Speaking of which, what is the most overdue earthquake zone on the planet today?
The Japanese disaster impacted many electronics industries that had production in Northern Japan near the earthquake zone.
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Founded in 1966 by Cheng Yen, a Buddhist nun from central Taiwan, Tzu-Chi and its lotus symbol have become a reassuring sight throughout the earthquake zone.
Another of the photographers involved is Jake Price whose pictures from Japan were published on my blog in March, as well as an audio slideshow of his time in the earthquake zone.
Like the time a little Chinese girl came up to me after I performed at a relocation school in Sichuan's earthquake disaster zone and asked: "Big Sister Wang, can I sing you a song that my mom sang before she was swallowed in the earthquake...?" She sat on my lap and I could feel the warmth of her body.
Berkley said that, according to scientists, the proposed Nevada waste dump is located in an earthquake and volcanic eruption zone.
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Plans for such a business-friendly zone in Kobe after its 1995 earthquake were watered down to almost nothing.
Gian Michele Calvi, an expert in earthquake engineering who is one of the indicted seven, says the commission recognised that L'Aquila is in a highly seismic zone, and that a powerful earthquake could therefore happen at any time.
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Instead of occurring at a plate boundary along an area called a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another, this earthquake occurred in the middle of an oceanic plate, where the faults in the crust essentially moved from side to side instead of up and down.
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Situated in a high-risk zone, Indonesia now has developed the capability to warn of the potential for a tsunami from an undersea earthquake within five minutes of its occurrence.
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