2014, Chile's M8.2 quake not 'the big one',

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A man stands among sunken fishing boats April 2, 2014, at the Riquelme Cove, in Iquique, northern Chile, after a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit off Chile's Pacific coast. The quake killed at least six people and generated tsunami waves that may ripple as far as Indonesia.

IQUIQUE, Chile (AP) — Authorities in northern Chile discovered surprisingly light damage and just six reported deaths Wednesday from a magnitude-8.2 quake — a remarkably low toll for such a powerful shift in the Earth's crust.

President Michelle Bachelet declared a state of emergency and was reviewing the damage in Iquique, a northern coastal city of nearly 200,000 people near where the quake struck in the Pacific Ocean. A planeload of 100 anti-riot police was deployed along with 300 soldiers to prevent looting and round up escaped prisoners.

Photos: Chile earthquake triggers tsunami alerts

Thousands of people evacuated from low-lying areas were returning home after a spending a long night outside due to the threat of a tsunami. The government's mandatory order to leave the coast was spread through cellphone text messages and Twitter, and reinforced by blaring sirens in neighborhoods where people regularly practice earthquake drills.

The tsunami lifted fishing boats onto city streets and sunk others in the port of Iquique, but no other major damage from the sea was apparent. Chile's entire coast was initially subject to the mandatory evacuation order, which lasted nearly 10 hours in coastal communitiesclosest to the offshore epicenter.

The shaking that began at 8:46 p.m. Tuesday also touched off landslides that blocked roads, knocked out power for thousands, damaged an airport and started fires that destroyed several businesses. Some homes made of adobe were destroyed in Arica, another city close to the quake's offshore epicenter.

Shaky cellphone videos taken by people eating dinner show light fixtures swaying, furniture shaking and people running to safety, pulling their children under restaurant tables, running for the exits and shouting to turn off natural gas connections.

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People are evacuated from their shelter after a tsunami alarm at Antofagasta city, north of Santiago on the southern Pacific coast, April 1, 2014.

Mining in Chile, which is the world's top copper producing nation, was not affected, althoughworld prices for the red metal jumped as the quake raised supply concerns because most of the Chilean mining industry is in the northern regions.

About 300 inmates escaped from a women's prison in the city of Iquique, forcing the closure of the border with Peru. Several dozen were quickly captured, officials said.

Bachelet, who just returned to the presidency three weeks ago, waited five hours after the quake struck to address her nation. It was not lost on many Chileans that the last time she presided over a major quake, days before the end of her 2006-10 term, her emergency preparedness office prematurely waved off a tsunami danger. Most of the 500 dead from that magnitude-8.8 tremor survived the shaking, only to be caught in killer waves in a disaster that destroyed 220,000 homes and washed away large parts of many coastal communities.

"The country has done a good job of confronting the emergency. I call on everyone to stay calm and follow the authorities' instructions," Bachelet tweeted after Tuesday night's temblor.

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A military convoy travels along a road after a tsunami alarm at Iquique city, north of Santiago on the southern Pacific coast, April 1, 2014.

She put her interior minister in direct charge of coordinating the emergency response, and announced that schools would be suspended in evacuated areas while authorities assessed the damage.

The only U.S. impact might be higher waves Wednesday for Hawaii's swimmers and surfers, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor was centered in the Pacific Ocean 61 miles (99 kilometers) northwest from coastal Iquique. More than 20 significant aftershocks followed, including one of magnitude 6.2.

The quake was so strong that the shaking experienced in Bolivia's capital about 290 miles (470 kilometers) away was the equivalent of a magnitude-4.5 tremor, authorities there said.

But Tuesday night's quake was not the big one seismologists expect eventually.

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"Could be tomorrow, could be in 50 years; we do not know when it's going to occur. But the key point here is that this magnitude-8.2 is not the large earthquake that we were expecting for this area. We're actually still expecting potentially an even larger earthquake," said Mark Simons, a geophysicist at the California Institute of Technology.

Chile is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries because just off the coast, the Nazca tectonic plate plunges beneath the South American plate, pushing the towering Andes cordillera to ever-higher altitudes. Nowhere along this fault is the pressure greater than in far northern Chile, an area known as the "Iquique seismic gap".

The USGS says the seismic gap last saw a major quake in 1877, when a magnitude-8.8 quake unleashed a tsunami that caused major damage along the Chile-Peru coast and fatalities as far away as Hawaii and Japan. Another quake of similar force hit just north of the area in 1868.

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A fire burns at a restaurant after an earthquake in Iquique, Chile, April 1, 2014. A powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile's northern coast Tuesday night.

