"The whole earth was shaking and it lasted for two minutes, " Paul Mathai from World Vision, who was 130 kilometers (80 miles) from the epicenter, said in a statement from the organization.

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Placing the reactors underground would make them less vulnerable to the shaking from earthquakes, and the surrounding earth would absorb much of the heat released if an accident occurred, Genoa said.

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As a result of all the hubbub in the headlines, however, you may have overlooked a small item from Twitter, which, while being passed off as mumbo jumbo too technical for the masses, was in fact earth shaking.

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At this time, it is unlikely that we will initiate a rating change on TIF in the next few weeks barring anything earth-shaking.

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Rather than focus on earth-shaking change, with the technological and market-adoption challenges it represents, they opted instead to tweak the existing technology and focus on efficiencies.

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He landed, camped there, left and returned, studied, researched and conceived his earth-shaking theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species, in 1859.

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Sometimes a great, earth-shaking, new idea in science can be created in the most homespun ways.

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