News tagged with quake
Scientists say the Big One could be even bigger
The Big One predicted for the San Andreas fault could end up being bigger than earthquake experts previously thought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day.
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Mar 02, 2010 |
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Researchers show how far South American cities moved in quake
The massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, and shifted other parts of South America as far apart as ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Huge undersea mountain found off Indonesia: scientists
A massive underwater mountain discovered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra could be a volcano with potentially catastrophic power, a scientist said Friday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 29, 2009 |
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Northwest at risk of megaquake like one in Chile
(AP) -- Just 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast is an earthquake hotspot that threatens to unleash on Seattle, Portland and Vancouver the kind of damage that has shattered Chile.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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New study suggests how toads might predict earthquakes
The trouble with earthquakes, other than their obvious devastation, is that thus far they have proved to be very nearly impossible to predict, despite considerable effort towards that goal; being able to do ...
Dec 02, 2011 |
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Expert: Wastewater well in Ohio triggered quakes
A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 03, 2012 |
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There's a hole in this possible earthquake pattern
As University of California at Davis physicist and geologist John Rundle ponders the map of recent California earthquakes, he sees visions of a doughnut even Homer J. Simpson wouldn't like.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2010 |
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Massive quake moves NZealand closer to Australia
A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has moved the south of New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists said Wednesday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Are we living in an age of giant quakes?
Searching for patterns in the occurrence of large magnitude earthquakes after a succession of large tremors -- surpassed by the recent magnitude-9.0 quake in Japan -- has researchers wondering if the amount ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 08, 2011 |
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What Happened in Haiti?
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world focuses on the heart-wrenching losses and unbelievable devastation of the recent earthquake in Haiti, researchers at Michigan Technological University, discuss what happened there ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Tremors on southern San Andreas Fault may mean increased quake risk
(PhysOrg.com) -- Increases in mysterious underground tremors observed in several active earthquake fault zones around the world could signal a build-up of stress at locked segments of the faults and presumably ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Study ties oil, gas production to Midwest quakes
Oil and gas production may explain a sharp increase in small earthquakes in the nation's midsection, a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey suggests.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 07, 2012 |
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Japan finishes 'Sky Tree' - world's tallest communications tower
Construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the world's tallest communications tower and second-highest building, finished Wednesday, two months late because of the quake and tsunami that struck Japan last March.
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Tsunami-generating quake possible off Indonesia: scientists
A huge wave-generating quake capable of killing as many people as in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami could strike off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and the city of Padang is in the firing line, a team of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2010 |
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Quake
Quake is a first-person shooter video game that was released by id Software on June 22, 1996. It was the first game in the popular Quake series of video games.
Quake was released just as the Internet was commercially coming of age, and much of its popularity arose because it was one of the few games of its kind playable over the internet rather than just a local network.
For more information about Quake, read the full article at
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