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According to a lead Taiwanese inventor, a research team have managed to create perhaps one of the most important inventions in the history of mankind, a small device that is purportedly capable of detecting earthquakes about 30 seconds before they happen. If their claim turns out to be true, then we could soon see di... |
6 April 2009
05:50 GMT |
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According to new scientific studies conducted on the Midwest seismic fault in the United States, the hole in the ground that has prompted concerns of a catastrophic earthquake sometime this century seems to be actually closing rather than becoming more active. The once-active area, known as the New Madrid fault syste... |
26 March 2009
06:29 GMT |
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I Am Alive is a Ubisoft game first seen at the 2008 E3 videogame expo and described as a survival action title that puts the player in the role of a survivor of a catastrophic earthquake. Development duty was later revealed to be handled not by the Ubisoft team working on Assassin's Creed, as initially thought, ... |
12 March 2009
03:45 GMT |
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On the 26th of December, 2003, the city of Bam, in Iran, was completely leveled my a massive 6.6-magnitude earthquake that struck in close proximity of the residential center. More than 26,000 people lost their lives then, as most of the buildings in the area were knocked down, including schools and hospitals. Now, f... |
5 March 2009
03:06 GMT |
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When you think about the way the planet chooses to drive its continents apart from one another, you're surely thinking thundering sound, catastrophic imagery and, generally, a lot of turmoil. Perhaps even scientists thought the same. This is why the recent event, which literally tears the African continent apart... |
11 December 2008
15:51 GMT |
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A new research performed by Caltech experts indicates that the threat of a major earthquake in the region of one of the world's most active faults located in Sumatra is extremely high. The area has been affected many times by such monster-magnitude events, the most recent having taken place in September last yea... |
4 December 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Recently, a large group of experts led by a team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego managed to perform peta-scale simulations of the internal structure of the planet, breaking various records and barriers in the process. This is supposed to enable seismology experts to devise seismic models of wa... |
29 November 2008
01:21 GMT |
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A new governmental report warns that numerous Southern and Midwestern states, including Illinois, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas, are at significant risk of being severely affected by a potential large-scale earthquake. The states are on top of a high-intensity seismic area,... |
21 November 2008
05:54 GMT |
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The devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck China on May 12 reportedly killed more than 19,000 children and professors, in poorly-built schools across the Sichuan and Gansu provinces. Previous reports by the government attempted to hide the fact that most schools that collapsed had very weak structures, by f... |
21 November 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Indonesia was caught by surprise and largely affected by a massive tsunami wave four years ago, which caused approximately 170,000 people to go missing or to be found dead across the sultanate of the Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, situated on the northern portion of the Sumatra island. As a result, since then, a ... |
11 November 2008
09:24 GMT |
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It appears that two and a half millennia of natural activity were not a problem for the large construction of the Acropolis to withstand, as it successfully faced powerful storms, extreme temperatures, drought, snow and earthquakes. The ruined appearance it has today is rather the work of man than that of nature. Thi... |
6 November 2008
03:38 GMT |
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The fact that earthquakes throw the ground around in all possible directions is old news, especially given the fact that we know some of the largest mountains in the world were formed due to severe seismic activities. However, never in the history of recorded data, has an earthquake, other than Japan's 6.9 Iwate... |
31 October 2008
09:48 GMT |
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A new project with a bold goal has recently emerged: provide several crucial seconds of warning before an earthquake occurs. Following the example of the SETI@home project, the Quake Catcher Network (QCN) also relies on using a wide network of personal computers in order to do the job. The idea was surprisingly inspi... |
31 October 2008
08:15 GMT |
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The Indonesian and Thailand coasts of the Indian Ocean seem to have experienced tragedies like the 2004 enormous tsunami wave that killed in the hundreds of thousands more often than one might believe. Even more than that, this phenomenon could happen regularly, at a rate of 600 years, as the latest studies show. Acc... |
30 October 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Although the birth of an ocean is an extremely rare phenomenon on the largest of historical scales, the geophysics is currently experiencing such an event. Even more dazzling, this occurs in one of the Earth's most inhospitable and arid regions, the Afar Depression in Ethiopia.The African continent is literally ... |
1 October 2008
05:20 GMT |
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On May 12 this year, the 7.9 magnitude Wenchuan earthquake devastated the region along the Longmenshan area close to Chengdu, a city with 11 million inhabitants in the southern center of China. Based on their research, experts in the field claim that it is pretty likely that another major replica is bound to strike a... |
13 September 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Newly discovered geological features, known as 'mud pots', found south of the San Andreas fault and stretching across most of the state of California, US, now confirm a long standing prediction that the famous fault line is indeed much longer than previous evidence seemed to suggest. The finding is detailed... |
30 July 2008
05:42 GMT |
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It will still take a long time before man will be able to predict an earthquake and its force, and science seems to be taking baby steps in this field, albeit when it comes to earthquake predictions any step is a big step. US researchers have recently brought new insight into the dynamics of earthquakes after detecti... |
10 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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The world is still terrified by the earthquake which shook down China on May 12 and scammers, hackers and phishers still want to take advantage of this. Another scam was detected by security company Sophos under the form of a 419 email which asks readers for their money. The only difference from a traditional 419 sca... |
26 May 2008
10:44 GMT |
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According to a new study, the 9.3 magnitude earthquake that took place in the Indian Ocean in late 2004 and that was said to have unleashed the energy equivalent of 1.3 billion tons of TNT, or 100,000 Hiroshima bombs, killing over 225,000 people in the outcome of the resulted tsunami, could have generated other earth... |
26 May 2008
06:09 GMT |
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The disaster that recently struck China has moved and impressed people all over the world, not to mention the Chinese people. But it appears that there's at least one person who was left untouched by the disaster left behind by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, that hit the Sichuan province. A video on YouTube shows... |
