natural disasters
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Here Comes The Great Hard Drive Shortage Of 2011
Apple, Dell and other hardware manufacturers are bracing this quarter for an expected hard drive shortage after heavy flooding in Thailand has claimed another tech victim at the world’s largest hard drive supplier.
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Watch Washington Monument Shaking Like Beyonce’s Behind
The National Park Service has released a video that shows how the top of the Washington Monument looked from the inside during the August 23 earthquake. Obviously, there was a lot of shaking and people running around.
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Japan’s Clearing Away Its Earthquake Wasteland
Sure, there’s an enormous area around the Fukushima plant that’s still horrendously irradiated. But for the rest of country ravaged by the March 11 earthquake, cleanups are restoring order to what looked like the apocalypse this spring.
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Virginia Nuclear Power Plant Didn’t Take The Earthquake Too Well
Things could have been more dramatic during the August 23 US east coast earthquake. Not Fukushima level bad, but bad. 25 of 27 spent uranium casks were shaken up to four inches off their place. Apparently, the quake “potentially exceeded” the plant’s design.