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6.0 quake off Philippines

1 hour 57 min ago

An aerial view shows shanties damaged by flash floods brought by Typhoon Washi in Cagayan De Oro city, southern Philippines in December 2011.

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Guide to the Grand Canyon

1 hour 57 min ago

WE'VE all seen images of the Grand Canyon in print and on screen, but there is nothing like arriving at the rim and taking it all in the immensity, the depth, the atmosphere and the light.

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Scientists to install first real-time seafloor earthquake...

5 hours 11 min ago

Scientists To Install First Real-Time Seafloor Earthquake Observatory At Cascadia Fault; 'You Have To Have Instruments Out There' Scottish Seal Killings Can And Must End Say Campaigners; 'Indelible Stain' Study Finds Southern Indian Ocean Humpbacks Singing Different Tunes Scientists: 'No Evidence' To Support 'Media' And 'Climate Change' Reports On ... (more)

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Looking into a wild blue wonder

6 hours 16 min ago

The Hope Diamond's 45.52 sparkling, steely blue carats make it the most famous diamond in the world - shrouded in mystery and intrigue since it was pulled out of the ground in 17th-century India.

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Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt

10 hours 26 min ago

Paleogeography during the Permian-Triassic boundary extinction 252 million years ago.

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Earthquake: 3.0 quake strikes near Cartago

February 3, 2012 - 8:58pm

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday evening 18 miles from Cartago, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Budgets, mayoral candidates and an earthquake joke

February 3, 2012 - 4:44pm

But there are the occasional exceptions allowing for moments of levity at the Joint Finance Committee.

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We join STV weatherman Sean Batty on location in Iceland as he films his first TV series

February 3, 2012 - 12:39pm

IT'S -4C, the wind is light and southerly, and conditions are clear. Snow clouds are edging down from the north and the overnight temperatures could plunge to -9C. Sean Batty, STV's most popular weatherman, is in Iceland shivering by the roadside, yards from a massive glacier at two in the morning and a five-hour drive from civilisation.

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Workers from Austintown-based Wildcat Drilling work near Coshocton at ...

February 3, 2012 - 8:34am

Workers from Austintown-based Wildcat Drilling work near Coshocton at a site where Buckeye Brine is installing a brine injection well.

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Utah offers new earthquake hazard maps for Salt Lake County

February 3, 2012 - 4:25am

Utah is selling new maps that show the shaking intensity of earthquakes for the west half of Salt Lake County.

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Exclusive: Daugaard's Oil Plan

February 3, 2012 - 12:15am

For more than a year now, we have been talking about the potential for an oil boom in the northwest corner of South Dakota.

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Oklahomans Encouraged To 'Shake Out' During Drill

February 2, 2012 - 8:16pm

The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Oklahoma Geological Survey want Oklahomans to join a nine-state earthquake drill.

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Concerns grow over volcanic eruptions

February 2, 2012 - 4:01pm

Scientists have known for decades that hidden under those impressive vistas at sites such as Death Valley and Yellowstone National Park are magma pools that under the right conditions can trigger explosive eruptions.

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USGS: 6.2 quake strikes Vanuatu

February 2, 2012 - 11:57am

A shallow 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu late on Thursday, February 02, 2012, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning.

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Powerful earthquake strikes west of Vanuatu, no tsunami alert

February 2, 2012 - 11:57am

Photo by Ron McCann Vale-Former West Lincoln softball standout Ashley Rhyne has announced plans to play for Gardner-Webb Bulldogs this coming season.

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Bulgarian Right Wingers Rise against Fracking Ban

February 2, 2012 - 7:52am

Several MPs with the right-wing Bulgarian Blue Coalition have prepared a draft resolution against the recent ban imposed on the use of hydraulic fracturing in the country.

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Evidence from eruption 3,500 years ago hints volcanoes may give us a...

February 2, 2012 - 3:47am

Blast from the past: Rocks from ancient eruption show volcanoes give us 100 years 'warning' they're going to blow Stones from an eruption 3,500 years ago in Greece hint that magma beneath the ground had been running into the magma chamber for 100 years before a huge eruption.

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Edinger's legacy at Coker is rock solid

February 1, 2012 - 11:32pm

Dr. Fred Edinger, professor of geology at Coker College, reminisces about the first Coker Olympic of Winter held in 1976 as he looks at the coverage in school yearbook that year.

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Rare earthquake rattles Manitoba, Saskatchewan

February 1, 2012 - 7:23pm

A small tremble rippled through at about 2:26 a.m. local time. Data from the United States Geological Service pinned the quake at five kilometres below the surface, and said it reached 3.3 magnitude.

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Musconetcong River group breaks down 2011 flooding in Hackettstown

February 1, 2012 - 3:13pm

Beth Styler Barry, executive director of the Musconetcong Watershed Association, and Robert Reiser, of the U.S. Geological Survey New Jersey Water Science Center, prepare their presentation Tuesday during an association "River Talk" hosted by the Hackettstown Municipal Building.

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