last week's earthquake in the Indian Ocean, people in Indonesia responded far differently than they had seven years earlier, after another major quake: They evacuated low coastal areas to escape a possible tsunami. As it turned out, there were no...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Bodies of Water, Southeast Asia, Earthquakes, Natural Disasters
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6.9 quake shakes Baja California, but no tsunami expected
L.A. NOWA magnitude-6.9 earthquake shook Baja California early Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, but no tsunami was expected to strike California.... -
Tsunami program cuts would leave California exposed
The Times’ April 18 editorial, “Tsunami alert: Don’t cut that program,” raises awareness of some unwelcome proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s tsunami program. The cuts, which amount to $4.6...
Tags: Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Japan, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Magnitude 5.9 quake off Oregon coast; no damage
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 5.9-magnitude earthquake has struck about 160 miles off the Oregon coast, but there are no reports of damage. The quake was reported at about 3:40 p.m. local time Wednesday, west-northwest of the coastal city of Bandon, Ore....Tags: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquakes, Natural Disasters
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Saluting the culinary traditions hit hard by 2011 quake
"Kibo: Brimming With Hope; Recipes and Stories from Japan's Tohoku" By Elizabeth Andoh (Ten Speed Press, $3.99)
Saluting the culinary traditions hit hard by 2011 quake
Almost a year after an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster struck northeastern...Tags: Washington, DC, Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, Japan, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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L.A. man makes tsunami recovery documentary, 'Pray for Japan'
24 Frames"Pray for Japan": Stu Levy, founder of L.A. based manga and anime importer TokyoPop, has made a documentary about the post-tsunami recovery efforts in Japan. All proceeds go to charity....
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