The earthquake might force Japanese companies to redirect foreign direct investment.
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Fabio Picuti, the public prosecutor, stresses that the charge is not about whether the experts, who included Enzo Boschi, then president of the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV), should have predicted exactly when, where and with what force the earthquake would have struck.
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The force of the earthquake sheared off the sides of those mountains, and the landslides roared straight down onto the city.
Thousands more have been injured many by the sheer force of the earthquake.
He breaks it in half to show how soft it was how unable it was to withstand the force of the earthquake.
They are creating a new political fault line that is ripping through both political parties with the force of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
"It seems to reason that a large earthquake in one location could provide the extra force needed in another nearby location, to stretch that rubber band to the breaking point, thus triggering another earthquake, " Miller said.
In the wake of the Kobe earthquake, new regulations for quake-proofing buildings came into force, and some local governments offer citizens a structural health check on their homes.
Bill Clinton, the former U.S. president who is the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, said Sunday that 40 percent of the Haitian police force has reported for duty since the January 12 earthquake.
At every step of the way Twitter has been a leveling force from the elections in Iraq to the earthquake in Haiti, Twitter has made direct communication in these countries possible.
Assuming that 1, 600 troops leave by June as scheduled, the force will be cut to 7, 400, roughly the same number as before Haiti's earthquake in January 2010.
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