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November 05, 2009
African Desert Rift Confirmed As New Ocean In The Making
Rochester NY (SPX) Nov 04, 2009
In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was controversial. Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those ... read more

Colossal quake may hit Sumatra in 30 years: geologist
Singapore (AFP) Oct 15, 2009
A colossal earthquake may hit Indonesia's Sumatra island within 30 years, triggering a tsunami and making last month's deadly temblor look tiny by comparison, a geologist has warned. Kerry Sieh, director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore, said the next big quake would last more than six times as long as the 7.6 magnitude quake which struck western Sumatra on September 30, leveling the ... more

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Killer earthquakes shake scientific thought
Sydney (AFP) Oct 11, 2009
A sudden cluster of massive earthquakes which has shaken Asia-Pacific communities and likely left thousands dead has also jolted some scientists, who are starting to question conventional thought. Experts who dismissed notions that far-away quakes could be linked are beginning to think again after huge tremors rocked Samoa and Indonesia on the same day, followed by another major convulsion ... more

Indonesia quake zone a disaster waiting to happen: scientists
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 1, 2009
Scientists have warned for years that the Indonesian city of Padang is a disaster waiting to happen because of strain on a nearby fault-line. After this week's quake they say worse is still to come. The city on Sumatra island is located between two lines of high seismic activity - the Great Sumatran fault on the mainland to the east, and the Sumatra trench, also called the Sunda trench, und ... more

Asia trembles as 'Ring of Fire' sees new deadly quakes
Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 1, 2009
Asia trembled this week as earthquakes hit in Indonesia and the South Pacific along the "Ring of Fire," a stretch of seismic fury responsible for most of the world's tremors and volcanoes. But experts said that although one earthquake can sometimes can set off another, that was not the case in this week's disasters which struck Indonesia's Sumatra and the once-idyllic Samoan islands. ... more

Major quakes can weaken seismic faults far away, scientists say
Paris (AFP) Sept 30, 2009
Huge earthquakes can weaken seismic faults on the other side of the world, scientists in California said on Wednesday. Their study coincided with a major 8.0-magnitude quake in the Pacific, unleashing a tsunami that killed scores of people in the Samoan islands and Tonga. Seismologists led by Taka'aki Taira of the University of California at Berkeley found that the 9.1 monster that struc ... more

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    Massive quake moves New Zealand closer to Australia
    Wellington (AFP) July 22, 2009
    A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has moved the south of New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists said Wednesday. With the countries separated by the 2,250-kilometre-wide (1,400-mile-wide) Tasman Sea, the 30 centimetre (12 inch) closing of the gap in New Zealand's southwest won't make much difference. But earthquake scientist Ken Gledhill of GNS Science said the shift illus ... more

    What Goes Down, Must Come Up: Earth's Leaky Mantle
    Houston TX (SPX) Jun 05, 2009
    A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation. The research, which appears this week in the journal Nature, takes aim at a question that has vexed geoscientists for years: how to reconcile leading theories about the convection of ... more

    A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface
    Tempe AZ (SPX) May 28, 2009
    There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected. Volcanoes, earthquakes, and even the sudden uplifting or sinking of the ground are all visible results of restlessness far below, but according to research by Arizona State University (ASU) seismologists, dynamic activity deep beneath us isn't always expressed on the surface. ... more

    Andes Mountains Are Older Than Previously Believed
    Panama, Panama (SPX) May 19, 2009
    The geologic faults responsible for the rise of the eastern Andes mountains in Colombia became active 25 million years ago-18 million years before the previously accepted start date for the Andes' rise, according to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the University of Potsdam in Germany and Ecopetrol in Colombia. "No one had ever dated mountain-building ... more

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