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Japan quake causes day to get a wee bit shorter
You won't notice it, but the day just got a tiny bit shorter because of Friday's giant earthquake off the coast of Japan.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2011 |
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Magnitude-6.2 earthquake shakes northern Chile
(AP) -- A magnitude-6.2 earthquake on Sunday shook a northern region of Chile that has felt several frightening but inconsequential tremors in recent days. No injuries and only minor damage were reported.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Strong quake jolts Chile; magnitude 6.8
(AP) -- A magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck central Chile Friday, centered in almost exactly the same spot where last year's magnitude-8.8 quake spawned a tsunami and devastated coastal communities.
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Feb 12, 2011 |
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Swiss collector returns 4 ancient mummies to Chile
(AP) -- A Swiss collector has returned four pre-Columbian mummies to Chile, including two that are believed to be up to 7,000 years old.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 20, 2011 |
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EVALSO: A new high-speed data link to Chilean observatories
Stretching 100 kilometers through Chile's harsh Atacama Desert, a newly inaugurated data cable is creating new opportunities at ESO's Paranal Observatory and the Observatorio Cerro Armazones. Connecting these ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Environmental scandal in Chile
Until recently, the disastrous scale of the threat posed by salmon farms to the fauna and National Park of the Aysen region of southern Chile was entirely unknown. The unexpected discovery was made by researchers ...
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Earthquake in Chile -- a complicated fracture
The extremely strong earthquake in Chile on 27 February this year was a complicated rupture process, as scientists from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences found out. Quakes with such magnitude ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Deadly quakes are coincidence, scientists say
(AP) -- Experts say there is nothing unusual about the latest spate of earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and now Turkey, but their devastating effects illustrate how increased construction up and down the world's fault lines can ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Chile aftershocks could go on for years: scientists
Chileans will be feeling aftershocks from the devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake for months and possibly years to come, scientists said Friday, as three strong tremors rocked the country.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Salt-Seeking Satellite Shaken By Quake, But Not Stirred
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Aquarius instrument, and the Argentinian spacecraft that will carry it into space, the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D), successfully rode out one of the largest earthquakes in recorded ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Scientists say tsunami models should be tested
(AP) -- In the coming months and years, scientists will pore over reams of data from what turned out to be the minuscule tsunami that reached Hawaii on Saturday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Chile quake wave racing to Asia at jet speed: scientist
A tsunami triggered by the powerful quake that rocked Chile was Saturday racing across the Pacific Ocean towards Hawaii and Asia at around 450 miles per hour, a quake expert said.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2010 |
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Chile ditches 90K turkey eggs in swine flu measure
(AP) -- Chilean authorities say they have destroyed 90,000 turkey eggs since swine flu was detected in the birds two weeks ago.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Swine flu tolls leaps past 52,000, 231 dead: WHO
The World Health Organisation on Monday reported a huge leap in the swine flu pandemic toll to more than 52,000 people infected and 231 dead.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 22, 2009 |
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NM farmers work to preserve native chile varieties
(AP) -- Gene Lopez has just finished planting his chile field in the same way he's planted his heat-packed crop for three decades. But as the years pass, there seems to be more immediacy behind each seed he places in the ...
May 11, 2009 |
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