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Geotimes June 2004 Sara Pratt |
Why the Wobble? A new study says that the shifting of masses of water and ice around the globe's surface primarily drives the seasonal wobbleon its axis. The finding could lead to new ways to monitor global change. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
BusinessWeek March 17, 2011 Jonathan Tirone |
Searching for Clues Along the Ring of Fire Japan's earthquake will generate aftershocks for years, producing data that may yield insights about the quake-prone Pacific Rim. |
Insurance & Technology April 5, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell |
Recent Natural Catastrophes Should Alert U.S. Insurers to Dangers Experience with seismic events mitigated the human and property toll of the February Chile earthquake -- lessons that should inform insurers' planning in parts of the U.S. |
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone? |
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
Scientific American March 2005 Madhusree Mukerjee |
The Scarred Earth Tsunami-spawning quake leaves geophysical changes. |
Science News March 29, 1930 |
TimeLine: Mar. 29, 1930 Wanted: Early Planet Photographs... Additional Observations... |
Scientific American September 2008 David Appell |
The Sun Will Eventually Engulf Earth--Maybe Researchers debate whether Earth will be swallowed by the sun as it expands into a red giant billions of years from now |
Insurance & Technology January 13, 2010 |
Haiti Quake Caused by Caribbean Fault Earthquakes don't occur as often in the Caribbean as they do on land but the quake that hit Haiti Tuesday was not unprecedented, scientists say. |
Science News September 20, 2003 |
More Mars -- Better than Ever On Aug. 27, Mars and Earth were closer to each other than at any other time in the last 50,000 years. Even as Earth and Mars slowly draw apart, the Red Planet remains a dazzling sight in the night sky. There's still time to take in the view. |
Geotimes December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Natural Hazards Drilling a fault... Mount St. Helens awakens... Reviewing Sumatra... SAFOD crosses the fault... |
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Bolivian Earthquake Strikes Deep A magnitude-6.9 earthquake rumbled through Bolivia and northern Chile yesterday. No immediate deaths or damage were reported, although people evacuated their homes. |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2007 Rich Smith |
Quick Take: Mission to Mars? Aim Higher It's time to kick the space race into higher gear. European Southern Observatory's telescope in La Silla, Chile, has identified a planet circling the red dwarf star Gliese 581 as capable of supporting life. |
AskMen.com |
Earth-Like Planet Found Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand -- if only it weren't so broiling hot. |
Geotimes June 2005 Megan Sever |
Quake Shakes Chile A magnitude-7.8 temblor rocked northern Chile and was felt throughout parts of Peru and Bolivia, including in the capital city of La Paz, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The quake was centered in the remote and mostly unpopulated northern Andes region of Tarapaca. |
Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Seismic Warnings Researchers suggest that the first few seconds of an earthquake have the potential to reveal the final size that an earthquake will grow to be -- with implications for how earthquakes physically unfold. |
Geotimes June 2006 Jennifer Yauck |
Confirming a Chinese Earthquake Prediction Now, after gaining access to formerly classified Chinese documents and key people involved with the 1975 earthquake prediction process, a team of scientists has reconstructed this important event and concluded that earthquake prediction, though challenging, is not impossible. |
Geotimes November 2005 Sara Pratt |
Super-Rotation for Earth's Core A new earthquake study supports the 1996 finding that Earth's inner core is spinning faster than the planet's mantle and crust -- at a rate detectable on human timescales, but about one-third of the rate first suggested. |
Geotimes March 2004 Mark Zoback |
Earthquake Prediction and the Developing World The toll from the Iranian earthquake in December -- at least 30,000 dead and an estimated 40,000 homeless in just a few seconds -- is difficult to comprehend. Unfortunately, we can predict with reasonable certainty that sometime in the next few years, in a country with buildings unprepared to withstand disaster, a catastrophic quake will happen again |
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever |
Faster Tsunami Warnings with GPS Time is of the essence when a giant earthquake strikes, especially underwater. Now, a team of researchers says that they have found a new way -- using GPS -- to more quickly determine if the quake is large enough to produce an ocean-wide tsunami. |
Outside August 2008 Victor Paul Borg |
Seeing Red Want to get beyond your misconceptions of long-vilified, suddenly mourned, ever-important China? Then go. |
Science News January 8, 2005 |
Tsunamis and Other Natural Hazards The "Natural Hazards" section of NASA's Earth Observatory Web site has many orbital images of tsunami damage resulting from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that occurred near Indonesia. |
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Super-Size Quake California fell into the sea during a television miniseries aired by NBC. In addition to the other faulty geologic premises of the melodrama, one elemental error is the size of the earthquake that spawned the miniseries' disasters. |
