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Magmatically triggered slow earthquake discovered at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2008 |
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From June 17-19th 2007, Kilauea experienced a new dike intrusion, where magma rapidly moved from a storage reservoir beneath the summit into the east rift zone and extended the rift zone by as much as 1 meter.
Lake Okeechobee at risk in hurricanes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2006 |
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Scientists say New Orleans is most vulnerable to hurricane storm surge-caused loss of life and property damage of all U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast areas.
African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled ...
'Blue energy' seems feasible and offers considerable benefits
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Generating energy on a large scale by mixing salt and fresh water is both technically possible and practical. The worldwide potential for this clean form of energy - 'blue energy' or 'blue electricity' - is enormous. However, ...
Study uses satellite imagery to identify active magma systems in East Africa's Rift Valley
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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A team from the University of Miami, University of El Paso and University of Rochester have employed Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) images compiled over a decade to study volcanic activity ...
Tsunami Invisibility Cloak
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Rather than building stronger ocean-based structures to withstand tsunamis, it might be easier to simply make the structures disappear.
Weaknesses in dikes detected by space tech spin-off
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 04, 2009 |
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A company from one of ESA's Business Incubation Centres has used space technology to develop a scanner to spot weaknesses in dike structures. It is being used to inspect dikes and dams on the Danube river ...
Alaska's Mount Redoubt has another large eruption
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Mount Redoubt volcano had another large eruption Saturday after being relatively quiet for nearly a week.
Eastern Aral Sea has shrunk by 80% since 2006: ESA
Jul 10, 2009 |
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The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday.
2 small eruptions occur at Alaska volcano
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted at least twice Wednesday as officials from a pipeline company assessed conditions at a nearby oil storage facility to determine whether to remove its contents.
Experts fear impacts of quake on San Francisco Bay Delta
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 17, 2006 |
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A magnitude 6.5 earthquake could severely damage the San Francisco Bay Delta levee system and cut off vital water supplies for millions of Californians, according to findings presented by a panel of experts ...
Hydrogen ions caught in the act of wandering
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Oct 05, 2005 |
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Erik T.J. Nibbering of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) and colleagues report for the first time experimental evidence of the motions of hydrogen ions (protons, H+) from acids ...
Dutch build more dunes against rising seas
Nov 20, 2009 |
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On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.
Feds ignored Medicare scam warnings for years
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show.
The method of repairing Cadiz's walls has hardly changed since the 17th century
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 11, 2009 |
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In the year 1596, a sacking at the hands of the Count of Essex almost destroyed the city of Cadiz. Since then, authorities have focused their efforts on establishing a barrier between the city and the sea, ...
