SWITCH: Mobile | ePaper | Subscribe

Homes Rentals Jobs Autos Contests

Tsunami

Japanese tragedy leaves ex-MLBer living day to day

Last updated Friday, March 18, 2011 - 4:15pm

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- His pretty three-bedroom apartment that overlooked Sendai is in shambles. Not that Randy Ruiz plans on returning anytime soon. Fact is, he's not exactly sure what to do, where to go.

Caught in a series of tragic events, the ex-big leaguer who now plays in Japan and his teammates are truly living day to day.

MLB, Earthquake, Japan, Sports, Tsunami, Baseball Read more Comments

Japan crisis intensifies debate over safety of nuclear power

David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers, Rob Hotakainen

Last updated Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 10:45pm

WASHINGTON -- As the nuclear crisis worsened in Japan on Wednesday, China announced it was suspending construction to rethink its designs for nuclear plants, following the lead of Switzerland and Germany.

In Washington, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a proponent of nuclear power, told Congress that the Obama administration wants money to help power companies build from six to eight new plants in the U.S.

And opponents of nuclear power were busy arguing that the health risks facing Japanese citizens are much worse than the public is being led to believe.

Energy, Earthquake, Japan, News, Nuclear, Power, Tsunami Read more Comments

Ishikawa faces torn emotions on golf course

Doug Ferguson, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 4:37pm

PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- Part of Ryo Ishikawa wishes he could fly home to Japan to see his family and find ways to help a country devastated by an earthquake and tsunami and now facing concerns over a nuclear meltdown.

The 19-year-old realizes there is little he can do but try to play his best golf.

Golf, PGA, Japan, Sports, Tsunami Read more Comments

Braving in snow an elderly woman carries water bottles on her bicycle Wednesday, March 16, 2011 in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, five days after an earthquake and a tsunami devastated northeastern coastal towns in Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Life among the ruins 03-16-11

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 2:04pm

Earthquake, Natural disaster, Slideshow, Tsunami, Featured Read more Comments

Teams of government specialists at the emergency rescue headquarters frantically analyze data from the leaked radiation from the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged by last week's major earthquake and following tsunami, Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Fukushima city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Nuclear crisis in Japan 03-16-11

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 10:44am

Earthquake, Nuclear, Slideshow, Tsunami, Featured Read more Comments

(Kyodo News/The Associated Press) A baby is checked for radiation exposure Tuesday following a third explosion at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power complex.

Possibility of nuclear catastrophe raises anxiety about health and social issues

Jessica Miller Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 10:40pm

OGDEN -- With dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a Soma, Japan, nuclear power plant crippled after an explosion and fire, the threat of a nuclear catastrophe along Japan's northeastern coast is very real.

Earthquake, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Tsunami, University of Utah, Utah, Featured Read more Comments

(Photo courtesy of LDS.org) Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, says about 200 LDS missionaries will be moved away from areas of Japan threatened by radiation from damaged nuclear power plants.

LDS Church: Missionaries to be moved from radiation danger in Japan

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 10:33pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday it will move about 200 church missionaries from areas of Japan threatened by radiation from damaged nuclear power plants.

Donations, Earthquake, Japan, LDS Missionaries, Nuclear, Safety, Tsunami, Featured, LDS Church Read more Comments

A baby is checked for radiation exposure level in Nihonmatsu in Fukushima prefecture (state) Tuesday, March 15, 2011 following a third explosion at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power complex Tuesday, March 15, 2011. (Kyodo News/Associated Press)

Japan disaster Day 5 - March 15, 2011

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 2:29pm

Emergency, Disasters, Earthquake, Japan, Natural disaster, Nuclear, Slideshow, Tsunami, Featured Read more Comments

Power cut to 700,000 Japanese homes, businesses

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Last updated Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 3:30pm

TOKYO -- Electricity was cut to hundreds of thousands of homes, businesses and hospitals in the Kanto region Tuesday as rolling power outages went ahead as planned, on the second day of an emergency effort to cope with a massive power shortage.

Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Earthquake, Japan, Tsunami, International Read more Comments

(WALLY SANTANA/The Associated Press) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle sits on end in the destroyed waterfront Tuesday in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, four days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country’s northeast coast.

Roy woman worries about son, daughter-in-law in Tokyo

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Monday, March 14, 2011 - 11:27pm

ROY -- A mother here is concerned for her son and daughter-in-law who now are living in Tokyo.

Earthquake, Japan, Nuclear, Safety, Tsunami, Utah, Weber State University, Featured Read more Comments

Risk of meltdown increases at Japan nuclear reactor

Los Angeles Times, Thomas H. Maugh II

Last updated Monday, March 14, 2011 - 2:47pm

The fuel rods at a third nuclear reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have been fully exposed to air for short periods of time and at least partially exposed for more than three hours, allowing them to heat up and sharply raising the risk of a meltdown, according to officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which owns the plant.

The cooling problems at reactor No. 2 represent the most serious development in the ongoing problems at the nuclear power plant to date, according to nuclear specialist Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Earthquake, Japan, Nuclear, Tsunami, International Read more Comments

FILE PHOTO - In a Jan. 19, 2006 file photo boats line docks that no longer exist in this January 19, 2006 file photo in the Crescent City, Calif. boat basin. Experts say Crescent City is a tsunami magnet due to the formation of the sea floor and the small boat basin. (Josh Jackson/Associated Press)

Crescent City: Tsunami magnet - March 14, 2011

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 14, 2011 - 10:47am

Disasters, Natural disaster, Slideshow, Tsunami, Featured Read more Comments

Tsunami survivors run to the higher place in Minamisanrikucho in Iwate Prefecture upon hearing a tsunami warning Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's northeast coast. (AP Photo/The Yumiuri Shimbun, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto)

Japan earthquake aftermath 03-14-11

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 14, 2011 - 10:30am

Earthquake, Natural disaster, Slideshow, Tsunami, Featured Read more Comments

Calif. port town attracts tsunamis

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 14, 2011 - 11:29am

CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — Since the tidal gauge was installed in the boat basin in 1934, this small port on California's rugged northern coast has been hit by 34 tsunamis, large and small.

Tsunami, National Read more Comments

Japan-based LDS missionaries safe

The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 12, 2011 - 10:46pm

SALT LAKE CITY — LDS Church officials have confirmed that all missionaries serving in Japan have been accounted for following a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that killed hundreds.

Earthquake, Japan, LDS Missionaries, Tsunami, Utah, LDS Church Read more Comments