Earthquakes

Japan: Drillers target earthquake zone

Posted by Jeff from BBC News

"The place we are going to has a history of disastrous earthquakes and tsunami every 100 or 200 years; and these have resulted in the deaths of many people," explained Chief Project Scientist Masataka Kino****a, from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (Jamstec). "There is a strong need in the Japanese community to know what is going on under the sea floor," he told BBC News.

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Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Hawaii - U.S. Life

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Hawaii early Sunday.

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Satellite Data Reveals Gravity Change From Sumatran Earthquake

Posted by Jeff from Science Daily

We are such pawns of the Earth.

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Russian Submarine Launches Russian Microsatellite

Posted by Billbar from Space.com

The satellite carries five scientific instruments - totaling almost 45 pounds - to detect seismic activity and to help determine the tell-tale signs of impending earthquakes and other natural phenomena. Links between the upper atmosphere and seismic activity were first noticed in the 1960s, but hard scientific data was not available until 1979. The Interkosmos 19 satellite detected an unusual low-frequency noise in a large area centered near the epicenter of an earthquake that occurred a few hours later. This finding was later confirmed by other spacecraft.

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Slipping fault may increase quake risk

Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

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