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With 12,000 Still Missing, Japan Keeps Searching

SHICHIGAHAMAMACHI, Japan -- A line of somber soldiers walked methodically through a drained swamp Monday, with each step sinking their slender poles into the muck beneath. If one hit a body, he would know. "Bodies feel very distinctive," said Michihiro Ose, a spokesman for the Japanese army's 22nd infantry regiment. The...

Japan Plans Disaster Budget, Building 100K Homes

TOKYO -- Japan's government proposed a special $50 billion (4 trillion yen) budget to help finance reconstruction efforts Friday and plans to build 100,000 temporary homes for survivors of last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami. The twin disasters destroyed roads, ports, farms and homes and crippled a nuclear...

Baby in Iconic Tsunami Photo Safe With Parents

ISHINOMAKI, Japan -- A Japanese soldier grins as he cradles a tiny baby in a fuzzy pink blanket, plucked from the second story of a wreckage-blocked house three days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami flattened much of the country's northeastern coastline. The moment -- captured by a photographer from leading...

Radiation Surges in Japan as Police Search for Bodies

TOKYO - A new glitch in the cooling of used fuel at Japan's crippled nuclear plant prompted a surge in radiation, but an overall decline in leaks allowed police Thursday to search for missing tsunami victims closer to the complex than ever before. Police in protective gear scoured a 6-mile radius around the Fukushima...

Google Sends Messages of Support to Japan From Around the World

"Be strong and never give up." "Keep being the best country in the world." "Japón es una nación de gente valiente." On Google's new website, messagesforjapan.com, those words of encouragement are spread out over the globe like cherry blossoms, coming from computer users in hundreds of countries expressing solidarity...

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06/02/12 50% Chance of New Strong Aftershocks in Bulgaria,... Source: Novinite - Bulgaria There is a 50% chance of Bulgaria experiencing a new strong aftershock in the wake of the May 22 earthquake , according to Prof. Nikolay Miloshev , head of the Geophysics Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
06/01/12 Market town is hit by earthquake Source: Express & Star - Wolverhampton - West Midlands - UK An earthquake has hit the market town of Ludlow, the British Geological Survey said.
05/31/12 Reasons for 36 yearlong aftershocks in Tangshan Source: People's Daily On the morning of May 28, a magnitude-4.8 earthquake shook Tangshan, 36 years after the Tangshan Earthquake.
05/30/12 Evidence needed to judge new earthquake cycle Source: China Daily Scientists still need to seek comprehensive and robust scientific evidence to decide whether the Earth has entered a new cycle of large earthquakes, a geophysicist told Xinhua on Wednesday.