News tagged with samoan islands
Samoan Tsunami wave was 46 feet high
(AP) -- The tsunami that killed more than 200 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga earlier this year towered up to 46 feet (14 meters) high - more then twice as tall as most of the buildings it slammed into, scientists ...
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Dec 04, 2009 |
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Major quakes can weaken seismic faults far away, scientists say
(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion of California's famed San Andreas ...
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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Removal of invasive tree improves health of American Samoa forests
Removal of the Tamaligi tree (Falcataria moluccana), an invasive and destructive non-native tree on Tutuila Island, American Samoa greatly improves the health of its diverse native forests, according to a recently publis ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Small nations push climate at Commonwealth talks
Pacific island and other small countries being punished by global warming will use a Commonwealth summit this week to ramp up pressure on powerful nations in the climate change debate.
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Deep history of coconuts decoded
The coconut (the fruit of the palm Cocos nucifera) is the Swiss Army knife of the plant kingdom; in one neat package it provides a high-calorie food, potable water, fiber that can be spun into rope, and a ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Study reveals potential evolutionary role for same-sex attraction
Male homosexuality doesn't make complete sense from an evolutionary point of view. It appears that the trait is heritable, but because homosexual men are much less likely to produce offspring than heterosexual men, shouldn't ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Chinese-American and Korean-American women at highest risk for diabetes in pregnancy
More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 16,000 women in Hawaii that appears in the December issue of ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Samoan tsunami was too close to prevent deaths: research
(PhysOrg.com) -- Samoa's tsunami detection, monitoring and warning system works well and could not have prevented the more than 100 deaths caused by the devastating tsunami that hit the region on September 29, a major international ...
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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Community education and evacuation planning saved lives in Sept. 29 Samoan tsunami
Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Australian continent to blame for Samoa, Sumatra quakes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent earthquakes in the Pacific and Indonesia have one University of Queensland researcher questioning whether the two are related.
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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Report finds troubling health trends in California's Asian, Pacific communities
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report by UCLA researchers reveals higher-than-average rates of cancer, childhood obesity and diabetes, and an alarmingly high population of the uninsured, among California's Asian American, Native ...
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Researchers witness natural selection at work in dramatic comeback of male butterflies
An international team of researchers has documented a remarkable example of natural selection in a tropical butterfly species that fought back - genetically speaking - against a highly invasive, male-killing ...
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Jul 12, 2007 |
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