Palo Alto Online reports that California highway 92, which starts at Half Moon Bay on the Pacific Coast and runs east over the Santa Cruz mountains, this morning was lined with hundreds of parked cars moved by coastal residents trying to keep their vehicles out of the way of any damaging waves.

FORBES: Some Flee Northern California Coast After Tsunami Warning

The Graf Goetzen was then transported in parts, in 500 crates, from Hamburg to Dar es Salaam on the coast of East Africa - and from there over mountains to Lake Tanganyika where Germany, Britain and Belgium were all engaged in colonial jostling.

BBC: Hope yet for African Queen gunboat on Lake Tanganyika

In the U.S., the capacity of pipelines exporting natural gas produced in the Rocky Mountains to markets in the Midwest, East Coast and West Coast rose more than 40% between 2001 and 2006.

FORBES: Big Oil's Hydrogen Future