On the heels of a recession and major earthquake, his youth-oriented brand is expanding aggressively.
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They were found guilty of failing to properly communicate the risk of a major earthquake in L'Aquila.
The exercise will go a long way in helping us be prepared in the event of a major earthquake.
How many Californians left after the last major earthquake and never came back?
Residents from the Italian region struck by a major earthquake in 2009 have skirmished with police at a demonstration in Rome.
We have a weak levy system in California, in Sacramento River Valley, and we've got the potential of a major earthquake in northern California.
Trading was tentative Wednesday morning as the market place digested news out of the Indian Ocean region, where a major earthquake occurred near Indonesia overnight.
The group says it uses the site as an office for relief work in an area hit by a major earthquake in 2005 but it did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.
It is possible, for instance, to say that there is a 60% chance of a major earthquake in Istanbul in the next 30 years, says Howard Kunreuther at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Mogi's job was to advise the prime minister on whether or not to declare a national emergency in the hours before a major earthquake was due to hit Tokyo, something he felt he could not possibly do.
It will take a major political earthquake on 2 May to wrench control from the Conservatives but one thing is for certain - they all want your vote.
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In Tabriz and nearby Ardabil, the two major cities near the earthquake area, several local businesses, teachers and college professors had created ad hoc relief teams, separate from the government, and were sending truckloads of food, water and blankets to the area.
They may get a rude awakening when a major storm, flood, earthquake or fire hits their communities.
In contrast, Toyota and Honda saw market share climb sharply from last year when they suffered major supply chain disruptions after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Beijing's Sina and other major news portals report that an earthquake in Taiwan's central Nantou county at around 10:00 local time inured several people and even shook buildings further north in Taipei.
Thanks to a decade without major natural disasters following the 1994 Northridge earthquake, property and casualty insurers were awash with capital and had little need to hunt for more.
Investors in the affected regions may need to liquidate assets to offset major losses suffered as a result of the earthquake.
Safety in schools has been a major public concern in China since a devastating earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008 killed tens of thousands of people.
Washington has played this role in every major disaster dating back to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, when over 4, 000 troops from the U.S. Army's Pacific Division were mobilized to provide emergency relief, including constructing temporary housing for 20, 000 survivors.
Analysts told us that the Japanese earthquake and tsunami were guaranteed to cause a major drop in global GDP.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa played a major role in the recovery efforts following the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and, according to British authorities, the organization siphoned off large sums of donations and put them to use in direct support of Jihadist terrorism.
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Barnett also anchored major breaking news events like the aftermath of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, the rescue of the Chilean Miners as well as global reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden.
In March, after a devastating earthquake and tsunami, the Bank of Japan and other major central banks around the world intervened in the markets when the dollar was trading around the 76-yen mark.
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On the heels of a recession and devastating earthquake, his youth-oriented apparel retailer, Uniqlo, is in major expansion mode in what looks like a direct challenge to U.S. clothing sellers like Zara and the Gap.
Basically, this would be like a developer who is building homes along a fault line and only tests the durability of the construction up to a level 4.0 (light) earthquake when there is a decent probability that an 8.0 (major) may hit.
Louis, I also joined Secretary Arne Duncan and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon at Carnahan High School of the Future to participate in the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut--the largest-ever, multi-state earthquake drill to be held in the United States, and the first major drill to take place along the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which was the site of one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history nearly 200 years ago.
If the early reports of no deaths or major damage hold, the quake would stand in stark contrast to Mexico's 1985 earthquake that measured 8.0 in magnitude, killed thousands of people and destroyed thousands of buildings in Mexico City, including hospitals, office towers and hotels.
In estimating the impact on the market of the removal of a major U.S. city in a nuclear attack, he analyzes the effects of the San Francisco earthquake and fire early in the last century and the destruction of New Orleans after Katrina.
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