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On February 27, 2010 a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile, causing a lot of property damage and more than 500 casualties. Now, researchers say that they are seeing unexpected effects of the natural disaster.
An analysis of sandy beaches throughout the affected area revealed significant restoration ... |
3 May 2012
07:39 GMT |
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A research team handling the development of an advanced future telescope has just received Critical Decision 1 approval from the US Department of Energy. This means that the project can move forward with devising a schedule, compiling a budget, and creating more in-depth designs.
The announcement was made on April 2... |
27 April 2012
10:07 GMT |
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Today, mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility announced the availability of its Motorola RAZR smartphone on the local market in Chile, on the airwaves of Entel.
The new device packs a thin and lightweight design, while offering great performance capabilities to all users.
The new device comes with a sculpted glass... |
25 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Google is not wasting too much time in the new year and has announced that Chile is the next country to get Street View imagery. In fact, Street View cars are already roaming the streets and paths of several major cities in the country, snapping photos that will be incorporated into Google Maps once they're pr... |
13 January 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Officials with the governing body of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently approved the organization's 2012 spending plan, which certified that construction on the largest telescope in the world will begin next year.
With the necessary funds secured, engineers will begin laying the foundation for th... |
30 December 2011
03:07 GMT |
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Chile's government is keen on reducing energy consumption through a new ingenious method. It wants ties, the mark of every well-dressed businessman to remain in the closet during summer, to limit the usage of air conditioners.
The example is set by Chile's Economy Minister Pablo Longueira. "As economy min... |
27 December 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Next year will see construction work beginning on a road that will connect the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) site at Cerro Armazones with the rest of Chile. In addition, development work will begin on certain high-tech components that will go on the instrument.
At this time, constructing the telescope ... |
9 December 2011
09:26 GMT |
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The Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Tim de Zeeuw, and the Alfredo Moreno, the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, signed a new agreement yesterday, October 13, in Santiago, Chile, regarding the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).
This installation will be the largest, most amb... |
14 October 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Earlier today, officials from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced that the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is finally opened for business, after many years of construction. ESO also released a number of images showing the telescope and its surroundings.
Located 5,000 meters (16,40... |
3 October 2011
10:58 GMT |
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On Wednesday, July 27, the first European antenna built to augment the capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reached its new home, the Array Operations Site.The AOS is located in Chile, where the ALMA site is being constructed. When completed, the Array will be one of the largest and... |
28 July 2011
10:46 GMT |
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According to a new research paper, archaeologists recently discovered the oldest mine in the Americas. The iron oxide mine has been found in Chile, and initial studies estimate its age at around 12,000 years. Details of the discovery were listed in a report published in the June issue of the journal Current Anthropol... |
19 May 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Early in 2010, a massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 struck Chile. The tectonic event may have in the end triggered a large number of tremors as far away as California, thousands of miles north. The tremors it caused were however of a significantly lower magnitude. The Chile event was so powerful that it moved cities... |
2 February 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Yesterday evening, on Sunday, January 2, a large earthquake shook the grounds near the city of Temuco, in Chile. The tremor had an intensity of 7.1 degrees of magnitude of the Richter scale.The devastation struck at 3:20 EST (2020 GMT), but thus far no official reports on casualties or material damages have been made... |
3 January 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Federative Republic of Brazil has signed the formal accession agreement that will open the way for the country to become a Member State of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Once the Brazilian government ratifies it, Brazil will become the fifteenth Member State and also the first one from outsid... |
30 December 2010
08:14 GMT |
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At an altitude of over 18,400 feet (more than 5,600 meters) above sea level, in the Chilean Andes, a new telescope is taking on form, one that will focus its upcoming investigations on scanning the Universe for signs of galaxy and forming, young stars.The facility is being built in northern Chile, and has been dubbed... |
17 December 2010
10:45 GMT |
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The story of the 33 Chilean miners surviving the collapse of a mine for 69 days reached Steve Jobs’ ears who ordered to have an iPod touch sent to each and every one of the survivors as a gift from Apple, according to various sources.Following a herculean rescue operation that’s sure to go down as one of ... |
15 October 2010
05:35 GMT |
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Along the South American Pacific coast biodiversity does not decrease towards the poles, say Steffen Kiel and Sven Nielsen from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU).Normally, biodiversity decreases towards the poles, but fossil clams and snails found in chile, suggest that this does not happen along... |
5 October 2010
08:30 GMT |
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Following an observations campaign that lasted several years, astronomers at ESO finally managed to produce the most accurate and detailed image of the superb spiral galaxy NGC 300.The formation is located relatively close by, in the Sculptor Group of galaxies, and it is widely considered to be one of the most easy-t... |
8 September 2010
08:57 GMT |
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NASA will send this week, a team of four people that will give assistance to the Chilean authorities, in their attempt to rescue the 33 miners, trapped since August 5.Last week, the Chilean government asked NASA for assistance, on ways that the miners could deal with difficult physical and psychological conditions, ... |
31 August 2010
08:09 GMT |