"This is the one remaining gap that hasn't had an earthquake in the last 140 years," said Simons. "We know these two plates come together at about 6, 7 centimeters a year, and if you multiply that by 140 years then the plates should have moved about 11 meters along the fault, and you can make an estimate of the size of earthquake we expect here."

The latest activity began with a strong magnitude-6.7 quake on March 16 that caused more than 100,000 people to briefly evacuate low-lying areas. Hundreds of smaller quakes followed in the weeks since, keeping people on edge.

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Luis Andres Henao reported from Santiago. Also contributing to this report were Eva Vergara in Santiago, Michael Warren in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru.

'It's gone.' Community copes with deadly mudslide

Volunteers Frank and Rhonda Cook watch as the final body they recovered Sunday afternoon is lifted into a helicopter on the east side of Saturday's fatal mudslide near Oso, Wash.

OSO, Wash. (AP) — First there was a "whoosh." Elaine Young said she thought it might be a chimney fire, a rush of air that lasted about 45 seconds. But when she stepped outside there was ominous silence. Something felt very, very wrong.

And then she saw it. Behind the house, a suffocating wall of heavy mud had crashed through the neighborhood.

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Dark and sticky, the mile-long flow Saturday heaved houses off their foundations, toppled trees and left a gaping cavity on what had been a tree-covered hillside. In the frantic rescue, searchers spotted mud-covered survivors by the whites of their waving palms.

Now, days into the search, the scale of the mudslide's devastation in a rural village north of Seattle is becoming apparent. At least 14 people are confirmed dead, dozens more are thought to be unaccounted for or missing, and about 30 homes are destroyed.

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"We found a guy right here," shouted a rescuer Monday afternoon behind Young's home, after a golden retriever search dog found a corpse pinned under a pile of fallen trees. Searchers put a bag over the body, tied an orange ribbon on a branch to mark the site, and the crew moved on.

It had been stormy for weeks, but warm sunshine offered a false sense of peace Saturday morning as weekend visitors settled into their vacation homes and locals slept in. Then came "a giant slump," said David Montgomery, an earth and space sciences professor at the University of Washington, describing the deep-seated slide resulting from long-term, heavy rainfall.

A scientist who documented the landslide conditions on the hillside that buckled had warned in a 1999 report filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of "the potential for a large catastrophic failure," The Seattle Times reported late Monday.

That report was written by geomorphologist Daniel J. Miller and his wife, Lynne Rodgers Miller, The Times said (http://is.gd/yodBQx). "We've known it would happen at some point," Daniel Miller told the newspaper.

Snohomish County Executive John Lovick and Public Works Director Steve Thomsen said Monday night they were not aware of the 1999 report. "A slide of this magnitude is very difficult to predict," Thomsen told The Times. "There was no indication, no indication at all."

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Brian Anderson, left, and Coby Young search through the wreckage of a home belonging to the Kuntz family on Sunday, March 23, 2014, near Oso, Wash.
Within hours of the mudslide, emergency crews were searching for life in a post-apocalyptic scene, dodging chunks of splintered birch trunks, half-buried pickup trucks and growing pools of water from the now-blocked Stillaguamish River.

Ed Hrivnak, who was co-piloting an aircraft that was first to arrive at the scene, said a lot of the houses weren't buried. When they got hit, "the houses exploded." He said cars were crushed into little pieces, their tires the only signs that they had been vehicles.

He said he saw people so thoroughly covered in mud that searchers could only spot them by the whites of their waving palms. His helicopter rescued eight people, including a 4-year-old boy, who was up to his knees in concretelike compressed mud.

The mud was so sticky, the rescuers were worried about getting stuck so the helicopter hovered about a foot away and the crew chief tried to pull him out. "He was suctioned in that mud so much that his pants came off," Hrivnak said.

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The boy was taken to a hospital and was reunited with his mom. Hrivnak said the boy's father and three siblings are still missing.

Friends and families immediately launched their own rescue missions.

Elaine and her husband, Don Young, picking their way through the devastation, heard tapping, a steady beat. They got closer and realized it was coming from their neighbors' buckled home.

Trapped in an air pocket, Gary "Mac" McPherson, 78, was banging away for help with a loose stick. The Youngs managed to pull him out, but family members said his wife, Linda McPherson, 69, a former librarian and school board member, did not survive.

Rescuers racing in fire trucks and ambulances screeched to a stop at the edge of the mile-square wasteland. Somewhere, someone was crying for help. When a team of firefighters waded chest-deep into the mud, they had to be rescued themselves, and the ground search was suspended overnight Saturday, with the death toll at three.

