earthquake

  1. Disneyland Tokyo during earthquake

    Disneyland Tokyo I always feel safe when I go to Disneyland CA. I feel like nothing bad can happen, there are no bad people, the rides never break, no one could ever be hurt. Disney does a great job giving all its parks that illusion, because bad things do happen even at the “Happiest place on earth”  Rides do break and I personally know of one case of food poisoning and I won’t say who-but I will tell you it was a cast member of Connectzone. Disney Tokyo is still closed from damage sustained on the March 11 Tohoku Pacific Earthquake with no reopen date announced.  There is not much information about what damage occurred or if anyone was injured. What I can say in the true spirit of Disney that even during the earthquake
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  2. Is a earthquake coming to the west Coast of USA?

    Things that make you go hmmmmm Geologist Jim Berkland believes there is a way to predict earthquakes, some people think he is a kook others think he is onto something and I am on the fence. He did predict the 1989 World Series Quake and got suspended from his job at Santa Clara County Office of Geology. Why is this important to Connectzone.com you may wonder? In a recent Fox News interview he predicts a large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest between March 19th and 26th 2011. Connectzone is located in the Pacific Northwest that’s why it is important. While I am skeptical, I am not so skeptical that I didn’t buy some extra water at the store today. His theory is based on fault lines (duh), and syzygy of the moon. In layman’s

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  3. Radiation To Hit West Coast By Thursday-What Should We Do?

    The short answer is nothing. There is not one respected agency telling us anything to indicate there is an emergency or that there will be harm to health. I am pretty sure there is no worldwide cover up and I am a firm believer in conspiracies! The wind is blowing this way and there may be a small bit of radiation-but not enough to be harmful. Even if there were a harmful radiation cloud traveling to the West Coast there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. All the potassium iodide is flew off the shelves days ago so if you have a lot of nervous energy and feel like you must do something-think global and act local.

    1. Check the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
    2. In an emergency local telephone lines are often too busy to use. Designate a friend or relative living somewhere else for you and your family to report in with in case of emergency.
    3. Make an escape
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  4. Who Rescued Who?

    Stories are surfacing today about the rescue teams summoned to Japan to search for survivors of the ever growing catastrophe. Some of these team members seem unlikely heroes.  A large number of the team’s members were themselves homeless, alone and no doubt broken hearted. Someone at some point had stopped caring about them yet somehow in their big, dumb canine hearts they didn’t give up instead, they gave back. Joe, an eight year old yellow lab was rescued by the Longmont Humane Society and went on to receive training from Disaster Search Dog Foundation. Pearl, another rescue dog has worked in Haiti and has had a book written about her and illustrated by a second grade class. The organization Search Dog Foundation has also deployed

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  5. A Silver Lining for Japan?

    You are probably struggling as am I to find something good about the disaster in Japan. My silver lining is this-humanity. Amidst human greed, materialism, self-absorption and consumption, I sometimes find it hard to find a reason to believe in the human race. Today I found some hope and something that speaks volumes about Japanese culture. In the United States-if there is a hint of a snow storm, everyone goes to the grocery market and buys out the bread isle. Unrest in the Middle East leads to car bombs, road side bombs, killing. Riots in Los Angeles lead to looting, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans lead to looting on a shocking scale. In the middle of possibly the worst recorded earthquake resulting in a tsunami and the melt down of nuclear plants-not to mention it is winter and about to snow on all these displaced people-there is no panic. Hysteria and pandemonium are not wreaking havoc. In fact quite the opposite. As people are passing each other on the street-they are not saying

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  6. Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse for Japan...

    Just when you would be tempted to think that things couldn’t get worse for Japan-it does. Never mind the continued aftershocks from Friday’s 8.9 earthquake. Let’s overlook the painfully frequent tsunami sirens warnings after every aftershock. Oh and add to that rolling blackouts of power, lack of water, food shelter, 3 nuclear reactors on the verge of melt down and last but certainly not least-loss of life. Now it’s going to snow? The weather predictions indicate just above freezing temperatures as well as freezing precipitation that could trigger mudslides.  Mudslides of course are not a concern in the lowlands affected by the tsunami-but in the high lands where the earthquake may have shifted or loosened soil. It is hard to fathom that parts of a country as proud and powerful as Japan could be brought to its knees in a matter of minutes. It is hard to imagine what or how long it will take for them to recover.

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  7. Tsunami Hitting Maui & West Coast of US

    Eddie would go? Eddie Aikau was a legend on the North Shore of Oahu. He rescued people out of water no one else would go in, he would surf waves no one else would ergo the saying “Eddie would go”. Since 1970 this saying has been part of Hawaiian Pop culture. There are variations like “Eddie wouldn’t tow” referring to the practice of jet skis towing surfers onto waves of the likes seen at JAWS. Then there is “Eddie wouldn’t crow” meaning don’t be a boastful and egotistical surfer. As we all know there was a devastating earthquake in Japan – well I guess yesterday now. The world has been watching the effects of the resulting tsunami. With all the sophisticated warning systems in place not to mention common sense-someone in Humboldt CA has been swept out to sea while taking pictures. I bet by the end of the day-someone somewhere will try to surf the tsunami. Except you
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  8. Earthquake hits Japan

    Earthquake Japan Update 1:00 PM PST: Next Stop South America Hawaii and greater North America seem to have emerged from today’s tsunami warnings relatively unscathed-so far a few broken boats here and there and minor shore front flooding. But the wave is still on the move and with little to slow it down combined with some very impoverished communities; it could mean the disaster continues. Industrialized nations such as Japan have engineers who design buildings with earthquakes in mind. Places like Hawaii and much of the coast of North America have early warning systems and evacuation routes, most of underprivileged South America does not. Coastal areas of Chile’s Easter Island have been evacuated and the people on the Galapagos Islands were ordered to take higher ground while tour ships moved toward deeper water. The waves generated by the tsunami are expected to reach Easter Island about 3:47 EST. Tour boats in the Galapagos have been instructed
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