22 May 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Since the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China on May 12, hackers, spammers and fraudsters around the world have been attempting to exploit the tragedy in their own unique way: by developing new earthquake-related attacks which could trick vulnerable users and steal their information or get inside their computers. Toda... |
22 May 2008
02:28 GMT |
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It's no wonder that hackers are always out there hunting software vulnerabilities and glitches that would allow them to infiltrate into websites and servers, but when they break into the Red Cross website to steal money going to the Chinese earthquake victims, it's way too immoral. This is exactly what happ... |
20 May 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Following the destructive earthquake which hit China on May 12, the entire web is today commemorating the victims of the tragedy in its very own methods. According to China Daily, China announced three days of national mourning and suspended all entertainment websites from displaying their content on the Internet. Ho... |
19 May 2008
06:28 GMT |
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As we have already informed you, Google has done a good job in providing Google Earth users with information about the latest disasters that struck Asia. Besides the large amount of data meant to inform users about the status of the Myanmar victims, users can also see satellite imagery of China's 7.9 magnitude e... |
19 May 2008
03:56 GMT |
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The damages caused by the earthquake that hit China on May 12 can now be seen on Google Earth, Google's downloadable mapping solution which provides satellite imagery of the entire world. The Mountain View-based company rolled out a new KML file for Google Earth, which shows the first scenes after the 7.9 magnit... |
16 May 2008
05:52 GMT |
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The Sun's outer layer is in a constant turbulent state, creating waves all across the solar surface, making its experience a patchwork pattern of peaks and troughs. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has recently determined that these waves may be created in the outcome of solar flares exploding on the surfa... |
18 April 2008
10:32 GMT |
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Earthquakes are definitely a Japanese thing, so it's only natural for the solution to come from the same place; well, not a solution against the natural phenomenon, but one that can reduce the number of casualties.In this regard, SANYO tries its best into robotic industry and introduces the ultimate bot, which t... |
8 November 2007
04:56 GMT |
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They are as mysterious as the European Atlantis: the submerged stones lying just below the waves splashing on the island of Yonaguni Jima could be the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis, an ancient unknown city sunk by a powerful earthquake about 2,000 years ago. Its main defender is Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at t... |
24 September 2007
04:40 GMT |
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The 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people and left half a million homeless in 12 countries. But a new one could be four times more disastrous, killing over a million people in South Asia's Bay of Bengal, but its date cannot be precisely predicted: it could strike Myanmar and Bangladesh in the next few decades or in... |
6 September 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Since Google introduced the Mapplets technology into the web-based mapping tool, a lot of users created their own maps with different purposes. Either they were showing information about floods or traffic, they were all very useful and kept the main technology - Google Maps in spotlights. Today, Scott Haefner and Din... |
28 August 2007
03:29 GMT |
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Since Google released the My Maps feature that allows users to build their own Google Maps mashups, numerous consumers manage to build more or less attractive maps. Today, a new interesting mashup is published on the Internet and, following the tragedy from Peru where an earthquake made so many victims, it can be ext... |
17 August 2007
04:19 GMT |
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I bet that would not be too happy to experinece a real earthquake. But if you want a blush of adrenaline, you could experience a "life-threatening earthquake" watching a supercomputer-generated, 3-D movie 30 minutes of the first jolt. A digital chain reaction is being developed by researchers at Caltech and the San D... |
1 August 2007
06:22 GMT |
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Earthquakes are some of the nature's most destructive forces and the main problem about them is that we can't really predict when and where they are going to occur next. Of course, there are fault lines and areas where tectonic activity has been recorded for hundreds of years, but we can't say for sur... |
31 July 2007
02:55 GMT |
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Earthquakes are some of the nature's most destructive forces and the main problem about them is that we can't really predict when and where they are going to occur next. Of course, there are fault lines and areas where tectonic activity has been recorded for hundreds of years, but we can't say for sur... |
21 July 2007
04:16 GMT |
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The question is not as silly as it looks, actually. Oscillations are present in many physical processes and sometimes they can have impressive consequences. They occur not only in physical systems but also in biological systems and in human society.For example, earthquakes are one of the most destructive oscillation... |
6 June 2007
06:05 GMT |
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Some of the oldest buildings have curious design solutions to help them defy gravity, like the arches. Modern architects should learn old tricks, since according to modern regulations, such buildings should have collapsed a long time ago.But they didn't. In 1675, Robert Hooke, an English polymath who played an ... |
17 May 2007
08:32 GMT |
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Everybody knows the famous robot dance. Well, it seems that the next generation of bridges will dance on a different beat, the earthquake dance. A group of researchers made up mostly of earthquake engineers at the University at Buffalo and MCEER, funded by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, have reached the c... |
10 May 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Which is the world's tallest building? a) the Empire State Buildingb) the Petronas Towersc) the Sears Towerd) Taipei 101It's d); Taipei 101. The name comes from the fact that it's got 101 stories above ground, but it also has 5 underground. It's located in Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan, Repub... |
7 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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News about earthquakes and the damage they produce are becoming more frequent as the media now reach almost all "four corners" of the Earth. An earthquake is the result of the sudden release of stored energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes may manifest t... |
17 April 2007
02:55 GMT |
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The last one has just occurred in the Solomon Islands, taking with it at least 20 victims. But what's a tsunami?Tsunami ("harbor wave" in Japanese) represents a series of great sea waves provoked by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption and sometimes by the collision of a giant meteor with th... |
3 April 2007
03:31 GMT |
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