From a distance, it suggests a tinsmith's shop after an earthquake has rattled the shelves.
Eleven months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, photographers returned to document the intensive rebuilding progress.
The quake comes just days after an earthquake of 4.2 magnitude hit the region, sending tremors in New Delhi.
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So, after an earthquake, all such GPS and satnav systems will be incorrect.
In 2010, the team helped rescue more than 100 people after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck Haiti.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Twitter users were the first to alert others last summer after an earthquake hit Southern California.
The other market in focus on Monday was China, where stocks were slightly lower after an earthquake hit Sichuan province over the weekend.
It should, its manufacturers hope, be able to distinguish a cat from a cat burglar, or detect barely breathing bodies under several metres of rubble after an earthquake.
One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, the Mobile Giving Foundation has a message for the public: you can still donate money to Haiti via your cellphone.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- For someone trapped under rubble after an earthquake the sight of something resembling a snake wriggling towards them would probably be the last thing they would want to see.
Often, the people injured in a disaster are literally color-coded by medical workers with colored tags, says Carl Ramsay, chair of emergency medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, who has cared for people after an earthquake, airplane crashes, and large-scale fires.
After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Congress overruled FEMA's refusal to provide aid to damaged churches, they said, and after an earthquake in Seattle in 2002, the Justice Department stepped in and directed FEMA to assist religious organizations damaged by the quake.
Mr. Ran said Beidou is already being used by more than 100, 000 clients in China and has been used to help track government vehicles in the southern province of Guangdong, and to assist disaster-relief work after an earthquake in the western province of Sichuan in 2008.
BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Thai authorities say more than 300 people have been killed as a result of tsunamis that devastated southern Thailand after an enormous earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.
Iommi became well known in the Eastern European country after helping produce an album to raise money after a huge earthquake in 1988.
One year after the earthquake that killed an estimated 300, 000 people and transformed Port-au-Prince and several communities into ruins, Haiti continues to be buried in chaos.
Led by the auto and heavy machinery sectors, Japan begins to stand back on its feet after the devastation caused by an earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11.
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Homes were damaged and at least five people have been reported dead after a tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake hit the Solomon Islands.
Japan's decision will also be influenced by an increased demand for oil after the earthquake and tsunami last year.
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The night after the blackout, there was indeed an earthquake, of 6.8 on the Richter scale strong enough to cut the power supply and once again to plunge large areas of the northern Philippines into darkness.
China Youth Daily says the country must learn from Japan's earthquake-resistant building designs after almost all the buildings in Baoxing county in Ya'an, including newer earthquake-proof houses, were badly damaged in the quake.
Just hours after arriving near Barcelona, the Swansea team were caught by an earthquake that measured 3.6 on the Richter scale.
An eyewitness told ABC News that many people sought higher ground after the earthquake struck.
After the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, for example, it was reported that an estimated 5.1 million homes had been lost.
The agency launched the contest in an effort to boost tourism following the earthquake, but retracted the offer after the government denied the proposed budget.
An earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan early in the year rocked the nuclear community after the Fukushima Daiichi plant, operated by Tepco, suffered substantial damage to various reactors and some partial meltdowns, with radiation leakage.
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