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Indonesia hit by deadly tsunami, volcanic eruption (Update 2)

A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia - spasms from the Pacific "Ring of Fire," which spawns disasters from deep within the Earth.

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created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

First detailed underwater survey of huge volcanic flank collapse deposits

A scientific team led by Dr Peter Talling of the UK's National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is currently aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook to map extremely large landslide deposits offshore from an active ...

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created May 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Cassini Provides Virtual Flyover of Saturn's Moon Titan

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Fly me to the moon"-to Saturn's moon Titan, that is. New Titan movies and images are providing a bird's-eye view of the moon's Earth-like landscapes.

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Genetic analysis shows tortoise species thought to be extinct for 150 years still lives

Dozens of giant tortoises of a species believed extinct for 150 years may still be living at a remote location in the Galapagos Islands, a genetic analysis conducted by Yale University researchers reveals.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Possible trigger for volcanic 'super-eruptions' found

The "super-eruption" of a major volcanic system occurs about every 100,000 years and is considered one of the most catastrophic natural events on Earth, yet scientists have long been unsure about what triggers ...

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created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Tenerife island landscape reveals explosive past

Volcanologists from the University of Leicester have uncovered one of the world's best-preserved accessible examples of a monstrous landslide that followed a huge volcanic eruption on the Canarian island of ...

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created Oct 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Satellite images show eruption on Alaska volcano

(AP) -- A volcano on a remote Alaska island has begun erupting, but poses little danger to people or aircraft, officials said Tuesday.

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created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Unique volcanic complex discovered on Moon's far side

(PhysOrg.com) -- Analysis of new images of a curious “hot spot” on the far side of the Moon reveal it to be a small volcanic province created by the upwelling of silicic magma. The unusual location ...

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created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Neighboring volcanoes on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s Mars Express has returned images of mist-capped volcanoes located in the northern hemisphere of the red planet. Long after volcanic activity ceased, the area was transformed by ...

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created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The three ages of Mars

There is no place on Earth that is a perfect copycat of Mars as it is now, or as it was at any specific point in the past. But scientists suggest Earth has little versions of Mars as it might have been over ...

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created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ten years of Soufriere Hills Volcano research published

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Soufriere Hills Volcano on Montserrat erupted in 1995, and an international team of researchers has studied this volcano from land and sea since then to understand the workings of andesite ...

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created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Indonesia volcano kills 30 including spirit keeper

(AP) -- Rescuers scoured the slopes of Indonesia's most volatile volcano for survivors Wednesday after it was rocked by an eruption which killed at least 30 people, including an old man who refused to abandon ...

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Scientists report new insights into the moon's rich geologic complexity

(PhysOrg.com) -- The moon is more geologically complex than previously thought, scientists report Sept. 17 in two papers published in the journal Science.

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created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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