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Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist
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Nov 13, 2009 |
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Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.
Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this week, and NASA satellite data confirmed that the large storm has a huge eye, about 45 miles ...
Steppe change: Mammoths roamed southern Spain
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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Remains of woolly mammoths have been found in southern Spain, proving that the chilly grip of the last Ice Age extended farther south than thought, palaeontologists said on Thursday.
Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand ...
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Russia prepares for volcano eruption
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Jul 23, 2007 |
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Residents of Kamchatka in far eastern Russia are on alert for yet another volcano eruption.
Kamchatka volcano blows its top
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Jul 05, 2007 |
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Klyuchevskoy (pronounced Kloo-shef-skoy), a stratovolcano located in the north central region of the Kamchatka Peninsula, is blasting ash up to 32,000 feet in the air, and has diverted air traffic headed toward ...
Is a Russian peninsula really part of North America?
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May 02, 2006 |
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For many years geologists have harbored a belief that the Kamchatka Peninsula, shrouded in mystery and secrecy on Russia's east coast, actually sits on the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States, ...
Double volcanic eruption in Eastern Russia
Mar 10, 2005 |
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Acquired from orbit 800 kilometres away, this Envisat image shows two volcanoes erupting simultaneously on Russia's snowy Kamchatka Peninsula this week. Located in the Russian Far East, the Kamchatka Peninsula is ...
450 quakes recorded on Russian peninsula
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Oct 26, 2006 |
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An erupting volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula set off as many as 450 earthquakes in the local area on a single day.
Paired earthquakes separated in time and space
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Jan 30, 2008 |
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Earthquakes occurring at the edges of tectonic plates can trigger events at a distance and much later in time, according to a team of researchers reporting in today's issue of Nature. These doublet earthquakes may hold a ...
Cosmos 1 Solar Sail Spacecraft: Update
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Cosmos 1 the first solar sail was launched as scheduled at 19:46 UTC today from the nuclear submarine Borisoglebsk. The three stage separations occurred normally, and 15 minutes after launch a doppler signal was received ...
Superconductor magnet spacecraft heat shield being developed
Nov 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European space agencies and an aerospace giant are developing a new re-entry heat shield that will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the superhot ...
Volna Failure Review Board Reports On Loss Of Cosmos 1
Jul 22, 2005 |
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The Volna Failure Review Board convened by the Makeev Rocket Design Bureau, manufacturers of the Volna launch vehicle, has made its final report to the Russian space agency, Roskosmos, concerning the attempted June 21 launch ...
How Iron Gets into the North Pacific
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Mar 19, 2008 |
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Most oceanographers have assumed that, in the areas of the world's oceans known as High Nutrient, Low Chlorophyll (HNLC) regions, the iron needed to fertilize infrequent plankton blooms comes almost entirely ...
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