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Why Aren't We Afraid Of A Tsunami Hitting San Francisco?

Science When a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's eastern coast early Friday morning, we all feared a tsunami. But San Francisco gets earthquakes all the time, and we're not scared of a...

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3-D Painting Visualizes Earthquakes In Real Time

Science Part painting, part sculpture, Quakescape taps realtime seismological data to create a color-coded visualization of the earth's movements beneath Christchurch, New Zealand. Design student...

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Japan's 2011 Earthquake Happened In An Area Considered Low-Risk. Where's Next?

Science New clues show how the massive Japanese earthquake happened, and how certain faults could pose a previously unrealized threat. The massive earthquake that walloped Japan nearly two years ago...

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Watch The Solomon Islands Earthquake Travel All The Way To Michigan

Science Yesterday's magnitude 8 earthquake sent seismic energy rippling round the world. Nobody in the American midwest felt the massive magnitude 8 earthquake that shook the Solomon Islands, 7000...

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Scientists Will Monitor Seahawks Stadium For Fan-Induced Earthquakes

Environment Earthquake or touchdown? On Saturday, the Carolina Panthers and Seattle Seahawks will meet for a NFC divisional playoff game at CenturyLink Field in downtown Seattle. But while football...

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Earthquake Monitors Used To Decode Massive Ammunition Explosion

Military CSI: Earth Seismometers are used to measure shaking during earthquakes, but they can also measure other kinds of shaking. Seismometers are used to measure shaking during earthquakes, but they...

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Seismologists: North Korea’s Latest Nuke Blast Modestly Bigger Than Their First

Military An incremental increase in power Seismologists compared blast data to older tests. Seismologists compared blast data to older tests.

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How the Apollo lunar modules were smashed for science

From Our Blogs: Vintage Space Each Apollo lunar module cost about $149,000,000. So why were they unceremoniously smashed into the Moon? Each Apollo lunar module cost about $149,000,000. So why were...

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Wait, I Thought We Couldn't Predict Earthquakes

Science Oh, right, we can't Last week, the headlines were particularly frightening. 'Massive Earthquake Along the San Andreas Fault Is Disturbingly Imminent'…

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Geologists think there could be a quadrillion tons of diamonds inside our planet

Science But we’ll never get them out of the ground. In a new paper published this week, an international team of researchers estimates that about 1 to 2 percent of the Earth’s cratonic roots are made...

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