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When it rains, it pours. August tends to be a slow month for tech news. As the month began, it looked like this year would follow the trend as tech bloggers and reporters wait for the inevitable plunge toward the holiday shopping season. But some recent events really generated a lot of news in the technosphere. So much news, in fact, that I need to summarize several stories to catch up.
When natural disasters happen, they affect more than the victims in the impacted area. We’re all witness to constant media coverage complete with photos and video of the event and its aftermath. Naturally, Japan’s earthquake, aftershocks and tsunami have everyone talking — including children. What can you do to alleviate the fear and worry your child may have when confronted with something like this?
Youtube’s top videos on Japan’s earthquake and tsunami
by Marshall Brain | March 15, 2011
If you look at the top videos on YouTube today, a large number of them have to do with Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. These are shocking videos of an immense disaster. I am recording them here as a historian might – a year from now it will be more difficult to find these videos and [...]
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan is an immense natural disaster. Engineering practices in Japan to a great extent prevented any major building damage from the quake itself, but the subsequent tsunami wreaked havoc. And the biggest havoc it wreaked, by far, was on Japan’s nuclear reactors. If you live outside Japan, you may be [...]
In today’s eathquake and tsunami in Japan, the tsunami was caused by the rise of a tectonic plate under the ocean. Tectonic plates are huge, and if they move upward by several feet it displaces a gigantic amount of ocean water – many cubic miles of water. As the water hits shorelines, the size of [...]
This is a stunning achievement. In China they have completely built a 15-story apartment building in just 6 days. This time-lapse video tells the tale: Even more amazing is the level of greeness. From the description: Level 9 Earthquake Resistance: diagonal bracing structure, light weight, steel construction, passed level 9 earthquake resistance testing 6x Less [...]
Earthquakes are an inevitable part of living on Earth, and some places are far more prone to earthquakes than others. In this episode, Robert and Allison tackle the idea that California might sink into the ocean due to the San Andreas fault.
Centuries before the European Renaissance, Zhang Heng had all the makings of a Renaissance man. Learn how this statesman, scholar and inventor invented the first seismometer in this podcast.
“Hope for Haiti” Benefit Concert to Air Friday
by Charles W. Bryant | January 21, 2010
If you’re a child of the ’80s like yours truly, then USA for Africa, “We are the World” and Live-Aid hold a pretty special place in your memory bank. Seeing the world and, in this case, the music community rally around a cause can help restore one’s faith in humanity. Whether it’s starvation in Africa or the days following 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, the Asian tsunami or what Haiti is currently experiencing, humans coming together in a time of need is a beautiful thing.
Photos that are coming in from Haiti show the level of destruction that occurs when an earthquake hits a city not designed to handle earthquakes. The last photo in this package, of the former U.N. building, is especially unnerving. It is easy to understand how the U.N. lost so many staff members after seeing that [...]
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