Predicting volcanic eruptions and coping with ash rain
Living alongside active volcanoes in places like Japan, the Philippines and especially Indonesia can be uncomfortable.
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2014
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NASA mission finds widespread evidence of young lunar volcanism
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has provided researchers strong evidence the moon's volcanic activity slowed gradually instead of stopping abruptly a billion years ago.
Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2014
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Violent eruptions in Mercury's past could hold clues to its formation
Volcanoes on Mercury may have been more explosive than previously anticipated, and they may have erupted more recently, as well.
Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2014
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Japan police: Volcanic rocks killed most victims
Doctors have determined that almost all of the dozens of people killed on a Japanese volcano died of injuries from being hit by rocks that flew out during its eruption, police said Thursday.
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2014
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Could there really be such a thing as volcano season?
The Earth seems to have been smoking a lot recently. Volcanoes are currently erupting in Iceland, Hawaii, Indonesia and Mexico. Others, in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, erupted recently but seem to have calmed down. ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2014
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European eyes on a Californian earthquake
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured stunning images of the earthquake that occurred in California's Napa Valley region on August 24, 2014. The earthquake was the largest to rattle northern California in 25 years.
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2014
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Iceland lowers volcano alert to orange
Iceland lowered its alert over the nation's largest volcanic system to orange on Sunday after keeping it for one day at the maximum level amid fears of an imminent eruption.
Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2014
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Meteorite study indicates volcanic activity on early small asteroids
(Phys.org) —Examination of one of the Almahata Sitta meteorites (aka, ALM-A, found in Sudan in 2008) by a team of space scientists working in Germany has revealed a volcanic past. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
Follow the radio waves to exomoons, astrophysicists say
Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have discovered more than 1,800 planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, in recent years, but so far, no one has been able to confirm an exomoon. Now, physicists from The University ...
Astronomy
Aug 11, 2014
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Jeju Island is a live volcano, study reveals
In Jeju, a place emerging as a world-famous vacation spot with natural tourism resources, a recent study revealed a volcanic eruption occurred on the island. The Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 22, 2014
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