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US: M 7.0 Earthquake Hits Northern California, Prompting Tsunami Warning 2

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit near the town of Petrolia in Humboldt County, California, on Thursday, December 5, at 10:44 a.m. local time. The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning, now discontinued, that extended along 500 miles (800 km) of the California and Oregon coasts after the quake.

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US: M 7.0 Earthquake Hits Northern California, Prompting Tsunami Warning

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit near the town of Petrolia in Humboldt County, California, on Thursday, December 5, at 10:44 a.m. local time. The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning, now discontinued, that extended along 500 miles (800 km) of the California and Oregon coasts after the quake.

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Kim Jong Il statue

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Combination photo shows the remodeled statue of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (L) wearing a type of jacket on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on Feb. 10, 2013, compared with one with an overcoat in December 2012.

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Renowned actor Ken Takakura dies at 83

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2011 shows Japanese actor Ken Takakura. Takakura, winner of multiple Japanese Academy Awards and one of the country's most recognized film stars, died on Nov. 10, 2014, at a Tokyo hospital, his office said Nov. 18. He was 83.

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Korean guide on racist slurs

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, shows Choi Sang Hee of South Korea, the first non-Japanese woman to qualify as a guide for an 88-temple pilgrimage course on western Japan's Shikoku Island. In a phone interview on the night of April 10, 2014, regarding the recent posting of racist signs possibly targeting her trail marker stickers on the pilgrimage routes, Choi said she is perplexed by the issue but still loves the Japanese people.

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Kidnapped nuns released in Syria

JUDAYDAT YABUS, Syria - Greek Orthodox nuns speak with reporters at a checkpoint in the town of Judaydat Yabus in Syria on the border with Lebanon on March 10, 2014, after being released by rebels. A group of 16 people, mostly nuns, were kidnapped by rebels in the Christian town of Maaloula, north of Damascus, in December.

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Actor, folk art researcher Shoichi Ozawa dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 1974 shows Shoichi Ozawa singing during a concert at Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo. Ozawa, a Japanese character actor and folk art researcher, died of prostate cancer on Dec. 10, 2012, at the age of 83.

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S. Korean lawmakers head to industrial complex in N. Korea

PAJU, South Korea - South Korean lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties wave in Paju, South Korea, on Feb. 10, 2012, before heading to the joint inter-Korean industrial complex in the North Korean border city Kaesong. It is the first visit to the complex by South Korean lawmakers after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in December 2011.

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Illuminations in Yamanashi

MINOBU, Japan - Sightseers look at illuminated houses in Minobu, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 10, 2011. Residents of two houses in the mountainous town started the illuminations in December 2000 to entertain their grandchildren. The custom, which is observed every December, has spread to 38 houses, drawing visitors from as far away as Tokyo.

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Playwright Kohei Tsuka dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows playwright Kohei Tsuka during an audition of actors for a play in Seoul, South Korea, in December 1998. Tsuka died of lung cancer at the age of 62 on July 10, 2010.

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Hitoshi Ashida

Hidoshi AshidaBorn on Nov. 15, 1887 and died on June 20, 1959. Ashida joined the Foreign Ministry after graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1912 but resigned from the ministry in protest over the Manchurian Incident. Ashida became prime minister on March 10, 1948 but was forced to resign on Oct. 15 of the same year because of being involved in the Showa Denko scandal. In December of that year, Ashida was arrested but finally acquitted in 1958.

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Korea-major drop of Won

Major drop of Korean Won -- Foreign exchange trade was temporarily stopped due to the huge drop of Korean won. (At Korea Foreign Exchange Bank main store in Seoul city, on December 10, 1997)

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Bill Gates in Makuhari Messe

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gives a special lecture on the future of personal computing, in the conference ""Windows NT Internet Solutions Tokyo 1996"". (Picture taken on December 10, 1996)