Interview: Comedian Earthquake discusses his comedy and TV show

Tavis Smiley (NPR);  October 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Smiley (NPR) 10-31-2003 Interview: Comedian Earthquake discusses his comedy and TV show Host...bone with our featured comic of the week, Earthquake. Once known to mainly urban audiences, Earthquake has now become a comedic treasure among...

Scientists Say Florida Earthquake Rare

AP Online;  September 11, 2006 ;     557 words ......Scientists said Sunday's magnitude 6.0 earthquake that rattled windows from southwest Florida to Louisiana is rare - the largest earthquake in the eastern Gulf of Mexico in 30...always going to be a bigger threat than earthquakes in Florida," said Eugene Schweig, a...

2004 Sumatra Earthquake Defied Assumptions.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Newswire) -- The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 2004 is the best recorded large earthquake in history and has revealed the extent...overturn the commonly held view that great earthquakes only occur in fast, young subduction zones...

Indian experts developing earthquake-prediction device

The Hindustan Times;  November 16, 2005 ;     381 words ......destruction caused by the recent earthquake on a large scale which killed...have claimed that anticipating earthquakes would soon become possible. According...Dr Arun Bapat, a seismologist, earthquakes can be predicted and India will...

The Earthquake Chronicles; An American in Kobe Faxes Home With the...

The Washington Post;  January 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ...On Jan. 17, the day of the massive earthquake in Kobe, Carolyn Brown Mizutani described...and sister-in-law.} We survived a 7.2 earthquake this morning. The ground and buildings...I tell you truly that when this earthquake woke me up, I was convinced that we...

Seismologist Explains Type of Earthquake That Hit India

NPR All Things Considered;  October 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 NOAH ADAMS: This [Indian] earthquake registered as high as 6.5. Anything...can be cataclysmic and this sort of earthquake is said to be very hard to predict...the coastal areas, and this kind of earthquake, affecting a continental area, an intra-craton...

Scientists re-assess last year's earthquake in Sumatra

Xinhua News Agency;  May 20, 2005 ;     582 words ...Scientists re-assess last year's earthquake in Sumatra LOS ANGELES, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The Sumatran-Andaman earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, which caused a...research papers to re-evaluate this earthquake. The event was the second-largest...

Phivolcs urges public to join earthquake drills.(Metro & National News)

Manila Bulletin;  May 30, 2006 ;     396 words ......MADEL R. SABATER Though the Indonesia earthquake that killed more than 4,500 people last...the public to seriously participate in earthquake drills in schools, offices, and communities...be aware of what to do in case of an earthquake. Dapat may evacuation plan and earthquake...

USGS: Why was the recent earthquake in Turkey so de destructive?

M2 Presswire;  August 31, 1999 ;     665 words ......August 1999-USGS: Why was the recent earthquake in Turkey so destructive? (C)1994-99...1999 The August 17, 1999, magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Turkey leveled thousands of buildings...10,000 deaths. This was the largest earthquake in western Turkey in this century, but...

Quake damages may be worse than expected. (Los Angeles, California,...

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management;  January 31, 1994 ;     700+ words ......loss estimate for the Los Angeles earthquake, a seismic engineering firm called it the most destructive U.S. earthquake since the 1906 San Francisco disaster...diaster assistance to victims of earthquake. The request is in addition to...

NIGHT THAT THE EARTH MOVED; ++ EARTHQUAKE DRAMA ++.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  February 28, 2008 ;     663 words ......others weren't stirred as the biggest earthquake for 24 years hit Coventry and Warwickshire...I never imagined that it would be an earthquake. Tracey Divine, 43, of Hill Road, Keresley...vibrating and thought it must be an earthquake. Policeman Chris Turner, 40, from Coventry...

Britain is soon to run out of single mumps vaccine ; Britain is set to run...

Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  July 9, 2008 ;     590 words ......vaccine after it emerged the world's only supplier has halted production of the single vaccine. Tens of thousands of toddlers could...American pharmaceutical giant Merck, has mysteriously halted production until at least 2009. The firm - which also supplies the...

Interview: Andrew Michael discusses the importance of yesterday's...

NPR Special;  September 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ......discusses the importance of yesterday's earthquake in Parkfield, California Host: ALEX...holidays, what to do and when. First, the earthquake that struck central California yesterday...of Parkfield, where there exists an earthquake study center. Andrew Michael is a seismologist...

Just what Florida needs now: An earthquake.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  September 11, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Naanes Sep. 11--The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, it wasn't. But for Florida...the University of Miami, said Sunday's earthquake was the biggest one the Gulf region...In that period, he said, eight other earthquakes have been recorded within a 200-mile...

A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS ON SURVIVORS OF THE 1999 EARTHQUAKE...

Social Behavior and Personality;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...In the 17 August 1999 Kocaeli Earthquake about 20,000 people died and 3,000,000...directly or indirectly. A survey of earthquake victims in Kocaeli and Adapazari (two...conducted 8 months after this major earthquake to find out its physically and psychologically...