from news reports beginning mar 11
Japan hit by catastrophic 8.9 magnitude quake, massive tsunami sweeps country Boing Boing
Many said the only experience comparable to watching the tsunami was watching the destruction in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001. LA Times World News
Quake measured a magnitude of 8.8, triggering warnings of tsunami as high as six metres and shaking buildings in Tokyo. Guardian World
A tsunami carries boats across waters in Kamaishi city port in this still image taken from video footage. Guardian World
Asia stock markets and the yen have fallen sharply in response to a tsunami and earthquake in Japan measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale. BBC Top Stories
Japan issued its most serious tsunami warning, saying a wave as high as 6m ( 20ft ) could strike the coast near Miyagi prefecture. BBC Top Stories
A massive earthquake has hit the north-east of Japan, triggering a tsunami that has caused extensive damage. BBC Top Stories
Two U.S. nuclear plants along the California coast made preparations for a potential Pacific Ocean tsunami on Friday, but continued to operate normally. Huffington Post Full Feed
After the quake, it took 45 minutes for the tsunami to reach the coast of Japan — 45 minutes of knowing, of waiting, of bracing. LA Times World News
Because the fault broke at a shallow depth, it shifted the seafloor, triggering tsunami waves throughout the Pacific Ocean. LA Times World News
New official death toll gives a clear idea of the scale of the tsunami 's destructive reach. Guardian World
But the tsunami also destroyed the electrical grid that would provide power to the cooling pumps and disabled the backup diesel generators that were supposed to kick in if that happened. LA Times Science
The powerful earthquake and tsunami that slammed northern Japan knocked out car plants and steel mills, stranded thousands in offices and at Disney's resort in Tokyo, and pummeled financial markets in Asia and Europe. LA Times Business
1 facility in Japan has lost its emergency cooling capacity, according to the Associated Press, bringing to three the number of reactors at that facility to fall prey to Friday 's magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami. LA Times Science
In the coming days, physicians and public health officials along Japan's hard-hit eastern coast can expect a second wave of tsunami victims with aspiration-related illnesses, trauma and crush wounds, as well as the threat of disease spread by contaminated water. LA Times World News
Yankees pitcher Kei Igawa has spoken with his family in northern Japan and is returning home after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and a tsunami devastated the country. New York Times, Sports
Documents from Tokyo Electric, the operator of the Japanese nuclear plants in crisis after Friday's devastating quake and tsunami, reveal that the company tested the Fukushima plant to withstand a quake up to magnitude 7.9. Boing Boing
The massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake that shook Japan and triggered a powerful tsunami on Friday has had a profound effect on both the surrounding terrain and the planet as a whole. Huffington Post Full Feed
While raw emotion guides the behaviour of the millions of people caught up in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami and earthquake, the rest of the country is responding with determination and a communal grief that is as genuine as it is understated. Guardian World
Think about it -- the earthquake, tsunami and potential nuclear disasters in Japan; the earthquakes in New Zealand, Chile and Haiti; revolutions and protests in Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, and Oman; slaughter in the Ivory Coast by a brutal dictator; continued fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Huffington Post Full Feed
A few minutes later, they found another body, rigor mortis fixing it in a sitting position, within the mess left by the earthquake and tsunami that slammed this coastal village in northeast Japan shortly after 2: 30 p.m. Friday. LA Times World News
The quake and a tsunami killed hundreds and left thousands missing, sparking a huge rescue operation. BBC Top Stories
Businesses were also letting employees take time off to search for loved ones missing in the quake and the huge tsunami it spawned. LA Times Business
And as for Japan, he cautions that the country is likely to reduce solar spending in the face of new needs for road and infrastructure repair and other issues created by the quake and tsunami. Forbes Tech 2
A fresh explosion rocked a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant on Tuesday where engineers have been pumping sea water into a reactor to prevent a catastrophic meltdown in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami. Boing Boing
Analysts have said that it will probably cost Japan hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country. BBC Top Stories
Japan warned of an alarming radiation leak from a stricken nuclear power plant and told people nearby to stay indoors to avoid becoming sick in a rapidly escalating national crisis following last week 's earthquake and tsunami. Guardian World
Groups such as World Vision and Baptist World Aid have teams on the ground determining what kinds of experts and supplies will be needed in the recovery from the earthquake and tsunami that struck Friday (March 11). Huffington Post Full Feed
But the Fed has gotten help in pulling interest rates down: Treasury yields have fallen sharply in recent weeks, reflecting a 'flight to safety' by investors frightened by the turmoil in the Middle East and by Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami. LA Times Business
How could anyone with a heart look at the images coming out of Japan, see the suffering, and feel anything but compassion for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami? New York Times, Sports
And in recent days, while most major stock markets around the world have been battered in the aftermath of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, U.S. stocks have held up surprisingly well. LA Times Business
Takahashi, whose family members and friends survived the earthquake and tsunami, has been watching television virtually all evening, every night, as the drama from Japan unfolds on various news networks. LA Times Sports
Looking back, Emiko Chiba has no idea how long her silver Suzuki rode the waves of a giant tsunami or even whether she had trouble breathing inside of it. LA Times World News
So far, most of the television coverage of the tsunami has been intense, thorough and far-reaching, with correspondents reporting around the clock from the worst-stricken areas. NYTimes Front Page
The greatest uncertainty surrounds contamination from the nuclear accident prompted by the earthquake and tsunami. NYTimes Business
Some commodity analysts said it was still too early to tell what the broader economic effect would be from the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and growing nuclear crisis in Japan. LA Times Business
Her house was swept away by the tsunami. LA Times World News
At the same time, survivors of last week's earthquake and tsunami said shortages of food, water, medicine and other essentials were becoming extreme and called government relief efforts woefully inadequate. LA Times World News
