The Japanese earthquake shook the Earth so violently that it likely moved it from its axis and shortened the day.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
Japanese and Japanese-Americans across the U.S. are mobilizing to send help to their homeland after the unspeakable damage wreaked by one of the worst earthquakes and tsunamis in history.
Palash Ghosh
Mar 15, 2011
The Gold Price dropped 3% to four-week lows vs. a rising US Dollar on Tuesday morning, as world stock-market and commodity prices sank on worsening radiation leaks from north-east Japan's earthquake-hit nuclear plants.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
Tsunami-related damage in Hawaii is estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars, but may climb higher, according to a spokeswoman of the state’s governor Neil Abercrombie.
Palash Ghosh
Mar 15, 2011
The Japanese metropolis of Tokyo, already reeling from reports of higher-than-average radiation levels, was hit by massive tremor. There are also reports of people fleeing Tokyo.
Palash Ghosh
Mar 15, 2011
Nuclear power will continue to be a part of U.S. plans for power generation even as a nuclear crisis unfolds in Japan in which authorities are trying their best to prevent a meltdown at a plant on the nation's eastern coastline, a top official said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
Prices for memory chips are rising as the earthquake in Japan has raised supply chain concerns.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
Low-level radiation has been detected at the US military base in Japan's Yokosuka, BBC said in its live blog on the unfolding nuclear crisis, citing a Reuters report.
Jijo Jacob
Mar 15, 2011
BBC said on Tuesday an email message about the radiation risk in Japan which sent shock waves through much of Asia in the last couple of days is fake, and wrongly attributed to it.
Jijo Jacob
Mar 15, 2011
Oppenheimer lowered its profit forecast on phone giant Nokia as the company is seeing greater than market seasonal weakness in demand in the first quarter of 2011.
Manikandan Raman
Mar 15, 2011
Radiation levels rose in Tokyo and some surrounding areas on Tuesday after the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, according to local governments.
Palash Ghosh
Mar 15, 2011
German economic sentiment fell unexpectedly in March, as the expectations get hit by hawkish stance of the European Central Bank (ECB) and a major earthquake in Japan.
Shankar besta
Mar 15, 2011
Report that a containment system at the bottom of Unit 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi has been breached saw uranium companies' shares to tank on the bourses.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: First Solar, Netflix, MEMC Electronic Materials, U.S. Bancorp, American International Group, Capital One Financial, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Advanced Micro Devices and Jds Uniphase.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Mar 15, 2011
The Japan earthquake and tsunami could result in significant shortages of certain electronic components, potentially causing dramatic price increases, a market reaserch firm said.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has drawn comparisons to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. According to some experts, while they are very different, the consequences could be as bad or worse if authorities in Japan fail to prevent a meltdown.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
The 56-year-old comedian and actor was fired on Monday after he tweeted a series of jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Tuesday that radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere from the Unit 4 reactor at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Jijo Jacob
Mar 15, 2011
An evidently impressed Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has shared an e-mail from a friend who works for Apple in Japan shedding light on the ways in which the tech giant stepped up and helped people caught off guard by Friday's earthquake.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
U.S. stock futures point to a sharply lower opening for Wall Street Tuesday, following slump in European and Asian stock markets amid fears of a nuclear disaster in Japan.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Mar 15, 2011
The March 11 earthquake has plunged Japan into a state of nuclear crisis as fresh reports of blasts at nuclear plants pour in every few hours. The live slideshow contains photos of the blast with details.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2011
Texas Instruments said it expects loss of revenue in the first quarter and second quarter as the Japan earthquake caused substantial damage to its Miho plant in the country.
Manikandan Raman
Mar 15, 2011
