News tagged with west coast
Quake warning system for West Coast nears reality
The devastating 1868 Hayward fault earthquake in Northern California shook loose the first plausible idea for warning people of imminent ground shaking.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2011 |
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West coast log, lumber exports in first 9 months of 2011 surpass 2010 totals
Log and lumber exports from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska in the first three quarters of 2011 already surpass the total exports of 2010 according to the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Coasts' best protection from bioinvaders falling short
Invasive species have hitchhiked to the U.S. on cargo ships for centuries, but the method U.S. regulators most rely on to keep them out is not equally effective across coasts. Ecologists from the Smithsonian Environmental ...
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Nov 04, 2011 |
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East vs. West quakes: Way different creatures
(AP) -- The East Coast doesn't get earthquakes often but when they do strike, there's a whole lot more shaking going on. The ground in the East is older, colder and more intact than the West Coast or the ...
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Aug 24, 2011 |
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Jaded West Coast chuckles over East Coast quake
Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling and books stopped thumping to the floor, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side ...
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Aug 24, 2011 |
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Why East Coast earthquakes travel so far
A rare 5.8 earthquake that rattled the eastern United States on Tuesday was felt over a wide area from Toronto, Canada down to Georgia due to the hard, brittle quality of the ground, experts said.
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Aug 23, 2011 |
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Earth from space: African gem
(PhysOrg.com) -- This Envisat image shows southern Namibia and northern South Africa on Africa's lower-west coast.
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Aug 15, 2011 |
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After a three-decade hiatus, sea-level rise may return to the west coast
The West Coast of North America has caught a break that has left sea level in the eastern North Pacific Ocean steady during the last few decades, but there is evidence that a change in wind patterns may be ...
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May 11, 2011 |
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Invasive Parasite Spreading Among West Coast Estuaries
(PhysOrg.com) -- A parasitic isopod that scientists identified five years ago has all but decimated mud shrimp populations in coastal estuaries ranging from British Columbia to northern California - with the ...
Feb 26, 2009 |
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