U.N. inspectors faulted Japan on Wednesday for underestimating the threat of a devastating tsunami on its crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant but praised its overall response to the crisis as exemplary. The preliminary report by a team from the International …
Authorities along the Oregon Coast – from Neskowin to Pacific City – are preparing for one of the largest tsunami drills in history. Evacuation drill spokesman Jim Kusz says that people need to prepare in case a tsunami hits the …
Japan’s government agreed on Friday to set up a fund with taxpayer money to help Tokyo Electric Power compensate victims of the crisis at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant and avoid financial collapse. The government will issue special-purpose bonds to help …
Inside the chunks of slate and wallboard smashed and scattered by Japan’s tsunami hides a health risk that has been overshadowed by contamination from a leaking nuclear plant: the odorless and nearly invisible threat of asbestos. Activists have found the …
Toyota’s car production in Japan plummeted a staggering 62.7 percent in March due to a parts supply crunch following the earthquake and tsunami. Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s top-selling automaker last year, said Monday its domestic production in March was …
Sakuji Funayama watched intently as a giant steel claw tore chunks off the remains of his two-story home, ripped open like a dollhouse by last month’s tsunami and washed up onto a pile of debris. Suddenly, he spied something, waved …
A 72-nation nuclear forum said on Thursday it backed a U.N.- led campaign to strengthen atomic safety in the light of Japan’s crisis and promised to carry out prompt steps as a result. Japan’s month-long struggle to stabilize the Fukushima …
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, a global provider of property, casualty and specialty insurance and reinsurance solutions, announced today that it expects approximately $75 million in losses and loss expenses from the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in …
President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration Friday for areas of Hawaii damaged by the tsunami caused by Japan’s devastating earthquake, an action that enables the state to get federal aid for repairs. The waves caused about $8.5 million in …
A major aftershock rocked northeast Japan late on Thursday and a tsunami warning was issued for the coast devastated by last month’s massive quake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant. The tsunami warning was later lifted and no …