LiveScience.com – Earthquakes strike along California’s San Andreas Fault more often than scientists previously thought, a new study suggests.
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Big San Andreas Quakes More Frequent than Thought (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on August 20th, 2010
Surprise 2nd Quake Discovered Behind Deadly Tsunami (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on August 18th, 2010
LiveScience.com – The deadly tsunami that washed over the southwest Pacific
islands of Samoa and Tonga last September may have been triggered by not just
one but two giant earthquakes, new research suggests.
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Haiti Quake Caused by Previously Unknown Fault (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on August 10th, 2010
LiveScience.com – A previously unmapped fault was responsible for the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, not the fault originally blamed for the temblor, scientists announced Tuesday.
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Genes Influence Your Response to Others’ Drinking Habits (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on July 29th, 2010
LiveScience.com – Your genes may determine how likely you are to imitate the drinking
habits of others, new research suggests.
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Huge Chilean Earthquake Raised Country’s Coast (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on July 29th, 2010
LiveScience.com – The Chilean earthquake that struck on Feb. 27 changed the country’s landscape by raising the ground by more than 8 feet near the coast and sinking land farther inward, a new study finds.
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River Gets Blame for Giant 1811 Earthquakes (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on July 28th, 2010
LiveScience.com – Massive earthquakes that struck the town of New Madrid, Mo., in 1811 can be traced to the actions of the mighty Mississippi River thousands of years earlier, a new study in the journal Nature suggests.
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Synthetic Biology: Great Promise and Potential Peril (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on July 18th, 2010
LiveScience.com – Washington, D.C. – Designer organisms created from scratch in
genomics labs won’t run amok anytime
soon, according to scientists speaking at the first public meeting of President
Obama’s bioethics commission held here in the nation’s capital last week.
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Cigarette Smoke Jolts Hundreds of Genes, Researchers Say (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on July 17th, 2010
LiveScience.com – Doctors have long noticed a link between smoking and cancers found in
organs beside the lungs, including kidney, colon and bladder cancers.
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When Was the Last Earthquake Near Washington, D.C.? (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on July 16th, 2010
LiveScience.com – The mild, 3.6-magnitude earthquake that rattled Washington, D.C., and
the surrounding area at 5:04 a.m. local time was the largest earthquake
to strike near the nation’s capital since 1984. On April 23 of that
year, a 4.4-magnitude quake struck near Wicomico Church, Va., about 120
miles (193 km) north of D.C., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Deep Tremor Shakes the Earth (LiveScience.com)
Posted by admin on July 14th, 2010
LiveScience.com – The Earth doesn’t shake only after violent volcanoes or earthquakes. A recently discovered phenomenon known as “deep tremor” also rumbles the globe.
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