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Dozens in hospital after 6.0 quake hits near Turkish resort
Jun 10, 2012 (AFP)
A strong earthquake hit off the southwest coast of Turkey Sunday near a popular tourist resort, putting dozens of people in hospital, including some who jumped ...
Super-eruptions may have surprisingly short fuses
Jun 08, 2012 (SPX)
Enormous volcanic eruptions with potential to end civilizations may have surprisingly short fuses, researchers have discovered. These eruptions are known as sup...
Like a jet through solid rock volcanic arc fed by rapid fluid pulses
Jun 08, 2012 (SPX)
In the depths of the earth, it is anything but peaceful: large quantities of liquids carve their way through the rock as fluids, causing magma to form. A resear...
US strips seaweed from Japanese tsunami wreck
Jun 07, 2012 (AFP)
Environmental protection workers stripped seaweed and barnacles Thursday from a tsunami-wrecked dock washed up on a US beach, to guard against "invasive species...
Powerful 6.0 quake strikes southern Peru
Jun 07, 2012 (AFP)
A powerful magnitude 6.0 quake shook southern Peru on Thursday, US seismologists said, with Peru authorities indicating no immediate reports of casualties or da...
Huge dock washed up on US coast, thought from Japan
Jun 06, 2012 (AFP)
A huge floating dock cast adrift by Japan's killer tsunami has washed up on an Oregon beach 15 months later, among the biggest pieces of flotsam to make landfal...
Huge Japan tsunami dock washes up on US beach
Jun 06, 2012 (AFP)
A huge floating dock cast adrift by Japan's killer tsunami has washed up on an Oregon beach, believed to be the biggest pieces of flotsam to make landfall on th...
Unmanned NASA Storm Sentinels set for Hurricane Study
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
Ah, June. It marks the end of school, the start of summer...and the official start of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, which got off to an early start in May...
Toll of Italian earthquakes rises to 25
Jun 05, 2012 (AFP)
Two women injured in a May 29 earthquake in Italy's Emilia Romagna region have died, bringing the toll from two quakes that struck the area last month to 25, It...
Hurricane season is here, and FSU scientists predict an active one
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at the Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) have released their fourth annual Atlantic hurricane season f...
Three dead, six missing as typhoon passes Philippines
Jun 04, 2012 (AFP)
Three children were killed and six fishermen were missing after typhoon Mawar brought heavy rains and rough waters to parts of the Philippines, the civil defenc...
Japan city watches 'premonitory' signs for tsunami
Jun 03, 2012 (AFP)
A Japanese city is considering introducing a tsunami warning system which involves looking out for abnormal behaviour in animals and monitoring water levels in ...
US officials urge hurricane preparation
Jun 01, 2012 (AFP)
The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season officially began Friday -- and although the forecast is for a "less active" season than in the past, US officials urged resid...
Aftershocks in Italy's quake-struck northeast
May 31, 2012 (AFP)
The quake-struck Emilia Romagna region in northeast Italy was hit by at least 37 aftershocks overnight, as thousands of anxious people spent a second night in t...
Autopsy of an eruption: Linking crystal growth to volcano seismicity
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
How processes below a volcano are linked to seismic signals at the surface is described by scientists from the petrology group of the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum an...
Forest Recovering from Mt. St. Helens Explosion
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
Mt. St. Helens exploded 32 years ago on May 18. It began with a small series of earthquakes and culminated with the volcano erupting, a cataclysmic collapse of ...
Autopsy of a eruption: Linking crystal growth to volcano seismicity
May 30, 2012 (SPX)
A forensic approach that links changes deep below a volcano to signals at the surface is described by scientists from the University of Bristol in a paper publi...
Shocks hit Italy quake zone as rescuers search for missing
May 30, 2012 (AFP)
Dozens of aftershocks hit northeastern Italy overnight as thousands of jittery survivors spent the night in tent camps after the region's second killer quake in...
10 reported killed as new quake hits Italy
May 29, 2012 (AFP)
As many as 10 people were reported killed when a strong earthquake rocked northeastern Italy on Tuesday, just days after another quake in the same region wrough...
Death toll rises to 16 in quake-struck Italy
May 29, 2012 (AFP)
A strong earthquake on Tuesday rocked northeastern Italy, killing at least 16 people and injuring 350 just days after another quake in the same region wrought d...
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