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Posted: 2/7/2013 2:40:43 AM EST
A damaged house is seen after a tsunami hit the Venga village in Solomon Islands February 6, 2013. REUTERS/World Vision/Handout
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Posted: 2/7/2013 2:40:43 AM EST
A partially damaged school is seen after a tsunami hit Lata in Solomon Islands February 6, 2013. REUTERS/World Vision/Handout
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Posted: 2/7/2013 2:40:43 AM EST
The foundation of a house is seen after a tsunami hit Lata in Solomon Islands February 6, 2013. REUTERS/World Vision/Handout
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Posted: 2/6/2013 7:23:49 PM EST
Toppled power lines lay in pools of water following a Tsunami Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013, in Venga, Temotu province, Solomon Islands. The damage seen is part the survey by the assessment crew of the aid organisation World Vision. Solomon Islands authorities say at least four people are missing and presumed dead after an earthquake triggered a tsunami. Waves of up to 5 feet hit the western side of Santa Cruz Island and damaged up to 80 properties. Dozens of aftershocks have followed. Other tsunami warnings are canceled. (AP Photo / World Vision)
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Posted: 2/6/2013 7:23:49 PM EST
In a photo provided by Work Vision, a school is heavily damaged in the area of Lata, Temotu province, Solomon Islands after a powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 generated a tsunami of up to 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) that damaged dozens of homes and left at least four people missing and presumed dead in the South Pacific island chain. (AP Photo/World Vision)
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Posted: 2/6/2013 7:23:49 PM EST
After the house was swept away by a Tsunami, the foundations mark the spot where a home used to be, seen Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013, following a Tsunami at Lata, Temotu province, Solomon Islands. The damage seen is part a survey by the assessment crew of the aid organisation World Vision. Solomon Islands authorities say at least four people are missing and presumed dead after an earthquake triggered a tsunami. Waves of up to 5 feet hit the western side of Santa Cruz Island and damaged up to 80 properties. Dozens of aftershocks have followed. Other tsunami warnings are canceled. (AP Photo / World Vision)
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Posted: 2/6/2013 7:23:48 PM EST
Updates location of epicenter; map locates an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that generated a 0.9 meter (3 feet) tsunami off the Solomon Islands
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Posted: 2/6/2013 7:23:48 PM EST
Debris litters the partially destroyed Lata Airport, Solomon Islands, following a Tsunami Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013. The damage seen is part of a survey by the assessment crew of the aid organisation World Vision. Solomon Islands authorities say at least four people are missing and presumed dead after an earthquake triggered a tsunami, with waves of up to 5 feet hitting the western side of Santa Cruz Island and damaged up to 80 properties. Dozens of aftershocks have followed. Other tsunami warnings are canceled. (AP Photo / World Vision)
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Posted: 2/6/2013 7:23:48 PM EST
In a photo provided by Work Vision, a village is destroyed in the area of Lata, Temotu province, Solomon Islands after a powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 generated a tsunami of up to 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) that damaged dozens of homes and left at least four people missing and presumed dead in the South Pacific island chain. (AP Photo/World Vision)
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Posted: 2/6/2013 7:23:48 PM EST
A badly damaged home is seen Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013, following a Tsunami at Lata, Temotu province, Solomon Islands. The damage seen is part the survey by the aid organisation World Vision assessment crew. Solomon Islands authorities say at least four people are missing and presumed dead after an earthquake triggered a tsunami. Waves of up to 5 feet hit the western side of Santa Cruz Island and damaged up to 80 properties. Dozens of aftershocks have followed. Other tsunami warnings are canceled. (AP Photo / World Vision)
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Posted: 2/6/2013 7:23:48 PM EST
The destroyed Venga village following a Tsunami Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013, in Temotu province, Solomon Islands. The damage seen is part the survey by the assessment crew of the aid organisation World Vision. Solomon Islands authorities say at least four people are missing and presumed dead after an earthquake triggered a tsunami. Waves of up to 5 feet hit the western side of Santa Cruz Island and damaged up to 80 properties. Dozens of aftershocks have followed. Other tsunami warnings are canceled. (AP Photo / World Vision)
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Posted: 2/6/2013 12:03:27 AM EST
Map locates an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that generated a 0.9 meter (3 feet) tsunami in the Solomon Islands;
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Posted: 1/18/2013 1:08:35 PM EST
People walk along the sidewalk past the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Like about a third of city’s 180 hotels that rent rooms by the hour, mostly for amorous rendezvous, the Shalimar is trading its oversized beds and bondage-ready chairs for proper couches, functional desks and other business-friendly furnishings. The goal is reinvention as a standard pay-by-the-day tourist hotel, after the government slashed property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Posted: 1/18/2013 1:08:35 PM EST
An iron chain-strewn chair decorates the Medieval Room at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. With the arrival of next year’s World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games to this seaside city, local officials are scrambling to bridge a chronic hotel bed shortage so severe that during a UN conference here last year, the mayor had to appeal to residents to open their apartments to visitors. The plan? Slash property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Posted: 1/18/2013 1:08:35 PM EST
Paintings of knights and noblemen unlocking women's chastity belts decorate the wall of the Medieval Room at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. With the arrival of next year’s World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games to this seaside city, local officials are scrambling to bridge a chronic hotel bed shortage so severe that during a UN conference here last year, the mayor had to appeal to residents to open their apartments to visitors. The plan? Slash property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Posted: 1/18/2013 1:08:35 PM EST
A newly remodeled room is seen at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Like about a third of city’s 180 hotels that rent rooms by the hour, mostly for amorous rendezvous, the Shalimar is trading its oversized beds and bondage-ready chairs for proper couches, functional desks and other business-friendly furnishings. The goal is reinvention as a standard pay-by-the-day tourist hotel, after the government slashed property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Posted: 1/18/2013 1:08:35 PM EST
A hotel worker makes the bed inside the Medieval Room, where chains hang on the wall, reflected in the mirror at left, at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. With the arrival of next year’s World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games to this seaside city, local officials are scrambling to bridge a chronic hotel bed shortage so severe that during a UN conference here last year, the mayor had to appeal to residents to open their apartments to visitors. The plan? Slash property taxes for love hotels, known as “motels” in Portuguese, that agree to tone down the decor and free up 90 percent of their rooms for the tsunami of visitors expected to flood the city. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Posted: 1/5/2013 8:33:26 AM EST
Charles Bingham heads back home with his cats after a tsunami warning was canceled early Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, in Sitka, Alaska, following a magnitude 7.5 earthquake. (AP Photo/Daily Sitka Sentinel, James Poulson)
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Posted: 1/5/2013 8:33:26 AM EST
People gather at Sitka High School early Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, in Sitka, Alaska, following a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and after a subsequent tsunami warning was declared for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline. The alert was canceled when no damaging waves were generated. (AP Photo/Daily Sitka Sentinel, James Poulson)
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Posted: 12/29/2012 2:18:17 AM EST
A worker checks radiation level over a press bus at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear power plant in Ota, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. A massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, swamped parts of the Fukushima plant, disabling backup systems and triggering radiation-spewing meltdowns that forced tens of thousands of people to flee. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, Pool)