As of Tuesday, four nuclear reactors in Japan seem to be in partial meltdown in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami, according to Christian Parenti of the Nation: "One of them, reactor No. 2, seems to have ruptured. The situation is spinning out of control as radiation levels spike. The US Navy has pulled back its aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, after seventeen of its crew were exposed to radiation while flying sixty miles off the Japanese coast. But despite three major explosions--at reactor No. 1, then No. 3, then No. 2--the Fukushima containment vessels seem to be holding. (Chernobyl lacked that precaution, having only a flimsy cement containment shell that collapsed, allowing the massive release of radioactive material.)" Huffington Post Full Feed
It is almost impossible to watch the horrific images from Japan and not think: That could be us, perhaps from something that is as unforeseen here as this level of tsunami was there. New York Times, NY Region
The sell-off easily could continue as gruesome images from Japan's twin catastrophes of earthquake and tsunami fill investors' television screens, and as nuclear experts uncork increasingly ominous predictions of worst-cases scenarios. LA Times Business
The Japan news network NHK, quoting government figures, just reported that 13,400 people are believed to be dead or missing after the catastrophic quake and tsunami struck one week ago. Boing Boing
A week after the deadly earthquake and even deadlier tsunami that have devastated Japan, newly homeless huddle hungry and cold in emergency shelters. LA Times World News
China has joined Germany, France, Russia and other nations now pledging to review their atomic energy programs in the aftermath of the nuclear crisis sparked by Japan 's devastating earthquake and tsunami. LA Times Business
Most of China's new reactors are being constructed along the nation's eastern coast, making them vulnerable to tsunamis, experts said. LA Times Business
Generally speaking, dramatists haven't had much to say about earthquakes or tsunamis, although a good portion of my moviegoing boyhood in the 1970s was spent watching people outrace toppling buildings, occasionally in Sensurround. LA Times Arts and Culture
"The Japan earthquake, tsunami and now the nuclear plant meltdown are putting uncertainties into the equation," said fuel price specialist Bob van der Valk. LA Times Business
Japan's unprecedented multiple crisis of earthquake, tsunami and radiation leak has unsettled world financial markets, prompted international reassessment of nuclear safety and given the Asian nation its sternest test since World War Two. Huffington Post Full Feed
The operation to avert large-scale radiation has overshadowed the humanitarian aftermath of the 9.0-magnitude quake and 10-metre ( 33-foot ) tsunami that struck on March 11. Huffington Post Full Feed
The reactors themselves were not destroyed, so far as we know, or even damaged, by the earthquake and the tsunami (which led some nuclear advocates to argue that the disaster was actually proof of the safety of nuclear power!). Huffington Post Full Feed
Japan, he notes, has been plagued throughout history by volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and invasions. LA Times Health
Japan may need up to five years to rebuild from the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that has caused up to $ 235bn ( £ 145bn ) of damage, the World Bank said in a report. BBC Top Stories
The 11 March earthquake and tsunami, disrupted production networks in the automotive and electronic industries. BBC Top Stories
An 80-year-old woman and her 16-year-old grandson were rescued Sunday after being buried under rubble for nine days after the worst recorded earthquake in Japanese history and a massive tsunami toppled their home. LA Times World News
The increased hopes came after the Tokyo Electric Power Co. indicated it had made progress in restoring electrical power to the facility to restart cooling systems knocked out by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. LA Times World News
The host asks -- America may not have tsunamis, but what about nuclear's vulnerability to earthquakes, terrorism, proliferation, no waste storage facility yet? Huffington Post Full Feed
Japanese soldiers search for still missing people at a building housing a safety and disaster prevention office at Minamisanrikucho, northeastern Japan, on Friday, March 18, 2011, just one week after a devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami. Huffington Post Full Feed
Japanese officials reported progress over the weekend in their battle to gain control over a nuclear complex that began leaking radiation after suffering quake and tsunami damage, though the crisis was far from over, with a dangerous new surge in pressure reported in one of the plant's six reactors. Huffington Post Full Feed
mar 25
Japan was hit by a devastating tsunami on March 11 after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the island nation's coastline. CNN Business
At the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, N.M., attendance jumped about 20 percent on a recent weekend as work continued at the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors after the earthquake and tsunami wiped out power to northern Japan. Chicago Sun-Times
A view shows cars and buildings wrecked by last week's earthquake and tsunami outside Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan March 19, 2011. Toronto Sun News
As Japan struggles to rebuild from the devastating earthquake and tsunami, the U.S. travel industry is bracing for a drop in high-spending tourists from that country. LA Times Business
March retail car sales may be benefitting from the uncertainty about inventory levels caused by production shutdowns after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan "as consumers flock to dealerships to secure their choice of vehicle as availability decreases," he said. LA Times Business
Two weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami plunged Japan into its worst crisis since World War II, local refugee families are starting to see their lives restored to some semblance of a daily routine. Huffington Post Full Feed
Nearly two weeks after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, American donors have contributed more than $161-million for relief efforts, according to a Chronicle tally. Huffington Post Full Feed
Nuclear officials say the leak may have come from pipes or the reactor's pool for storing spent fuel rods, which workers have been struggling to cool since the plant was badly damaged in the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. Guardian World
The figure skating worlds initially were scheduled to be held this week in Tokyo, but Japanese officials said they could no longer serve as host following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent nuclear crisis. Seattle Times full feed
Hundreds of thousands of survivors remain camped out in schools and civic buildings two weeks after the tsunami and earthquake, with the official death toll passing 10,000 people Friday. Seattle Times full feed
Two weeks after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a crisis at a nuclear plant, the government said Friday there is a suspected breach at a reactor, another setback that would mean radioactive contamination at the facility is more serious than once thought. Daily Camera
