Asian Tsunami Disaster News

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The Department of Environmental Conservation said the gift is from the Hokkaido Development Engineering Center and members of the International Association of Cold Region Development Studies.

Peter Mansbridge displayed warmth and humour at the Reader's Digest Lecture at Concordia's D.B. Clarke Theatre on May 31. Peter Mansbridge, CBC News' chief correspondent, recently celebrated 25 years as anchor of the broadcaster's nightly news program, The National.

Here's a link to the live web cam on the summit of near 13,800 foot Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Thanks to decades of geologic detective work, scientists know that on Jan. 26, 1700, at 9 p.m., a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the Pacific Northwest.

A tsunami in this area of the Western Indian Ocean could threaten the coastlines of India, Iran, Oman, Pakistan and further afield.

The Draupner wave , a single giant wave measured on New Year's Day 1995, finally confirmed the existence of freak waves, which had previously been considered near-mythical Rogue waves are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that occur far out in sea, and are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners .

West Virginia is spending nearly three times more than it expected for every mile of fiber-optic cable being built as part of a statewide high-speed Internet expansion project funded by the federal stimulus, according to a report.

FULL RIP 9.0 Sandi Doughton Sasquatch Books $23.95, 288 pages If ever a book risked being labeled "unsuitable for beach reading," it might well be "Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest."

Jonathon Jones, formerly of Nanaimo, now makes his home in Sendai, Japan, one of the worst-hit cities in that nation's recent quake.

THE highly-secretive Google X research lab has unveiled an ambitious plan to provide internet access to the 4.7 billion people who currently can't access the web via a ring of huge balloons circling the globe.

According to MANTANWEB : A life-size Licca-chan shows off her dancing with the Hula Girls .

Thanks to decades of geologic detective work, scientists know that on Jan. 26, 1700, at 9 p.m., a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the Pacific Northwest.

Outbound: A ship is loaded with products bound for overseas markets at a shipping terminal in Tokyo on April 18. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promises that his growth policies will revive the nation's industrial might.

The 19th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training exercise between the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Royal Thai Navy and Royal Thai Marine Corps began June 3 with opening ceremonies in Sattahip.

The last "Big One" - a giant earthquake and tsunami off the Northwest Coast - has been charted using cedar snags at the mouth of the Olympic Peninsula's Copalis River.

A legislative committee heard testimony Thursday on a plan to make Oregon's coastal towns more resilient in the event of a monster earthquake and tsunami projected to strike off the Pacific Northwest coast.

In March of 2011, a devastating tsunami and earthquake hit Japan. You probably remember the damage it did to the Fukashima nuclear plant.

Honeywell Chairman and CEO rebuild this community in cooperation with our partners, the people in the community, and the city of Ofunato," said Cote.

Early in "Pandora's Promise," Mark Lynas, a British environmental activist, walks around the ghostly environs of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, near the second-worst nuclear disaster in history.