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The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on February 27 this year had far-reaching effects that are only now beginning to show their full extent. Immediately after the natural disaster struck, experts discovered that it had shifted Earth's axis, causing the days to shorten by 1.26 microseconds. It was late... |
30 July 2010
09:31 GMT |
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Officials at the University of Chicago (UC) decided to involve the institution more actively in the construction of the amazing Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). The instrument, scheduled to be completed in Chile in about 7 years, will be one of the largest observatories in the world, and will have the capability to re... |
22 July 2010
03:07 GMT |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) announces that it has just awarded three important Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grants, so that researchers can study the causes and aftermath of the massive, magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on February 27. The data that the new studies will collect will hopefull... |
4 May 2010
04:51 GMT |
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO), the most prolific astronomical organization in the world, has finally decided on a final location to build its newest instrument, the European Extremely Large optical/infrared Telescope (E-ELT). The massive construction's main feature will be a whooping 42-meter-diameter ... |
26 April 2010
13:01 GMT |
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The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on February 27 was recently established to be the fifth-strongest in recorded history, and also one of the most interesting to study, from a geological perspective. It would appear that planetary scientists have a great deal to learn from it, and also from the changes th... |
9 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Officials at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced yesterday that the largest observatory to be built in the world for the foreseeable future, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), would most likely be hosted by Chile. The decision comes as no surprise, given the fact that ESO already has three ... |
5 March 2010
06:34 GMT |
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On February 27, a devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Chilean coastline. The tremor, which was the seventh strongest ever recorded by modern means, could have caused a lot of damage, but fortunately only minimal casualties were recorded, and damage to infrastructure was not considerable. Immediately after... |
3 March 2010
02:58 GMT |
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Soon after the Saturday, February 27 earthquake that struck Chile with a magnitude of 8.8 degrees, experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, began working on a model to determine how the tremor influenced the planet. Their preliminary, rough results show that the ground-shake cause... |
2 March 2010
05:53 GMT |
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When the 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central parts of Chile this Saturday, officials at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) were on their toes in no time. The organization has built three large observatories in the Atacama Desert over the years, all of which may have been endangered by the powerful tremor... |
2 March 2010
02:51 GMT |
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Only a month and a half after a devastating earthquake wreaked havoc in Haiti, another, even bigger, earthquake hit the South American country Chile. While the quake was significantly more powerful than the Haiti one, registering at 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale, it caused significantly less destruction and loss ... |
1 March 2010
06:38 GMT |
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On February 27, a very powerful earthquake struck Chile, killing at least 700 people, and causing important damages to a host of cities. The tectonic event triggered a modest-sized tsunami, which spread throughout the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami warnings were given in 53 countries, but damages were not very significant wh... |
1 March 2010
02:37 GMT |
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The South American nation of Bolivia is pressing ahead with its plans of constructing an underground tunnel through the Arica region of northern Chile. The country has been trying to regain its long-lost access to the Pacific Ocean for more than 100 years, and it would now appear that the goal is closer than ever. Wh... |
5 January 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Engineers dealing with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), currently under construction in the Chilean Andes and the result of an international cooperative effort, announced another milestone in the project, namely the construction and connection of two of the future telescope's antennas... |
7 May 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The Llaima volcano, one of the most active in Chile and South America, erupted again on Friday night, prompting evacuation from areas all around it. Since its large eruption in 2008, the mountain continued to spill out lava and ash on occasions, but the most recent activity was at a large scale, so people had to flee... |
6 April 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Astronomers have managed to discover the first exoplanet that features a mass roughly similar to that of our own planet. The new celestial body, dubbed MOA-2007-BLG-192-L b, was originally believed to weigh 3.3 Earth masses, but new research conducted on the star it orbits proves the old theory wrong. According to th... |
19 January 2009
03:01 GMT |
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Extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, a concept that refers to all planet-like celestial bodies orbiting stars in other systems, are very difficult to observe, and even when the telescopes are pointing in the right direction, it takes a certain amount of luck to spot one. Since the first ever such body was discovered, i... |
15 January 2009
07:40 GMT |
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Although everyone was expecting RIM's latest high-end smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9000, to be first released in Canada (via Rogers), the handset made its debut "a bit" more to the South, in Chile, via Movistar. Thus, Chilean mobile users are the first people in the world to buy the new BlackBerry (only wit... |
5 August 2008
03:56 GMT |
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Ericsson and Napster have signed an agreement with Entel PCS, a leading Chilean mobile operator, in order to launch the first Napster Mobile service in Latin America. Following the agreement, Ericsson will have complete responsibility for management of the day-to-day operations, systems integration and development of... |
4 February 2008
10:59 GMT |
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The Chilean presidency was almost shocked on Monday when some officials tried to access the official website and instead of seeing their content, they loaded the official flag of Peru. In addition, a large message was attached: "Long live Peru," it read according to the Associated Press. The authorities acknowledged ... |
6 November 2007
10:14 GMT |
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