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Japan Earthquake: Robots Help Search For Survivors

    Editor’s Note: This is part of our ongoing news coverage of Japan’s earthquake and nuclear emergency. Japan’s leading experts in rescue robotics are deploying wheeled and snake-like robots to assist emergency responders in the search for survivors of…

Tsunami Expert: More Quakes Expected in Japan.

Geologists suspect that today’s quake was actually an aftershock of a much weaker magnitude-7.2 quake on 9 March. They warn that seismic stress has not yet relaxed in some particularly vulnerable parts of Japan, including the Tokyo region, 400 kilometres…