On Sunday, after geologists deemed the area stable enough to re-enter, another five bodies were found. By Monday, when another six corpses were located, exhaustion and despair were overtaking the early adrenaline and alarm.

Nichole Webb Rivera frantically texted her two adult sons, her daughter and her daughter's fiance in the area to make sure they were OK. She heard back from her sons, but nothing from the other two.

And no one has been able to reach Rivera's parents, who live in a house along the Stillaguamish River, smack in the middle of where the slide came crashing down. Relatives called around, but the somber reality soon set in.

"We've lost four," said Rivera, who grew up in Darrington, a logging town of about 1,400 people just to the east of the landslide.

Rivera has had no official confirmation from authorities. But when she saw an aerial photograph of Saturday's landslide, she knew her parents, Thom and Marcy Satterlee, and her daughter, 20-year-old Delaney Webb, and Webb's fiance didn't make it out.

"It sounds terribly morbid, but looking at it, I'm resigned," said Rivera, 39.

An American flag, salvaged unstained from the wreckage, had been draped over a buckled shed. "The situation is very grim," said Fire Chief Travis Hots, unshaven and with dark circles around his eyes. "We have not found anyone alive on this pile since Saturday."

Chain saws buzzed as friends and families cut toppled houses open on Monday. Buddy, a large chocolate Labrador, was pulled muddy and cut from under the ruins Sunday after a house was cut open. His owner has not been found.

McPherson, still hospitalized, abruptly a widower, asked his nephew Cory Kuntz to see if he could pull anything out of his home.

This March 23, 2014 photo, made available by the Washington State Dept of Transportation shows a view of the damage from Saturday's mudslide in Oso, Wash. At least eight people were killed in the 1-square-mile slide that hit in a rural area about 55 miles northeast of Seattle on Saturday. Several people also were critically injured, and about 30 homes were destroyed.AP Photo: Washington State Dept of Transportation
A view of the damage from Saturday's mudslide in Oso, Wash.
A box of slides, some photos, files and his deceased aunt's wallet piled up. Kuntz glanced at the gap in the roof that his uncle was yanked through. Then he looked out at the confusion of muddy detritus that included the smashed remains of his own home as well.

"When you look at it you just kind of go in shock and you kind of go numb," Kuntz said.

Gail Moffett, a retired firefighter who lives in Oso and works at the hardware store in Arlington, said she knows about 25 people who are missing. Among them, Moffett said, were entire families, including people with young children.

Moffett said some of the people who are missing were working in the area Saturday morning.

"There's so much pain going on in the community right now," she said.

Darlene Elrod stood above the wreckage, scratching her head and just looking and staring in disbelief as she tried to orient herself and point out an entire neighborhood.

"It's gone," she said.

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Mendoza reported from San Jose, Calif. Associated Press writers Phuong Le and Donna Gordon Blankinship in Seattle and Lisa Baumann in Arlington, Wash., contributed to this report.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West cover Vogue magazine, NEW YORK, USA,

This cover image taken by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue shows the April 2014 issue of the magazine featuring Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West's campaign to get fiancee Kim Kardashian on the cover of Vogue magazine has finally paid off. They appear in a photo by Annie Leibovitz on the April issue.

The photo shows Kardashian wearing a white wedding-style dress with West's arms around her. She posted it on her official Twitter and Instagram accounts saying: "This is such a dream come true!!!" West wrote "Thank you @voguemagazine" on his Twitter account.

West has said he believed Kardashian is cover-worthy. In a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest last October, he said "there's no way Kim Kardashian shouldn't be on the cover of Vogue." He also said Kardashian was more influential than first lady Michelle Obama in her clothing choices.

The couple are the parents of 9-month-old daughter North.

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Disney inviting 'small world' sing-along videos, Disney, world, videos,

It's a Small World ride and attraction, Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, California.

NEW YORK (AP) — Disney on Friday launched a website to create a global sing-along for "it's a small world," marking 50 years since the classic attraction with the unforgettable earworm of a song opened at the 1964 World's Fair in New York.

The "it's a small world" ride became a centerpiece of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., in 1966, and the famous song still plays in a continuous loop at "small world" rides in Disney parks.

The new website, http://www.SmallWorld50.com, invites the public to submit videos of themselves singing the song. Fans can also create virtual dolls on the site, mixing and matching faces, clothes and other elements to build a unique avatar-like figure.

Walt Disney wanted the music and lyrics to be catchy and easy for kids to sing, but some adults find the tune inexplicably maddening, lodging in the brain for hours after emerging from the 12-minute boat ride.

