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Tongan inspection team heads to undersea volcano (AP)

Tongan inspection team heads to undersea volcano

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga - shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters) into the sky above the South Pacific ...





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Tracking a hot spot

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 17, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Using a state-of-the-art satellite imagery technique, researchers are able to more precisely predict volcanic activity, bringing them steps closer to understanding where an eruption may occur. A new research study, titled ...


Plate tectonics may take a break

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created Jan 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth’s continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair. Scientists have assumed that the shifting of crustal plates has ...


More 20 mph zones in London would prevent 100 killed or seriously injured casualties each year

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

20 mph traffic speed zones reduce casualties by 41.9% with the greatest reduction in child casualties, according to research published today in the British Medical Journal.


Higher incidence of thyroid cancer in volcanic area of Sicily

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People living in volcanic areas may be at a higher risk for thyroid cancer, according to a new study published online November 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.


Camels carry salt in the Ethiopia's Afar Region

Volcanic eruptions may split Africa: scientists

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created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two owing to a recent geological crack in northeastern Ethiopia, researchers said on Tuesday.


Volcano Named Lobster

Active submarine volcanoes found near Fiji

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created Jun 19, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Several huge active submarine volcanoes, spreading ridges and rift zones have been discovered northeast of Fiji by a team of Australian and American scientists aboard the Marine National Facility Research ...


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Germany paves way to offshore wind farms

Technology / Energy

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The German government on Wednesday agreed a plan to set aside special zones off its northern coast for a host of wind farms that could provide energy for more than eight million homes.


Tiny pieces of 'deep time' brought to the surface

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created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Three-billion-year-old zircon microcrystals found in northern Ontario are proving to be a new record of the processes that form continents and their natural resources, including gold and diamonds.


Geologist plans volcano safety for Ecuador

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created Aug 21, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A geologist at Washington University in St. Louis is doing his part to make sure that the small Latin American country of Ecuador follows the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared.


Scientists explain source of mysterious tremors emanating from fault zones

Scientists explain source of mysterious tremors emanating from fault zones

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created Mar 14, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Tiny tremors and temblors recently discovered in fault zones from California to Japan are generated by slow-moving earthquakes that may foreshadow catastrophic seismic events, according to scientists at Stanford ...



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