Fast Company June 2012 |
Apple Makes More In A Second Than Most People Do In A Day This month the arbiters of time at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service add an extra "leap second." It's unnoticeable to most, but not these companies. Here's how much they earn every single second. |
TIME Asia March 28, 2011 Nancy Gibbs |
The Day the Earth Moved The 9.0 quake that hit Japan on March 11 was powerful enough to shift the earth on its axis and make it spin a little faster, shortening the day by 1.8 millionths of a second. |
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever |
Quake strikes Central California The U.S. Geological Survey received more than 9,000 reports from people who felt the quake, from Sacramento to Los Angeles. |
Geotimes March 2005 Sara Pratt |
Quake Uplifted Japan A large 17th-century earthquake comparable in size to the Dec. 26 Sumatra quake was responsible for pushing up land in Japan, according to new research based on the sediment record of a large tsunami. |
Popular Mechanics October 5, 2009 Amber Angelle |
Earthquake Research Digs Deep to Find Timely Warning System Right now, the best that seismologists can do to "predict" earthquakes is to send out a warning immediately after activity is detected. |
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Shift in Chile's Seismic History New research documenting tsunami deposits in the Nazca plate region is resetting the seismic clock. |
Geotimes July 2007 |
Geophysicist Ross Stein Like all who study earthquakes, Ross Stein doesn't want to just understand them - he wants to anticipate them. |
National Defense September 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Scientists Say They Are Closer Than Ever to Predicting Earthquakes Researchers have discovered that there are warning signs that can be detected in the weeks and hours prior to temblors. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Bleier & Freund |
Earthquake Alarm Impending earthquakes have been sending us warning signals -- and people are finally starting to listen. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2010 Christopher Barker |
Chilean Earthquake Shakes Up Copper Making sense of the aftermath for Chilean miners. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Alberto Enriquez |
Early Warning For Earthquakes Although evidence that electromagnetic events precede quakes is mounting quickly, the main theory to explain that evidence has had a gash in it the size of the San Andreas Fault. Teasing out the physics behind radio anomalies. |
Geotimes January 2007 Edward Derbyshire |
International Collaboration in Global Science: Price or Prize? The UN triennium 2007 - 2009 International Year of Planet Earth aims to contribute to the improvement of everyday life, especially in less-developed countries, and by promoting the societal potential of the world's earth scientists. |
Geotimes October 2003 Josh Chamot |
Earthquake warning tools The ability to forecast a seismic event has been an elusive goal, but researchers are accepting the challenge and are using recent advances in seismic and computational technology to attempt to decipher Earth's subtle clues. |
Geotimes September 2003 Megan Sever |
Giant earthquake hits Japan A magnitude-8.1 earthquake struck off the southeastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan, before dawn on Friday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Japanese quake is the strongest to hit anywhere in the world this year. |
Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Indonesian Quake Linked to Volcanic Activity? A powerful earthquake rocked through Indonesia's district of Bantul early Saturday morning, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. The quake could spell trouble for nearby Mount Merapi volcano, now on high alert for eruption. |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2010 Chris Jones |
Bill Gross and His Ring of Fire The manager of the world's largest bond fund searches for good investments in India, China, and Brazil. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Planet Earth After five years and more than $25 million, BBC's award-winning Natural History Unit presented the landmark documentary series Planet Earth. Here are five things you may not know about the making of the program. |
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Tsunami Devastates Asia Geoscientists won't know exactly what happened in the Indian Ocean event until they can get into the field. |
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Seeing Earthquakes From Space A small instrument aboard the International Space Station can be used to look for disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field that may precede large earthquakes. |
Geotimes January 2004 Cynthia Martinez |
Earth Science Week in the Limelight The sixth annual Earth Science Week, held Oct. 12-18, promoted understanding and appreciation of the value of earth science research and its applications and relevance to our daily lives. |
Geotimes February 2004 |
Earthquake rocks Morocco At 2:27 a.m. local time today, a magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck the northern coast of Morocco. Preliminary reports suggest at least 300 people have died and many more have been injured, according to the Associated Press. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Sandra Upson |
U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist. |