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  • Repair work begins Monday on broken tsunami warning sirens in San Mateo County.
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  • On Monday, crews in San Mateo County will get to work fixing many of the county's broken tsunami warning sirens.
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  • A tsunami warning sign in San Francisco
  • This is Tsunami Awareness Week and experts are watching around the clock for the one that could be coming our way.
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  • A tsunami warning sign in San Francisco
  • This is Tsunami Awareness Week and experts are watching around the clock for the one that could be coming our way.
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  • Japan marks 2 years since quake with silence
  • Japan observed a moment of silence to remember the nearly 19,000 people who died in the earthquake and tsunami two years ago.
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  • Santa visits kids in tsunami-ravaged town
  • The holidays got a little brighter for the kids of a Japanese town ravaged by the deadly 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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  • Santa visits kids in tsunami-ravaged town
  • The holidays got a little brighter for the kids of a Japanese town ravaged by the deadly 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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  • Aftershocks continue to rattle Japan after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the region overnight.
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  • NASA, Carnegie Mellon showcase disaster management technologies
  • A local university is working on next generation technology to develop ways to keep communication going when a disaster strikes.
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  • NASA, Carnegie Mellon showcase disaster management technologies
  • A local university is working on next generation technology to develop ways to keep communication going when a disaster strikes.
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  • Bin in Hawaii confirmed to be Japan tsunami debris
  • A large plastic storage bin is the first confirmed piece of tsunami debris from Japan to arrive in Hawaii.
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  • 300 high school students are in the Bay Area, visiting from the area of Japan hit by last years deadly earthquake and tsunami. Theyre participating in the Tomodachi Summer 2012 SoftBank Leadership Program at UC Berkeley.
  • 300 high school students are in the Bay Area visiting from the area of Japan hit by last year's deadly earthquake and tsunami.
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  • 300 high school students are in the Bay Area, visiting from the area of Japan hit by last years deadly earthquake and tsunami. Theyre participating in the Tomodachi Summer 2012 SoftBank Leadership Program at UC Berkeley.
  • 300 high school students are in the Bay Area visiting from the area of Japan hit by last year's quake.
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  • Researchers concerned about traveling organisms
  • Some Bay Area researchers are concerned about traveling organisms on Japanese tsunami debris.
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  • Acehnese men ride on a motorized pedicab as they evacuate to higher ground after a strong earthquake was felt in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Sumatra island, Indonesia, Wednesday, April 11, 2012.
  • Two massive earthquakes triggered back-to-back tsunami warnings for Indonesia on Wednesday.
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  • A new study shows that giant kelp off the California Coast was contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
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  • People praying in Japan
  • People in Japan are marking the anniversary of the March 11, 2011, disaster that killed just over 19,000 people.
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  • A tsunami warning sign at a Santa Cruz area beach.
  • The effects of that devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan one year ago are still being felt in the Bay Area.
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  • Santa Cruz Harbor
  • The effects of that earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan one year ago are still being felt in the Bay Area.
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  • Woman gives firsthand account of tsunami
  • A woman who was in Japan when the massive earthquake hit a year ago tells us how she escaped the tsunami.
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  • School  visit
  • Some elementary school students in San Francisco got a life lesson this morning -- all the way from Japan.
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  • Survivor shares Japan tsunami video
  • A survivor of last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan caught the deadly disaster on video.
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  • Huge amounts of debris raked away from the Japanese coast by the massive tsunami are bound for the California coastline.
  • Debris raked away from the Japanese coast by the massive tsunami are bound for the California coastline.
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  • Huge amounts of debris raked away from the Japanese coast by the massive tsunami are bound for the California coastline.
  • Huge amounts of debris raked away from the Japanese coast by the massive tsunami are bound for the California coastline.
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  • Crescent City is rebuilding its harbor to withstand exactly the kind of wave that destroyed it last March.
  • Crescent City is rebuilding its harbor to withstand exactly the kind of wave that destroyed it last March.
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  • Crescent City is rebuilding its harbor to withstand exactly the kind of wave that destroyed it last March.
  • Crescent City is rebuilding its harbor to withstand exactly the kind of wave that destroyed it last March.
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  • A tsunami warning sign in San Mateo County.
  • San Mateo County tested their new tsunami warning system Wednesday morning.
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  • A tsunami warning sign in San Mateo County.
  • The San Mateo County coast is quiet once again after tsunami warning sirens went full tilt Wednesday morning.
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  • Driven by the force of a tsunami surge, a loose boat slams into another in the boat basin at Crescent City
  • The Northern California harbor that was heavily damaged by tsunami waves in March is getting $6 million in federal funding to rebuild.
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  • Local residents on Alaskas Aleutian Islands
  • USGS says a magnitude 7.2 earthquake has been recorded in the Pacific Ocean off Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands.
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  • A Japanese naval ship visited San Francisco on a goodwill tour Wednesday.
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  • disaster orphans
  • In Japan, nearly 1,500 children orphaned in the quake and tsunami are learning to live with loss.
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  • anti-nuclear demonstrators
  • Anti-nuclear demonstrators in San Francisco want a well-known California plant to be shut down.
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  • anti-nuclear demonstrators
  • Anti-nuclear demonstrators in San Francisco want a well-known California plant to be shut down.
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  • Natalia Manzurova
  • A Chernobyl survivor's first-hand comparison of what's going on in Japan with what she experienced.
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  • Natalia Manzurova
  • A Chernobyl survivor's first-hand comparison of what's going on in Japan with what she experienced in the Ukraine.
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  • chefs
  • Bay Area chefs are responding in a big way to help raise money for the Red Cross in Japan.
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  • Here is information for the American Red Cross and other organizations donating money to the Japan relief efforts.
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  • More radiation from the Japan disaster was detected in the U.S., but UC Berkeley experts say it is not harmful.
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  • More radiation from the Japan disaster was detected in the U.S., but UC Berkeley experts say it is not harmful.
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  • A state senate committee held a hearing to look at the safety of Californias nuclear power plants.
  • A state senate committee held a hearing to look at the safety of California's nuclear power plants.
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  • A state senate committee held a hearing to look at the safety of Californias nuclear power plants.
  • A state senate committee held a hearing to look at the safety of California's nuclear power plants.
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  • For the first time since the tsunami hit 10 days ago, part of the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor has reopened.
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  • Head of Tokyo power company breaks down
  • The head of the Tokyo Electric Power Company cries at a news conference after government acknowledges nuclear risk.
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  • Sonar equipment used to clean up Santa Cruz Harbor
  • NOAA is using high tech scanning sonar to help identify and clean up debris in the Santa Cruz Harbor.
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  • Sonar equipment used to clean up Santa Cruz Harbor
  • NOAA is using high tech scanning sonar to help identify and clean up debris in the Santa Cruz Harbor.
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  • Price of Prius jumps in wake of Japan disasters
  • The price of a Toyota Prius is jumping up in the U.S. because of the disasters in Japan and halted production.
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  • Price of Prius jumps in wake of Japan disasters
  • The price of a Toyota Prius is jumping up in the U.S. because of the disasters in Japan and halted production.
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  • Some Japanese families arrive at SFO
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection is now testing some cargo and passengers for radiation levels at certain airports.
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  • Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is pictured before helicopters dump water on the stricken reactor to cool overheated fuel rods inside the core Thursday morning, March 17, 2011.
  • Water cannons pressed into service to cool spent rods in Reactor No. 3 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
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