News About Disaster Management 28-AUG-08 en-us Dujiangyan, China (AFP) Aug 27, 2008 - Parents of children killed when poorly built schools collapsed in China's earthquake remain angry but police intimidation and cash payments have largely quelled their protests, locals said.]]> ]]> Beijing (AFP) Aug 27, 2008 - Twenty people have been confirmed dead after an explosion at a chemical plant in southern China that injured 60 others and forced the evacuation of more than 11,500 people, state media said Wednesday.]]> Dujiangyan, China (AFP) Aug 26, 2008 - More than 100 days after a powerful earthquake devastated much of this region in southwest China, Li Kuilan still faces an uncertain future, having lost her husband and her home.]]> Athens (AFP) Aug 22, 2008 - Japanese scientists will next month look into seismic resistance secrets in the design of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon which has withstood scores of quakes, a senior Greek archaeologist said on Friday.]]> ]]> Miami (AFP) Aug 21, 2008 - Florida Governor Charlie Crist has asked federal authorities to declare his state a disaster area after heavy rains dumped by Tropical Storm Fay, which lingered Thursday over the northern and eastern part of the state.]]> Tokyo (AFP) Aug 19, 2008 - Japan on Tuesday warned users of Apple iPod nanos of a potential fire risk after two new instances in which the popular portable music players overheated.]]> Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Aug 19, 2008 - At least 30 people remain missing in Haiti two days after a truck carrying more than twice that number was swept into a river swollen by Tropical Storm Fay, authorities said Tuesday.]]> SOLAR  ENERGY  SOLUTIONS

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]]> Beijing (AFP) July 30, 2008 - A teacher in southwest China has been sent to a labour camp for publicising photos of school buildings that collapsed in the devastating May 12 earthquake, a rights group said Wednesday.]]> Shanghai (AFP) July 29, 2008 - More than 600,000 people were evacuated as tropical storm Fung-wong made landfall on China's southeastern coast, state media reported Tuesday.]]> Beijing (AFP) July 29, 2008 - China's insurers expect to pay out more than 10 billion yuan (1.5 billion dollars) in claims due to the earthquake in the southwest and blizzards at the start of the year, officials said Tuesday.]]> ]]> ]]> Hachinohe, Japan (AFP) July 25, 2008 - Residents of northern Japan said Friday that careful preparations and lessons learned from previous earthquakes limited the damage caused by the latest major tremor to hit the region.]]> Singapore (AFP) July 24, 2008 - Asia's top security forum agreed Thursday on military exercises aimed at forging a regional taskforce to deal with calamities like those that struck Myanmar and China this year.]]> University Park PA (SPX) Jul 25, 2008 - The May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China was unexpectedly large. Analysis of the area, however, now shows that topographic characteristics of the highly mountainous area identified the mountain range as active and could have pointed to the earthquake hazard. Topographic analysis can help evaluate other, similar fault areas for seismic risk, according to geologists from Penn State and Arizona State University.]]> Advertise in Terra Daily and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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