Tag: earthquake
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‘Don’t need to buy earthquake insurance’: Rare quake is WI’s second this year
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DOOR COUNTY (NBC 26) — The U.S. Geological Survey reported an earthquake southeast of Sturgeon Bay at 9:18 a.m. Friday morning. The quake registered a 2.9 on the logarithmic Richter scale — an expert says a quake would need to be higher on the scale to be felt by many, or cause damage The quake is the highest…
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Prof. Dutch on earthquake in Japan
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UW-Green Bay Prof. Steve Dutch (Natural and Applied Sciences) gave a detailed explanation to WBAY-TV last Friday about how much an earthquake’s energy grows as it climbs in magnitude. Dutch says as an earthquake grows in magnitude, its strength multiplies significantly. According to the story, the magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan is 900 to 1,000…
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Japanese student at UW-Green Bay reaches family
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Iori Sanda is one of four students from Japan studying at UW-Green Bay. On Friday afternoon she was interviewed by WBAY-TV about the earthquake. “I finally got through on Skype, and they were outside and they couldn’t go home because all the trains were stopped. They were pretty much stuck in the city,” Sanda told…