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What is more, in extending the earthquake record beyond the written sources, archaeoseismology serves as a bridge between instrumental and historical seismology, on the one hand, and palaeoseismology and earthquake geology, on the other.
UNESCO: Tales set in Stone: learning from ancient earthquakes
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Japanese buildings are highly engineered and most withstood the record earthquake - the tsunami it triggered was the bigger killer, our correspondent says.
BBC: Robots record high radiation levels at Japan reactors
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He said monitoring apparatus didn't record an earthquake and formation of magma, which usually precede an eruption.
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Its most destructive on record was an 8.4 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 1, 1923 on the main, central, island of Honshu.
FORBES: China Sends Rescue Workers to Quake Ravaged Japan-Xinhua
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Geopolitical uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, surging oil prices, and the catastrophic earthquake in Japan will disrupt travel plans and test record high prices for online travel agencies.
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The inability to do that is what lies behind the government's sorry record on crisis management during the Kobe earthquake two years ago, the costly oil spill in the Sea of Japan this year and the hostage crisis in Peru.
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The previous record was an 8.6-magnitude earthquake that struck near the Chubu Region near southwestern Honshu on October 28, 1707, that may have killed 5, 000 people, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.
CNN: Widespread destruction from Japan earthquake, tsunamis
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The skid, which came on record trading volume, was its biggest since the decline in the wake of Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster in March 2011.
WSJ: U.S. Stocks Join Global Slide
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Following the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March a number of photographers who headed to the region to record the aftermath found devastation on a scale many had not seen before.
BBC: iPhone photo app aims at relief effort