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Peru rocked by 6.0 earthquake

A STRONG earthquake measuring six shook southern Peru early today, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the US Government reported.

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Related Topix: South America, Earthquake, World News, Natural Disasters, Peru, Technical Services, Science

Sat Jul 11, 2009

UK News

KGS Director Elected President of National Group

LEXINGTON, Ky. Kentucky Geological Survey Director James Cobb has been voted president of the Association of American State Geologists .

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Related Topix: Science, Lexington, KY

San Jose Mercury News

4.0-magnitude quake rattles San Diego County

A small earthquake has rattled the San Diego coast but there are no reports of damage or injuries.

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Related Topix: San Diego County, CA, Earthquake, Natural Disasters, San Diego, CA, San Diego Metro, Science, La-Jolla, CA

Stanford News Service

Marcia McNutt, Stanford geophysicist, to be nominated to head U.S.G.S.

President Barack Obama announced Thursday, July 9, that he intends to nominate Marcia McNutt, professor of Geophysics at Stanford, to be the director of the U.S. Geological Survey and Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior.

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Related Topix: Stanford, CA, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Technical Services, Science

The Peninsula

400,000 evacuated after earthquake hits China

A woman walks on the debris of her collapsed house in the Yao'an county of Yunnan province yesterday.

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Related Topix: Earthquake, World News, Natural Disasters, China, Asia, Science, Sports

Fri Jul 10, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

The Li of Bolivia's land

Bolivia's vast lithium riches could bring the country out of poverty a ' but success depends on working with foreign firms Huge reserves of lithium a ' the element used to make high-tech batteries a ' are in Bolivia's salt deserts.

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Related Topix: Hybrid Vehicles, Electric Vehicle, Toyota Prius, Toyota, Science

KVUE

Seventh earthquake strikes Cleburne

The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 2.0 magnitude earthquake struck Friday morning near Cleburne, the latest in a series of low-intensity tremors in that area.

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Related Topix: Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Science, Dallas Metro, Southern Methodist University

Manila Bulletin

Greenland's glaciers under threat from climate change

One of the world's largest glaciers, on the west coast of Greenland, is shrinking at an alarming rate as a result of global warming -- with potentially dire consequences.

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Santa Cruz Sentinel

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute CEO nominated to run US Geological Survey

President Barack Obama on Thursday announced he will nominate Marcia McNutt, president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, as director of the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Related Topix: Science, Technical Services, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Oregon State University, Oceanography, Menlo Park, CA

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Raw Story

Hundreds injured, 10,000 homes destroyed in China quake: state media

A moderate earthquake hit southwestern China, destroying more than 10,000 homes and leaving hundreds of people injured, state media and seismologists said Friday.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Science,

International Business Times

Chinese group begins multi-billion Afghan project

A Chinese firm started work on a copper deposit in Afghanistan on Thursday, part of a multi-billion dollar project and the first major foreign investment of its kind in Afghan history, an official said.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Science

Slam Sports

Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault

Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.

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Related Topix: San Andreas, CA, Earthquake, Natural Disasters, UC Berkeley, Technical Services, Science, Winter Sports, Curling

Scottsdale Tribune

San Tan Valley woman loses 'fissure' appeal

Joan Etzenhouser of San Tan Valley reaches into one of the fissures on her property.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Queen Creek, AZ, Science

ABS-CBN News

PHIVOLCS continues monitoring of - restive' Mayon volcano

Mayon Volcano's crater floor so far has not showed signs of abnormalities, an official of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology in Legazpi City said.

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Related Topix: Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters, Science

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Physics Org

The Amazon River is 11 million years old

The Amazon River originated as a transcontinental river around 11 million years ago and took its present shape approximately 2.4 million years ago.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Physics, Astronomy

Ottawa Sun

Quake hits Greenland

Officials say a strong earthquake has jolted a sparsely populated region in northwestern Greenland, but no injuries or damage have been reported.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Earthquake, Science

KTHV-TV

Lawmakers Discuss New Rules About Plugging Wells

An Arkansas Natural Resources Commission official says new rules concerning abandoned wells do not take away the rights of private landowners to plug their own wells.

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TheNational

When day turned into night

'Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!' These were the last words heard from David Johnson, a geologist stationed 10km from Mount Saint Helens, on the morning of May 18 1980.

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Related Topix: Vancouver, WA, Johnson Outdoors, Sporting Goods, Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters, Science

Tue Jul 07, 2009

KNTV-TV

Shaky Monday Night in the North Bay

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting a series of moderate earthquakes struck Monday in close proximity in Sonoma County.

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Related Topix: Science, Natural Disasters, Earthquake, Sonoma County, CA, Cloverdale, CA

WJLA-TV Arlington

Minor Earthquake Reported in Va.

No damage or injuries have been reported following a small earthquake that rattled parts of central Virginia.

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Related Topix: Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Henrico County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Science, Richmond, VA

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