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How Minoru Mori's Vision Made Tokyo Safer
Looking out the windows of Time's 37th floor office in Tokyo, I often feel a little anxious. Since moving to Japan at the end of December, the earthquakes have...
How Minoru Mori’s Vision Made Tokyo Safer
Looking out the windows of Time’s 37th floor office in Tokyo, I often feel a little anxious. Since moving to Japan at the end of December, the earthquakes have...
Ohio: Gas-drilling Injection Well Led to Quakes
(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, state...
Walking Dead 101: University to Offer Zombie-Fighting Course
How would you react if there was a zombie apocalypse? Now if they only taught that in college. Oh wait, they do.
Concrete Answers on Iran
Turns out, Iran’s susceptibility to earthquakes has generated some of the world’s toughest concrete. That helps buildings survive temblors. But it also could...
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Tremors Shake New Zealand's Quake-Prone Christchurch
Four months after a devastating quake hit killing 181 people, two powerful earthquakes shake the country's second largest city
Japan's History of Massive Earthquakes
The Pacific nation, perched on the unstable Ring of Fire, has been rocked by frequent earthquakes in the past decade.
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Top 10 Deadliest Earthquakes
An 8.9-magnitude earthquake has hit northeastern Japan, producing a destructive tsunami that swept through several coastal areas. TIME takes a look at some of...
