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CSI: Pisco, Peru -- Study uncovers tectonic events behind earthquake
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2009 |
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A magnitude 8.0. earthquake destroyed 90 percent of the city of Pisco, Peru on August 16, 2007. The event killed 595 people, while another 318 were missing. Tsunami waves were observed locally, off the shore ...
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Newly discovered active fault building new Dalmatian Islands off Croatian coast
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2008 |
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A newly identified fault that runs under the Adriatic Sea is actively building more of the famously beautiful Dalmatian Islands and Dinaride Mountains of Croatia, according to a new research report.
Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky with Extreme Precision
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the ...
Geophysicists revisit 'The Big One,' create new quake model
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Jan 11, 2006 |
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Almost a century after the 1906 earthquake, Stanford geophysicists have revisited San Francisco's "Big One" and now paint a new picture of a fault that was ready to go and that ruptured farther and faster than ...
GOCE Earth explorer satellite to look at the Earth's surface and core
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2008 |
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The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth's gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet – the geoid - with unprecedented resolution and ...
Was Einstein right? Scientists provide first public peek at Gravity Probe B results
Apr 16, 2007 |
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For the past three years a satellite has circled the Earth, collecting data to determine whether two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity are correct. Saturday, at the American Physical ...
Radio astronomers detect 'baby quasar' near the edge of the visible Universe
Jun 06, 2008 |
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An international group of radio astronomers has found an unexpected morphology in the most distant radio quasar ever. This was done using the world's most sensitive network of radio telescopes called the European ...
Scientists deploy seismic network for study of Sierra Negra, Galapagos
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2009 |
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An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Miami (UM), University of Rochester, University of Idaho-Moscow and the Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Politécnica Nacional (Quito, ...
A century after 1906 earthquake, geophysicists revisit 'Big One' and come up with new model
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Almost a century after the 1906 earthquake, Stanford geophysicists have revisited San Francisco's ''Big One'' and now paint a new picture of a fault that was ready to go and that ruptured farther and faster than previously ...
Potential for large earthquake off coast of Sumatra remains large
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2008 |
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The subduction zone that brought us the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami is ripe for yet another large event, despite a sequence of quakes that occurred in the Mentawai Islands area in 2007, according to a group ...
West Antarctic ice sheet may not be losing ice as fast as once thought
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest ...
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