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"I can immediately go to the photograph, zoom in on it and see what that mass of rock looked like before it failed. That can tell me a lot about why it failed and the mechanism by which it failed," said Stock. "I'm already ecstatic
Click any of the circles on the map below and you'll see many earthquakes hidden in this onslaught. The unmistakable grid pattern looks as though the quakes were deliberately targeted. (what else was competing for news in Reno May 2nd :)
Naica Crystal Caves (PowerPoint file)
12 pictures of sinkholes. They're not something you want in your neighborhood.
We received 10 pictures from a couple on leave in Bavaria. They snapped some pix of Ludwig's castle--the inspiration for Disney's castle in the "Magic Kingdom".
Have ever wondered what the Arab world does with the wealth they accumulate by charging over $90 a barrel for oil?
Lists city rankings in just about any category imaginable.
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CANYON LAKE, Texas — The formation of canyons, done with the flow of water over rock and time, is generally a practice in patience. But not here.
This week, Europe's space agency (Esa) reported that the shrinking of Arctic ice had opened the fabled Northwest Passage, clearing a long-sought, but until recently impassable, route between Europe and Asia.
This week, Europe's space agency (Esa) reported that the shrinking of Arctic ice had opened the fabled Northwest Passage, clearing a long-sought, but until recently impassable, route between Europe and Asia.
A team of scientists will embark on a voyage next week to study an "open wound" on the Atlantic seafloor where the Earth's deep interior lies exposed without any crust covering.
Beneath fast-moving sections of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the continent's own natural plumbing system fills and empties a network of previously unknown subsurface lakes with surprising speed. The movement of water through the lakes might infl
The mystery of why the Himalaya mountains and the Tibetan plateau are the highest in the world has at last been answered, with the discovery of a gigantic chunk of rock slowly sinking towards the centre of the Earth.
MapQuest, a unit of AOL, says it has a fuel-related website that not only can find the cheapest gasoline, but also can locate stations selling obscure, hard-to-find vehicle fuels, such as hydrogen and biodiesel. MapQuest says it has pricing data o
Detailed Map of Iraq
A volcano avalanche in Sicily 8,000 years ago triggered a devastating tsunami taller than a 10-story building that spread across the entire Mediterranean Sea, slamming into the shores of three continents in only a few hours.
South America's winding Amazon River flows in an easterly direction across the continent, dumping water into the Atlantic Ocean. But in eons past, it flowed from east-to-west and, for a time, in both directions at once, a new study finds.
A strong earthquake shook Hawaii early Sunday, jolting residents out of bed and causing a landslide that blocked a major highway. Hundreds of hotel guests and hospital patients were evacuated, and aftershocks kept the state on edge.
First noticed the effect on Sept. 7, 2005 while investigating an unrelated topic. He was in the process of operating a GPS receiver at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico when a solar flare occurred, causing the receiver’s signal to drop significantly
Just some cool pictures to help clear your mind for a little while
Australia was once three continents which collided 1.64 billion years ago, a new study has found, prompting speculation of new mineral deposits in the outback. "Northern, western and central Australia all belonged to different continents,"
At the end of the last Ice Age, the Sahara Desert was just as dry and uninviting as it is today. But sandwiched between two periods of extreme dryness were a few millennia of plentiful rainfall and lush vegetation. During these few thousand years,
California's Sierra Nevada, an impressive mountain range that includes the popular Yosemite National Park, has done a great job of keeping its age a secret. But now a new study provides evidence that it's at least 40 million years old. Sci
A meteor's roaring crash into Antarctica -- larger and earlier than the impact that killed the dinosaurs -- caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history and likely spawned the Australian continent, scientists said.
Demographics
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Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more.
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