Not least since September 21st last year, when a big earthquake struck the island.
He says that when an earthquake struck the island in 1999, a catastrophic ripple effect was expected, but the industry managed to regain its footing quickly.
In the seconds and minutes after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake shook the island nation of Japan to its core, Twitter brought the news to the world.
In the three years since a massive 7.0-magnatude earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti, Timberland has helped plant 2.2 million trees in the rural area surrounding Gonaives.
His latest role as the U.N. special envoy for Haiti has taken him twice to the earthquake-ravaged island nation and he is leading efforts to raise money for the hard-hit area.
In 1976, a severe earthquake shook the Philippine island of Mindanao, leaving about 8, 000 people dead.
Russia has been busy helping Japan recover from its March 11 natural disaster, when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the main island of Japan.
Not long ago we marked the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the small island nation of Haiti.
He also has visited the island nation twice since the earthquake, a fact he noted on Friday.
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It isn't known if operator error played a role, as it did three decades ago at Three Mile Island, but it's clear the earthquake exceeded the level for which the plant was designed.
Its most destructive on record was an 8.4 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923 on the main, central, island of Honshu.
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The warning was issued following a 7.5-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Alaska 63 miles west of Craig, a town on Prince of Wales Island, and 208 miles south of the capital of Juneau, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Although the unprecedented urban displacement provoked by the earthquake has not led to a stampede of Haitians attempting to cross the border to the western side of the island of Hispaniola, it has exposed migrants, particularly women, to new situations of vulnerability which may lead to human trafficking.
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