Earthquake

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Thirteen people were killed in a powerful earthquake that hit Uzbekistan's heavily populated Ferghana Valley region early Wednesday, emergency officials said.A magnitude-6.2 quake in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan hit shortly after midnight in a mountainous area some 22 miles (35 kilometres) away from the eastern Uzbek city of Ferghana, which has a population of more than 200,000.

Despite releasing a slew of popular devices including the Xperia Play, Mini and Arc, Sony Ericsson today posted a net loss of €50 million.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 struck in the middle of the English Channel yesterday, the British Geological Survey said.

Calendario Copa America 2-24 July, 2011. Teenage striker Joel Campbell inspired Costa Rica to a 2-0 victory over nine-man Bolivia to leave Argentina's Copa America future under threat.

An earthquake registering 5.6 on the Richter Scale shook the Pacific off Honshu, Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.

Residents of New Zealand's second city of Christchurch will be provided with more mental health and counselling services after they had to endure thousands of minor earthquakes and aftershocks over the last 10 months in addition to the major quakes of February and June.

A tsunami sparked by a powerful 7.6-magitude quake failed to materialise on New Zealand's shores, but Civil Defence says people should expect high tides within the next 24 hours.

Japan is planning to conduct "stress tests" on all of its nuclear power plants to address safety fears and avoid possible power shortages when demand reaches peak levels later this summer.After the11 March accident at Fukushima Daiichi power plant, reactors had to be shut down and delays in restarting others already undergoing regular maintenance checks mean that only 19 of Japan's 54 reactors are currently operating, hindering the county's effort to recover after the tsunami and...

Japan's minister in charge of overseeing the reconstruction of the country's devastated north-east coast resigned on Tuesday, just one week into the job, amid criticism that he offended victims of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami in comments captured by TV cameras.

For the first time since April, radioactive cesium-137 was found in Tokyo's tap water as Japan grapples with the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.

Just two days after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11, U.K officials reportedly contacted energy companies warning that they could not allow the disaster to dent public support for nuclear power.

Just as the operators of Tokyo Electric Power, better known as Tepco, apologised profusely today during its annual shareholders meeting, tonnes of radioactive water were discovered to have leaked into the ground from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, the latest in a series of leaks at the plant damaged in a March earthquake and tsunami, the country's nuclear watchdog said.

Tokyo Electric Power, better known as Tepco, has been at the centre of Japan's nuclear problems since the deadly earthquake and tsunami in March, as it failed to control a meltdown at its Fukushima nuclear plant.

It was a glorious, sunny day as I took my wife and kids to the Kasteel Meulen (Castle Mill) at the very top of the village of Mont Cassel, about 18 miles from Dunkerque. My children were excited to see a working windmill but, regrettably, there was not a breath of wind in the shimmering mid-summer heat and so, Blue Peter-like, we had to buy a bag of flour that the miller had already made.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 has struck the Pacific Ocean 172km east of Atka, sending residents of small coastal towns to higher ground as officials issued a tsunami warning in the temblor's wake.

As Japan attempts to bury its head in the sand over the full scale of the Fukushima nuclear power meltdown there is growing concerns across the world that the United States is not taking the problem seriously enough.

The full extent of the damage to the environment and the safety of the Japanese people that the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power caused is only now starting to become avaliable. Even more worrying is that it has not been released by the Japanese government but independent scientists who has scathed the Japanese governments rescue attempts.

With E3 out of the way and the sun beginning to set on the current generation of home entertainment consoles, recently released sales figures have revealed that Microsoft's Xbox 360 is currently beating Sony's PS3 in overall sales.

Significant aftershocks continued to rock the New Zealand city of Christchurch today, following two strong quakes that brought down new buildings and caused the death of one nursing home resident on Monday.

Following the 6.3-magnitude quake that killed 181 people on Feb. 22, the New Zealand city of Christchurch was struck on Monday by a 5.2-magnitude aftershock before also suffering an hour later, a 6.0 hit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Other smaller quakes were also recorded. In the central city and nearby suburbs, several buildings were damaged.

Two powerful aftershocks have hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch, less than four months after an earthquake that killed 181 people.

Shares in British banks were mixed on the FTSE 100 in morning trading despite some weak data on British factory output.

With Sony having just revealed its new handheld PlayStation Vita console, analysts and consumers alike have begun speculating about whether the Vita will be able to reverse the handheld console market's ailing fortunes.

On 03 June 2011, the German magazine Stern reported that Chancellor Angela Merkel had agreed with the provincial governments (Länder) to a phased closure programme of all of Germany's 17 nuclear power plants by 2022. Mrs Merkel wants the closures to start at two-year intervals from 2015 at two plants per odd-numbered year and the final two or three plants, the most modern, in 2022.

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A forceful 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Chile on Wednesday off the country's south-central Pacific Coast, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Sony today announced its earnings for the financial year ending 31 March, 2011, recording a loss close to its initial estimate.

Nearing the end of its two-month long PSN hacking disaster, despite estimating an up to $171 million loss, Sony has managed to record a two per cent rise in share value.

Shares in ARM Holdings were down on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading after the group reported a rise in pre-tax profit in the first quarter ended 31 March.