The original "small world" attraction was billed in 1964 as "a salute to UNICEF and all the world's children." To mark the 50th, Disney is donating $150,000 to UNICEF and will donate another $1 for each video and doll posted or shared on SmallWorld50.com or related social media, up to $100,000.

The World's Fair opened April 22, 1964 in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens. Its wonders included the culinary marvel "Bel-Gem Waffles," with strawberries and whipped cream; technological innovations like microwave ovens and computers; and exhibits ranging from Michelangelo's "Pieta" in the Vatican Pavilion to Disney's animatronic figure of Abe Lincoln giving a speech.

The fair hosted more than 51 million visitors over two years. A 12-story-tall steel globe called the Unisphere still marks the place where the fair was held in Queens. Local officials also plan activities to commemorate the anniversary of the fair.

The SmallWorld50.com site launched with a video of singers from 25 countries performing the song. On April 10, a live sing-along will be held at Disneyland and Disney World, and will be paired with sing-alongs recorded earlier in the day from other Disney parks, to air on "Good Morning America" along with others singing snippets of the song.

Disney does not capitalize 'it's a small world,' and a photo of a sign for the ride from the '64 fair shows no capital letters were used then either.

conheça os 5 segredos de quem ganha dinheiro com blogs e sites!

Quem cria um site ou blog com o intuito de obter lucro costuma se espelhar em sites de sucesso no intuito de aprender e até de copiar algo. Porém, nada garante que o que funciona para um site funcione para outro. Resolvi fazer este post para mostrar que não se trata de uma fórmula mágica, mas sim de algumas diretrizes básicas que essas “pessoas de sucesso” costumam seguir. Podem até parecer meio óbvias, mas como dizia Nelson Rodrigues “só os sábios enxergam o óbvio”.Vamos aos pontos:

1. Objetivo

Como chegar a algum lugar, se você não souber onde fica? Impossível! Essa frase, do guru da auto ajuda Lair Ribeiro, ilustra bem o que é trabalhar sem um objetivo traçado. Quem investe em um site deve ter em mente onde quer estar daqui a 6 meses, 1 ano, 2 anos. Assim, você saberá se está se aproximando de suas metas ou apenas desperdiçando tempo e esforço. Tenha sempre metas, ainda que sejam curtas, como 2 ou 3 meses.

2. Investimento

Todo projeto de sucesso precisa de investimento. Não estou falando necessariamente de investimento financeiro. Se seus maiores bens são seu tempo e esforço, invista-os. Nada dá certo por acaso. Blogueiros e webmasters que hoje tem uma boa renda dos seus projetos já perderam noites em claro escrevendo artigos ou divulgando seus sites. Qual investimento você tem feito em seus sites ultimamente?

3. Persistência

Aqui devo citar uma frase que você pode achar batida: o único lugar onde “sucesso” vem antes de “trabalho” é o dicionário. Mas sabe por que essa frase é clichê e batida? Simples! Porque é a mais pura verdade!


Quantos webmasters por aí vêem suas visitas empacarem, seus ganhos não saírem do lugar e pensam em desistir após o primeiro ano de trabalho? Uma porrada! Mas os que estão hoje aí ganhando um bom dinheiro todo mês são os que foram em frente e escolheram continuar com seus projetos. Aos que esperam milagres, um aviso: dificilmente vocês ganharão algo substancial antes de 2 anos ou de uns 250 artigos publicados. Portanto, se você pretende progredir nesta área é preciso ser bastante persistente.

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4. Motivação

Fazer o que gosta e ainda ganhar por isso é o sonho de todo webmaster e blogueiro. Assim, se você quer ter um site de sucesso é primordial que o assunto seja algo com que você tenha familiaridade e seja divertido, como um hobby. Se você observar quem lucra com um site, 90% das vezes é algum especialista que gosta bastante do assunto.

5. Marketing

Nenhum site ficará conhecido se não houver uma estratégia de divulgação. Já citei em posts anteriores coisas que você pode fazer para divulgar melhor seu site, e como aproveitar o poder das redes sociais.Visite um site que você considera de sucesso e veja se não existem vários meios de compartilhar o conteúdo? Vá além e pesquise por ele no Google, e certamente você constatará como sua presença é grande, mesmo em outros sites. Participar de eventos também é algo importante para fazer seu site ir para frente.

