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• Bay Area Earthquake

  
  WHAT IM SEEING dot com — Authority: 131
  Bay Area residents felt very light tremors at about 10:00 am The epicenter of the earthquake has been estimated near San Jose (See the USGS, and a digitally enhanced map below). View post: Bay Area Earthquake Related posts: Earthquake San José Earthquake San Jose ( San Jose Earthquake ) « Kinhd Anhra ...
  3 hours ago

• Earthquake Here in San Jose

  
  Kreuzer's Korner — Authority: 137
  We’re on the 9th floor in downtown San Jose and it was shaking like crazy here! Probably not as bad in reality as it felt but it got us running We’re guessing about a 4.5. Not as bad as Loma Prieta! I’ll look for news updates today but have a dentist appointment. Did you feel it? What did you think? ...
  19 hours ago

• A Moderate Earthquake Just Hit San Francisco – Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 10:09 AM

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 139
  It felt like a quick initial jolt followed up by three seconds of shaking to those of us in San Francisco. See what people thought about it over at SFist.com . The updated report from the USGS indicates a 4.2 near the city of Milpitas. A light earthquake occurred at 10:09:35 AM (PST) on Thursday, January 7, ...
  19 hours ago

• Toxic Dust from Roads Travels into Homes

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  Could we be literally walking toxic compounds right into our homes? Find out here.
  2 days ago

• USGS Volcano Hazards Program

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  Visit the USGS Volcano Hazards Program website to get the latest alerts and updates for volcanoes in the United States.
  3 days ago

• Earthquakes hit Joshua Tree seconds apart

  
  Riverside CA Inland Empire Southern California News — Authority: 464
  Two small earthquakes were detected in Joshua Tree overnight. The first happened at 8:35 p.m. on Sunday, January 3, 2010, it was 2.4 in magnitude. That quake was followed by a similar event within 13 seconds. The second quake also had a magnitude of 2.4, according to the USGS. There have been no reports of damage. ...
  4 days ago

• A look at the interim federal Delta plan

  
  Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy — Authority: 129
  As I pointed out three months ago, the federal government has awakened from its 8-year Bush administration slumber to notice that the SF Bay-Delta is an important environmental and economic resource whose management requires federal input. On December 22, the Obama administration issued an Interim Federal Action ...
  6 days ago

• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
  1 week ago

• Map: Latest Baja Quakes

  
  TechLifeWeb — Authority: 127
  Baja California has been shaking lately. Especially in the area just south of Mexicali. I’ve built a little map to keep tabs on the area. The information comes from USGS via RSS through Yahoo Pipes. So, if a quake is felt, it will be a little delayed here on the map due to the nature of path to get here. Given that, ...
  1 week ago

• San Diego was hit by a 5-8 earthquake

  
  Blogoncherry — Authority: 146
  A magnitude-5.8 earthquake in northern Baja California rocked the U.S.-Mexico border region Wednesday at 10:49am, causing buildings to sway more than 100 miles to the west in downtown San Diego.The main quake was centered about 20 miles southeast of the Mexican border city of Mexicali, according to the U.S. Geological ...
  1 week ago

• Global warming 3 million years ago

  
  disinter — Authority: 116
  Via U.S. Geological Survey : Scientists documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.3 to 3 million years ago). Must have been all those SUVs back then. Strange how the polar bears survived. Where is the Al Gore cult on ...
  1 week ago

• Garmin US TOPO 24K National Parks, East CD

  
  Kill Deal — Authority: 176
  Provides topographic maps of Eastern U. S. national parks and forests Ideal for hunters, hikers and outdoor enthusiasts Maps based on the 1:24,000 scale USGS maps Provides trail names, routable trails, summit elevations and peaks, roads, and more Includes park amenities such as visitor centers, camping and picnic ...
  1 week ago

• Earthquake detection and response: Has India got a twitter strategy in place?

  
  Trakin' the india business buzz — Authority: 547
  Twitter has been put to many unusual uses and the latest is the detection and responses to earthquakes in real-time based on the spike in tweets and their geo-locations. The US Geological survey (USGS), as per this BBC report , is trawling the tweets for keywords like quake and earthquake to detect earthquakes ...
  1 week ago

• Greetings from the Moons North Pole

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 131
  Junction between the rims of three craters on the floor of Peary crater near the lunar north pole is evident in this NAC image ( M101955359L ). Note the mottled texture of the regolith. Peary is a key exploration site for future astronauts due its proximity to potential resources. Image width is 2.68 km ...
  2 weeks ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Newly-Discovered Features of Mercury

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  “When the MESSENGER spacecraft completed its third and final fly-by of Mercury in September, cartographic experts from the U. S. Geological Survey used the imagery captured to complete a mosaic showing the 55 percent of the planet never seen by humankind.”
  2 weeks ago

• Pierce County Washington USGS Topographic Maps on CD

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 178
  Product Description This USGS Topo CD will change the way you view your county! This easy to use USGS topo CD is a great way to print your own maps of anyplace in your County. These are the highest detailed USGS maps available. A scale of 1:24,000 allows considerable detail to be shown; 2. 64 inches = 1 mile. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sonic Boom Mistaken For Earthquake In San Diego

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  By Ranjan Bhaduri,Dec. 22, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Yesterday, at around 4.00 PM PST, the residents of San Diego could feel the ground moving underneath their feat and also heard a very loud, booming sound. This led to the citizens suspecting that they were being hit by another earthquake. However, the USGS or the United ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  2 weeks ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  2 weeks ago

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