And I cannot imagine the destruction to my own City by the occurrence of a quake with a magnitude greater than eight.
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The quake, with a magnitude 8.0, struck at 01:12 GMT near the Santa Cruz islands, the US Geological Survey said.
The magnitude-8 quake, with a depth of 28.7 kilometers, was centered about 355 kilometers east of the Santa Cruz Islands, part of the Solomon Islands nation, according to a bulletin issued by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The market consisted of two halls joined by a clock tower and an ambitious rebuilding project saw it reopen a year on from the quake, with ex-US President Bill Clinton on hand to do the honours.
Don Blakeman, a USGS geophysicist, said the California quake had nothing to do with the quake that devastated Turkey.
He is working with Quake to create a thumb-size chip that can automatically catalog the genes and proteins inside a single stem cell.
Having played competitively since 1999 in the early days of eSports with Quake 3, Tekken 2 and even DDR, Graham has watched pro gaming evolve.
Houses collapsed and roads buckled when the quake hit, with much of the intensity concentrated in Lushan, a county just southwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu.
Hospital officials said more than 4, 000 staffers were allocated to deal with the quake, almost half of all staff on duty.
Speaking of Japan effect, although many companies are now shrugging it off, saying sales in Japan are not material, or not materially affected, and supply issues have been managed by sourcing elsewhere, the quake and tsunami occurred with only three weeks left in the quarter, and the merchant market and inventory were sufficient to carry most companies through.
The latest version, Quake III Arena, was designed with multiplayer gaming in mind and has become one of the most popular online games.
American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono, speaking from Hawaii, said Tuesday's quake ranked "right up there with some of the worst" disasters on the island.
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At the time of Tuesday's quake, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti was meeting with the head of the civil protection agency and the governor of the region to discuss the previous quake.
Huddled with my wife in our Tokyo apartment during the post-quake swarm of tremors, we felt a deep kinship via the Internet with many friends throughout the world.
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The quake left stone buildings in heaps, with rubble spilling over parked cars and into alleyways.
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Honeywell had sent its corporate jets down there with supplies shortly after the quake, said David Cote lamely.
When the quake happened I was living and working Haiti with my family.
"All those under debris have been rescued and the quake-stricken people are now being provided with their basic needs, " said Qaddami.
The company, which makes carbon black and tantalum, said facilities in Aizu and Chiba lost power, with operations temporarily suspended during the quake.
The death toll from the quake is expected to rise even higher, with state media saying thousands are still trapped in collapsed buildings.
Hope has flickered that the quake might advance India's peace process with Pakistan, by bringing about a softening of the line of control.
"All those under debris have been rescued, and the quake-stricken people are now being provided with their basic needs, " Deputy Interior Minister Hassan Qaddami told Fars.
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Now that the basic architecture is down, Quake's 20-person lab, along with various university collaborators, is rushing to explore potential real-world applications.
Quake II's creatures reverberated in the room with me, and my jazz CDs sounded magnificent, better even than on my home stereo system.
He notes that Maxim has about 19% exposure to the quake, as a result of its foundry arrangement with Seiko Epson, in Sakata, Japan.
The deadliest quake of all-time was in Tangshan, China with over 650, 000 dead.
Shortly after the quake Gary had sent his son and daughter to live with family in the U.S. He could barely say their names without tearing up.
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Microsoft employees quake all year at the prospect of their annual meetings with Bill Gates, where even being shouted at would not hurt as much as seeming to be an idiot.
The world's largest recorded quake took place in Chile on May 22, 1960, with a magnitude of 9.5, the USGS said.
With federal buildings destroyed by the Jan. 12 quake, the Haitian Cabinet has relocated to the airport, where it holds press conferences under a mango tree.
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