Japan Quake

When a massive earthquake destroyed San Francisco in 1906, timber mills in the Northwest went into high gear. They supplied the wood needed to rebuild. Last year, many in the timber industry predicted the Tohoku quake in Japan would cause a jump in northwest lumber exports. But those predictions haven't come true.

HONOLULU — Tsunamis generated by the magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan last March dragged 3 million to 4 million tons of debris into the ocean after tearing…

Worried about radiation from Japan contaminating milk here at home? The Washington state departments of Agriculture and Health say the latest tests show…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-961924.mp3If you’re near the coastline and a major earthquake strikes, the advice as…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-961585.mp3When disaster response in Japan turns to rebuilding, Northwest timber…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-961351.mp3The small amounts of radioactive Iodine-131 found in milk in Spokane has…

There's no end in sight to Japan's nuclear crisis. More radioactive water is leaking from Japan's crippled nuclear complex, and traces of plutonium have…

Odd as it may seem, that’s a big question right now within the aid and development community.By a simple measure of the number of news stories and…

The earthquake, tsunami and radiation leaks in Japan are having a ripple effect on the trans-Pacific seafood trade.In Seattle, Sushi Kappo Tamura chef and…

The nuclear reactor crisis in Japan is prompting more scrutiny of the nuclear power plant near Richland in southeast Washington. Thursday a Seattle-based…