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Major volcanic eruption feared in Philippines
(AP) -- The Philippines' most active volcano could have a huge eruption within days, officials warned Sunday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. ...
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Dec 20, 2009 |
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Oceanographers image the discovery of the deepest explosive eruption on the sea floor (w/ Video)
Oceanographers using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason discovered and recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor.
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Dec 17, 2009 |
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Pre-eruption earthquakes offer clues to volcano forecasters
Like an angry dog, a volcano growls before it bites, shaking the ground and getting "noisy" before erupting. This activity gives scientists an opportunity to study the tumult beneath a volcano and may help ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Philippine volcano rumbles with fresh explosions
(AP) -- The Mayon volcano, which has blown its top nearly 40 times in 400 years, menaced nearby residents with small eruptions of ash and lava Wednesday as Philippine authorities moved more than 30,000 people ...
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Dec 16, 2009 |
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Yellowstone's plumbing exposed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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A New View of Coronal Waves
(PhysOrg.com) -- The corona is the hot outer region of the sun's atmosphere. The corona is threaded by magnetic fields that loop and twist upwards from the sun's surface, driven by motions of its dense atmosphere.
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago
A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere
(PhysOrg.com) -- Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of ...
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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Volcanic eruptions may split Africa: scientists
Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two owing to a recent geological crack in northeastern Ethiopia, researchers said on Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Previously Unknown Volcanic Eruption Helped Trigger Cold Decade
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Giant impact near India -- not Mexico -- may have doomed dinosaurs
A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Coal-mining hazard resembles explosive volcanic eruption, study shows
Worldwide, thousands of workers die every year from mining accidents, and instantaneous coal outbursts in underground mines are among the major killers. But although scientists have been investigating coal outbursts for more ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Expert: Lift taboo on Earth engineering
(PhysOrg.com) -- The effects of climate change are so uncertain and potentially long-lasting that policymakers should begin examining options that include geoengineering, an area that has so far been off-limits, ...
Sep 23, 2009 |
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'Rosetta Stone' of supervolcanoes discovered in Italian Alps
Scientists have found the "Rosetta Stone" of supervolcanoes, those giant pockmarks in the Earth's surface produced by rare and massive explosive eruptions that rank among nature's most violent events. The eruptions produce ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Victims of Seveso disaster face higher risk from some cancers
People living in the Seveso area of Italy, which was exposed to dioxin after an industrial accident in 1976, have experienced an increased risk of developing cancer. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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