Massive earthquake hits Japan

Vintage Madonna Portraits Finally See Light of Day - JPG News Vintage Madonna Portraits Finally See Light of Day Posted by David Ozanich — 15 Mar 2011 Madonna fans! This one is for you. Out magazine has just published a cache of unseen photographs of the iconic singer taken in 1982 by the photographer Richard Corman. He was 28 and had just finished apprenticing under Richard Avedon when his mother, a casting director, called to say she'd just tested a young woman for the part of the Virgin Mary in "The Last Temptation of Christ" and that he should meet her. 2010 Haiti earthquake The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest Department), approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.[7][8] By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4.5 or greater had been recorded.[9] An estimated three million people were affected by the quake.[10] Death toll estimates range from 100,000[6] to 159,000[5] to Haitian government figures from 220,000[11][12] to 316,000 that have been widely characterized as deliberately inflated by the Haitian government.[4] The government of Haiti estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed or were severely damaged.[13] Many countries responded to appeals for humanitarian aid, pledging funds and dispatching rescue and medical teams, engineers and support personnel. Background Geology

Browse hundreds of great pictures from TED2011 and TEDActive This year at Long Beach, our two official photographers, Robert Leslie and James Duncan Davidson, shot something like 40,000 photos; photographer Michael Brands at Palm Springs turned in another ~7K. (Thank you, burst mode.) TED’s photo editor Mike Femia has been editing things down into two gorgeous photo sets from TED2011 and TEDActive. knoxnews Storms scenes from downtown Knoxville A series of intense storm cells brought multiple tornadoes and damaging hail and lightning across much of East Tennessee on Wednesday, prompting repeated tornado warnings being issued for Knox and surrounding counties throughout the evening. The National Weather Service confirmed two tornados struck near Cleveland, Tenn., including an EF-2 with winds up to 120 mph that injured one person and destroyed three mobile homes along Mt. Zion Road about five miles northwest of town Wednesday morning.

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Tectonic Plates Image provided by USGS. Plate tectonics is the continual slow movement of the tectonic plates, the outermost part of the earth. This motion is what causes earthquakes and volcanoes and has created most of the spectacular scenery around the world. Learn more here. U.S. Coast Guard & Hurricane Katrina, Historical Index Historical Index Overview Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike the United States.

Stunning photos of Japan's earthquake and tsunami A collection of the most compelling images of the aftermath of one of Japan's largest recorded earthquakes Massachusetts tornado survivors grieve losses Tina Susman AP Photo/Elise AmendolaJoe Yarbrough, 12, right, tosses a jacket to his mom, Laura, as they salvage belongings from their home in Monson, Mass. Thursday, June 2, 2011, one day after it was leveled by a tornado. Springfield, Mass. _This isn't Missouri, where TV news shows the wreckage left by the tornado that roared through Joplin. It isn't Alabama, where a deadly twister tore through Tuscaloosa just five weeks ago.

Elegy to a Small Idaho Town: Steve Davis Photographs His Hometown “American Falls seems to be dying a death that is as slow as it is unspectacular.” Steve Davis, 53, is describing the Idaho town in which he grew up. He left when he was 18.