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Peruvian Tectonic Plates Move By Earthquakes And Non-Seismic SlipLivermore CA (SPX) May 11, 2010 Just a few years ago, Dan Farber happened to be doing field work in Peru with students when the 8.0 Pisco earthquake struck. As a scientist working in the active tectonics of the Peruvian Andes - funded through the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics - Farber was asked by colleagues if he could participate in a rapid response team to map the damage of the seismic deformation and install a system of geodetic stations. He jumped at the opportunity ... read more |
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Hvolsvollur, Iceland (AFP) April 16, 2010Some 800 people have repeatedly been forced to flee their homes near an ash-spewing volcano in southern Iceland, but despite the imminent threat of flash floods and toxic ash, there are few signs of alarm. "There is no panic," said Kjartan Thorkelsson, the local police chief in the nearby village of Hvolsvollur. For the second time in two days residents quit their homes briefly Thursday ... more
Washington (AFP) April 16, 2010As ash from an Iceland volcano snarled air travel across Europe, experts said an eruption of the 'supervolcano' at the Yellowstone national park would be deadly, though it is unlikely any time soon. "The next major eruption for Yellowstone, if you have a guess, is probably thousands of years in the future," Bill Burton, a vulcanologist with the US Geological Survey, told AFP. The volcano ... more  
Bangalore (IANS) Apr 15, 2010India Wednesday readied itself to join the elite space club by firing for the first time its own cryogenic rocket engine to launch an advanced communication satellite. "The 29-hour countdown began 11.27 a.m. at Sriharikota for launching the geo-synchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-D3) Thursday at 16:27 IST with a geo-stationary satellite (GSAT-4) as its main payload," Indian Space Re ... more |
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First Operational F-15C With Enhanced Radar Rolls OutJacksonville, FL (SPX) Apr 13, 2010 Boeing representatives joined the U.S. Air Force and Florida Air National Guard (ANG) in Jacksonville to roll out the first operational ANG F-15C equipped with an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar. Boeing is under contract to upgrade 14 ANG and 10 Air Force F-15C/D aircraft with AESA. The Raytheon APG-63(V)3 AESA radar being installed on the F-15s combines the operationally proven APG-63(V)2 software with the advanced APG-79 Transmit/Receive hardware found on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet ... read more |
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