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Preparing for a seismic disaster
22 May 2012, 4:11 am
Swiss disaster response teams have rehearsed for a scenario in which a major earthquake hits northwestern Switzerland, leaving up to 6,000 people dead, 30,000 missing and over 60,000 injured.
How to Rid the World of the “Element from Hell”
9 May 2012, 12:12 pm
The vast majority of the radioactive plutonium on the planet is man-made—roughly 500 metric tons, or enough to make 100,000 nuclear weapons by the calculations of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. Much of it is the legacy of the nuclear arms race between the U.S. and Russia in the latter decades of the 20th [...]
2010 Chile Earthquake Had Surprising Ecological Effects
4 May 2012, 6:05 am
Long-forgotten coastal habitats reappeared, species unseen for years returned The reappearance of long-forgotten habitats and the resurgence of species unseen for years may not be among the expected effects of a natural disaster. Yet that's exactly what researchers found in a study of the sandy beaches of south central Chile, after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake and devastating tsunami in 2010 ...
First-of-its-kind study reveals surprising ecological effects of earthquake and tsunami
2 May 2012, 7:13 pm
The reappearance of long-forgotten habitats and the resurgence of species unseen for years may not be among the expected effects of a natural disaster. Yet that's exactly what researchers have found on the sandy beaches of south central Chile, after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake and devastating tsunami in 2010. Their study also revealed a preview of the problems wrought by sea level rise -- a ...
New faults, quake risks found in Washington
26 April 2012, 11:57 am
tectonically speaking, there's a lot going on in the Pacific Northwest. From the Cascadia subduction zone, where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is slowly pushing its way underneath the North American plate, to the Seattle Fault, where Native American legends recorded a massive earthquake 1,100 years ago, the region has its fair share of seismic hazards.
New Faults, and Earthquake Risks, Found in Washington
26 April 2012, 9:28 am
tectonically speaking, there's a lot going on in the Pacific Northwest. From the Cascadia subduction zone, where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is slowly pushing its way underneath the North American plate, to the Seattle Fault, where Native American legends recorded a massive earthquake 1,100 years ago, the region has its fair share of seismic hazards.
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Preparing for a seismic disaster - swissinfo
22 May 2012, 3:36 am
“The crust is pretty much critically stressed all the time. The area is tectonically stressed. The area has energy in the earth, we just do not know when it will be released in the next earthquake,” Weimer said. The risk of earthquakes in Switzerland ...
Reykjavik's progress - Irish Times
17 May 2012, 6:23 pm
And what of the music? So much has been written about it in mostly hyperbolic terms – “the sound of shearing glaciers” (BBC Music); “an amniotic cocoon moving tectonically” (Pitchfork); “Birgisson warbles in a falsetto that approximates a ...
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