News tagged with plate
New theory on the origin of primates
A new model for primate origins is presented in Zoologica Scripta, published by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The paper argues that the distributions of the major ...
Jan 19, 2010 |
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After Haiti, Worries About Other Big Quakes
In the last several days, while the attention of the world has been focused on the human toll of Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti, scientists have begun to look at the quake's geological toll. What is the danger ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Industry corruption, shoddy construction likely contributed to Haiti quake devastation
The death toll in the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti Jan. 12 is expected to continue to rise in the coming days, likely in large part because of corruption and resulting shoddy construction practices in the poor ...
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Jan 14, 2010 |
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WHOI expert: Haiti quake occurred in complex, active seismic region
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that triggered disastrous destruction and mounting death tolls in Haiti this week occurred in a highly complex tangle of tectonic faults near the intersection of the Caribbean and North American ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Haiti earthquake poses prediction question
(PhysOrg.com) -- Current earthquake prediction methods may need to be revised in the wake of the recent Haiti and Asian earthquakes and tsunami.
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Jan 14, 2010 |
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Killer quake struck just below the surface
The quake that struck Haiti erupted just below the surface on a notorious fault where two plates of the Earth's crust jostle and grind, scientists said.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Swiss and Google reach privacy accord pending verdict
Google has agreed not to put pictures of Switzerland on its "Street View" picture map under a provisional accord to end a privacy battle with Swiss authorities, the government said Friday.
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle
(PhysOrg.com) -- For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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From greenhouse to icehouse -- reconstructing the environment of the Voring Plateau
The analysis of microfossils found in ocean sediment cores is illuminating the environmental conditions that prevailed at high latitudes during a critical period of Earth history.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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New Technology Allows Geophysicist To Test Theory About Formation of Hawaii (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever been to Hawaii, you probably spent your time enjoying the scenery of the beautiful islands, rather than wondering how they got to be there in the first place. But that's just what scientists ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2009 |
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New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones
Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...
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Dec 04, 2009 |
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Superior Super Earths
Super Earths are named for their size, but these planets - which range from about 2 to 10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2009 |
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New Method to Measure Snow, Soil Moisture With GPS May Benefit Meteorologists, Farmers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Spotting evidence of directed percolation
A team of physicists has, for the first time, seen convincing experimental evidence for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of the ways diseases spread through a population ...
Nov 17, 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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