earthquake drill

• We're All On Shaky Ground

IT TOOK one visit to Japan, a decade ago, to reassess my financial future. It is impossible to travel through the country -- and I have been back three times since -- without becoming very aware of the potential for imminent disaster. Every hotel room contains a torch and details of the earthquake drill. A minor tremor struck while I was in Tokyo. They say on no account to go near the windows, but the instinctive reaction to your possessions doing the Hully Gully is to look out and check what is going on.

• Daily Mail
• March 18, 2011

• Earthquake Alert Just a Drill

An Earthquake disaster will be simulated this week near the origin of one which shook North Lincolnshire in February to test the responses of international emergency services to a natural disaster. Helicopters and sniffer dogs will take part in the joint exercise between French emergency services and the UK's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team.

• Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
• October 08, 2008

• Ucl Scientist's Bid to Predict Earthquakes

A LONDON scientist is carrying out pioneering research to predict natural disasters such as the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Kevin Pickering, professor of earth sciences at University College London, is one of hundreds of scientists working on a project to drill into the earthquake risk zone off the coast of Japan.

• Evening Standard - London
• March 25, 2011

• Trapped in the Rubble for Two Days, I Thought I Was Dead [Ulster Region]

DRESSED in her smart green uniform, pretty 14-year-old Manise Andre gives no clue to her past as she takes part in another evacuation drill at her school. Like thousands of others in the aftermath of the earthquake, Manise - who spent two days trapped under a pile of rubble - lived in one of the tented camps.

• Sunday Mirror
• January 13, 2013

• Trapped in the Rubble for Two Days, I Thought I Was Dead

DRESSED in her smart green uniform, pretty 14-year-old Manise Andre gives no clue to her past as she takes part in another evacuation drill at her school. Like thousands of others in the aftermath of the earthquake, Manise - who spent two days trapped under a pile of rubble - lived in one of the tented camps.

• Sunday Mirror
• January 13, 2013

• Their Wounds Are Deep, Their Losses Beyond Calculation, Their Scars Will Last for Life. But I Know They Will Make It in the End.. I Saw It in an Old Lady's Smile ; Japan's Nightmare

JAPAN has had its heart broken but not its spirit - never its spirit. I glimpsed that spirit in the face of an old woman who was being led away from her home, which no longer existed. The old woman's home had been washed away by the black tide of that murderous water, and now she waited patiently with some small children to be taken to whatever temporary shelter could be found. The old woman was just one of the 600,000 Japanese who find themselves suddenly homeless. The area where she had made her life was gone - a wasteland as blighted as Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombs fell.

... at all in Japan and you experience earthquakes. They are part of the fabric of life. Mostly they ...The Japanese prepare for it - earthquake drill is a part of every school, and skyscrapers are bui...

• Daily Mirror
• March 15, 2011

• Trapped in the Rubble for Two Days, I Thought I Was Dead [Eire Region]

DRESSED in her smart green uniform, pretty 14-year-old Manise Andre gives no clue to her past as she takes part in another evacuation drill at her school. Like thousands of others in the aftermath of the earthquake, Manise - who spent two days trapped under a pile of rubble - lived in one of the tented camps.

• Sunday Mirror
• January 13, 2013

• Opponents Claim 'Fracking' Contaminates Water Supply

THE Echo first revealed plans by Eden Energy and Coastal Oil and Gas to test drill for shale gas in February. In the four months since our report, the issue has become a major issue for residents living near the proposed drill sites.

... over fears it had caused a minor earthquake. Investigations are continuing. Meanwhile, Coastal...

• South Wales Echo
• June 12, 2011

• The Big Bang Theory ; Two Thousand Years Ago Mount Vesuvius Destroyed Pompeii. Today, a Larger, Far More Deadly Supervolcano Lurks On the Other Side of Naples. If It Erupts, Campi Flegrei Could Wipe Out All Life in Europe. So Why Are British Scientists Battling the Italians for the Right to Poke at It with Drilling Rods?

NAPLES, ITALY, THE NEAR FUTURE... It begins with a swarm of 1,000 small earthquakes that ripple under the pavements of Naples. Air-conditioning units fall from the sides of buildings and tiles slip from the walls. Inside the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology's control centre, a bank of screens indicates that the quakes aren't being generated by the giant Mount Vesuvius, which looms over the city.

• Mail on Sunday
• January 02, 2011

• Trapped in the Rubble for Two Days, I Thought I Was Dead [Scot Region]

DRESSED in her smart green uniform, pretty 14-year-old Manise Andre gives no clue to her past as she takes part in another evacuation drill at her school. Like thousands of others in the aftermath of the earthquake, Manise - who spent two days trapped under a pile of rubble - lived in one of the tented camps.

• Sunday Mirror
• January 13, 2013