Before the disaster, Japan issued about 1.5 billion in earthquake related catastrophe bonds as a risk management device the debt is canceled if a precisely defined seismic event occurs. This design helped spread the earthquake risk from Japan to foreign investors, who could accept the risk and were enticed by higher expected yields.

The United States Virgin Islands faces recurrent hurricanes and flooding, in addition to being located within an earthquake risk zone.

This all risk policy includes physical loss or damage, including earthquake, flood, boiler and machinery, but excludes terrorism, strikes, riots and commotion.

In September, UNU organized a workshop entitled Urban earthquake risk management preparing for the Big One in Tokyo, with participation by leading experts in earthquake engineering and disaster management, officials from city governments in the capital region and utility company representatives.

Israel s Political Earthquake

The Hamas Earthquake

Earthquake response exercises

Earthquake in Gansu.

Japan s Coming Political Earthquake

What's happening? An earthquake?

32. In 1997, the Insurance Section decided to double the primary coverage from 10 million to 20 million for the earthquake and flood components of the all risk policy.

Indonesia earthquake tsunami hundreds killed

An Earthquake in Chinese Politics?

There was an earthquake yesterday.

Never mind the Chinese earthquake.

Immediately following the earthquake, emergency response efforts were led by the Government and the Iranian Red Crescent, which has significant technical capacity in all aspects of disaster risk reduction and management.

There was an earthquake this morning.

We had an earthquake last night.

The buildings shook in the earthquake.

The tsunami followed a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

That's a Haiti earthquake every eight days.

Big Brother, Tibet, and the Sichuan Earthquake

It was the greatest earthquake on record.

There was widespread panic after the earthquake.

A fire broke out after the earthquake.

Nobody knows when the earthquake will occur.

A big earthquake occurred in India yesterday.

There was a big earthquake last night.

A devastating earthquake hit the state capital.

The consequences of Sendai's earthquake were dreadful!

Isn't it always quiet before an earthquake?

In this connection, a special session on the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, convened at the World Conference to review that disaster from a risk reduction perspective, delivered the Common Statement of the Special Session on Indian Ocean Disaster Risk Reduction for a Safer Future as its outcome.

1 IASPEI Subcommission on Earthquake Prediction, 1991, quot Evaluation of proposed earthquake precursors quot , M. Wyss editor American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., p. 94 and IASPEI Subcommission on Earthquake Prediction, 1997, Special issue earthquake prediction state of the art, M. Wyss and R. Dmowska editors Pageoph v. 149, No. 1, p. 264.

I learned about the Haiti earthquake by Skype.

The water mains burst due to the earthquake.

An earthquake can take place at any time.

The victims of the earthquake disaster are numerous.

When Earth is shaken with her (final) earthquake

When Earth is shaken with her (final) earthquake

This was known as the Earthquake Reconstruction Project.

CAMBRIDGE Financial commentators have likened Japan s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe to derivatives role in the 2008 financial meltdown. The resemblance is clear enough each activity yields big benefits and carries a tiny but explosive risk.

The last year had seen unexpected natural disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami in December 2004 and the Pakistan earthquake in October 2005.

And the earthquake was reported as it was happening.

When the big earthquake occurred, I was just ten.

They had their houses destroyed by a strong earthquake.