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Stories about: seismic events

Giant Earthquake Risk Looms Over the Andes South America's Andes mountains are subjected to a very high risk of experiencing a massive earthquake, experts say. The magnitude of the tremor would make it about 10 times stronger than any other similar event that took place in the same area ever before. The tremor risk should be shared with the millions of p... 10 May 2011 05:46 GMT Newly Discovered Earth-like Planets Must Also Have Plate Tectonics The search for planets outside the solar system ultimately resulted in the discovery of Earth-like planets, or super-Earth and they are generally rocky planets slightly bigger than our planet, so astronomers are speculating what the conditions on those planets might be like. Harvard scientists suggest that Earth-lik... 22 November 2007 11:14 GMT