The Prime minister at Fukushima

Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited Fukushima today: Kan praised the workers of Tokyo Electric Power Co. and its subcontractors in the J-Villa...

A Big Pump: The Japanese Need It Worse Than We Do

Generosity, American style: The world's largest concrete pump, deployed at the construction site of the U.S. government's $4.8...

Sarkozy in Japan, Workers for Fukushima

He is the first foreign leader to visit Japan since the earthquake there and he visits with an idea: French President Nicolas Sarkozy...

Afternoon Update

From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page: UPDATE AS OF 12:30 P.M. EDT, FRIDAY, APRIL 1: Japan’s nuclear safety agency has reprimanded ...

No There There in NYT Story

The problem for news reporters is that they pitch a story that sounds promising, but it ends up a wash: there’s no news there. So what does...

The Next Big One

Want to predict the next big earthquake – here or anywhere else? NEARY: Yeah, now, a lot of people feel that in order to be ready for ...

Preliminary Data on the Tohoku Earthquake

Harvard Seismology has put together a fascinating set of maps and preliminary data about the Japan earthquake. All of it is interesting, bu...