Conclusão

Como você pôde notar, não existe fórmula mágica para quem quer ganhar dinheiro com sites na internet. Mas com dedicação, persistência e foco é possível obter excelentes resultados.
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Palavras que geram mais receitas no Google Adsense – AdSense, Hosting, Adwords, Capital, Botox, Host

Google Adsense

Todos aqueles que tem um blog ou site por certo já usaram ou usam o Google adsense… É, sem dúvidas, um dos, na verdade, o melhor meio de se ganhar dinheiro na net…

O Google Adsense são aqueles anúncios da Google que aparecem nas laterais dos sites.. A própria Google paga para que você os exiba em seu site. O pagamento varia conforme eles ganham pelo anúncio.

No final das contas você pode ganhar de 0,18 centavos até 50 dólares por um único clique! Sim, sei que parece piada isso! Mas não é!!! Tudo depende de uma continha que a Google faz, que, alias, varia de tempos em tempos, onde cada palavra-chave tem uma cotação diferente.. Ou seja, hoje um clique em palavra chave “dinheiro na net” rende pouco mais de 0,05 cents.. enquanto a palavra Hosting pode render algo por volta dos 20 reais!!

Segundo informações que circulam na net, as atuais 5 palavras mais bem pagas em português são:

AdSense  – Pelo que se percebe escrever sobre o AdSense pode ser rentável. De acordo com valores atualizados em 2012, pode-se atingir R$ 24,21 por CPC;
Hosting – Um termo em língua inglesa, porém de uso tão constante em português que se for dedicado um artigo sobre serviços de hospedagem “hosting” pode-se conseguir R$ 20,75 por CPC;
Adwords – outro tema que pode ser facilmente discorrido sobre ele, valores de até R$ 19,83;
Capital – O sentido desta palavra deve ser ao “dinheiro” e não cidades capitais. Valores de R$ 11,02;
Botox – sites que tratam sobre estética podem facilmente explorar este termo que pode atingir R$ 10,08;
Hosts – Novamente temos aqui um termo relacionado com hospedagem de site. Valor de R$ 9,87;

Agora, em inglês, segundo as fontes isso varia… tem um site especializado nisso que se chama Top Paying heywords, ou algo assim…

Bem fica a diga! Se puderem (lembrando-se sempre que deve estar conexa a seu conteudo) usem bastante as palavras AdSense, Hosting, Adwords, Capital, Botox, Host.*

China investiga possíveis detritos de avião desaparecido, avião, China, desaparecido, investiga,

A China está investigando novas imagens satelitais de detritos encontrados no sul do Oceano Índico e que poderiam ser do voo MH370.

O avião da Malaysian Airlines desapareceu no último dia 8 de março, uma hora após haver deixado Kuala Lumpur, a capital malaia, com destino a Pequim, com 239 pessoas a bordo.

O ministro interino de Transportes da Malásia, Hishammuddin Hussein, afirmou durante uma entrevista coletiva realizada neste sábado que recebera notícias dadas pelo embaixador chinês na Malásia de que a China havia captado imagens de satélite de objetos flutuantes no chamado corredor sul, que se alonga da Indonésia até o Oceano Índico, e que navios seriam enviados à região.

Hussein acrescentou ainda que o governo chinês daria mais detalhes sobre os objetos encontrados ainda neste sábado.

Mas a informação inicial é de que os detritos avistados nas fotos teriam sido achados a 120 quilômetros dos possíveis destroços avistados na última quinta-feira por autoridades australianas a partir de outras imagens satelitais.

A China é um dos 26 países envolvidos na busca do voo MH370. Os passageiros do avião eram em sua maioria chineses.

Possíveis destroços

Aviões e embarcações vem realizando buscas no Oceano Índico após imagens satelitais no início desta semana terem detectado possíveis destroços situados 2.500 quilômetros ao sul da Austrália, mas ainda não conseguiram encontrar os supostos detritos.

As buscas no Oceano Índico estão sendo comandadas pela Autoridade de Segurança Marítima na Austrália (Amsa, na sigla em inglês).

A Amsa enviou seis aviões à região neste sábado, a fim de realizar buscas em uma área que é praticamente do tamanho da Dinamarca.

Navios fornecidos pela China, Japão e Grã-Bretanha deverão se juntar às procuras.

O primeiro avião enviado à região regressou sem ter encontrado quaisquer detritos.

Condições 'desafiadoras'

Durante sua entrevista coletiva, o ministro de Transporte malaio disse que as condições na região são 'muito desafiadoras', com marés altas e um aviso de ciclone tropical que poderá afetar as naves envolvidas nas buscas.

O ministro Hussein também se referiu às demonstrações de ira exibidas por parte de parentes chineses de passageiros da aeronave durante um encontro entre autoridades malaias e familiares realizado em Pequim.

Ele afirmou que o encontro foi 'tenso' e que está sendo realizada uma investigação para melhorar a situação.

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