He said he would take extra budgetary measures in response to the quakes.
Of course, tourist destinations inevitably tack on increased security measures in response to danger.
The State Department has taken several measures in response to the increased level of nefarious activity by the Russian government.
Japan's coastguard said it had not taken any special measures in response to the Chinese patrol boats.
Finally, control measures in response to all technical problems are put forward.
France Télécom, which has 100,000 employees, has announced several measures in response to the suicides, including suspending around 500 employee transfers that are part of a reorganization.
Since his return to the Kremlin in May, Russia's president Vladimir Putin has enacted a series of repressive new measures in response to growing anti-government protests.
"Not going forward with these initiatives," he said, "increases the risk that a country will revert to protectionist measures in response to recession and unemployment".
Apple has taken various measures in response to questions on whether its products are made in sweatshop-like conditions, since about a dozen suicides from 2010 at Foxconn.
European countries were furious at Israel taking punitive measures in response to the UN vote, with one diplomat describing the steps as "cynical", "self-destructive" and "outrageous".
Mr. Bernanke repeated, as he has many times before, that while some of the measures in response to the financial crisis were "distasteful and unfair," they were necessary.
