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added 2007 Sat Apr 28 20:43:40 by capn_caveman
It was a chilling discovery: a mass grave of human bones - skulls smashed and scorched by fire, dog bites on a child's thigh bone, a forehead with an apparent bullet hole. Three years after the discovery, by workers digging up the cloisters of a 17th-century Franciscan convent, forensic experts and historians say they have solved the mystery.
added 2007 Sun Apr 22 7:39:36 by gatitabonitasen
At least 10 people were missing on Saturday after a large earthquake in southern Chile caused power cuts, landslides and large waves off the nation's Pacific coast, authorities said. The 6.2 magnitude quake hit at 13:50 local time (1750 GMT) with an epicenter 820 miles (1,320 km) south of the capital Santiago, near the city of Coyhaique. At firs
added 2007 Sat Apr 7 19:50:27 by capn_caveman
The force of this week's Solomons earthquake has lifted an island in the South Pacific archipelago and pushed out its shoreline by tens of meters, exposing surrounding reefs.
added 2007 Tue Apr 3 19:48:14 by JamesMarcus
At least 10 more earthquakes have shaken devastated parts of the Solomon Islands, where thousands of people are homeless and dozens dead following Monday's deadly tremor and tsunami. The full scale of the devastation became clearer yesterday as the first aerial footage of the disaster zone showed flattened buildings, homes floating in the sea, and boats and debris strewn across town streets.
added 2007 Mon Apr 2 3:05:42 by TechnologyExpert
A tsunami has swept ashore in the Solomon Islands following a strong undersea earthquake in the South Pacific Ocean, police said. Waves several metres high were reported to have crashed into some of the Solomons' western islands. There were unconfirmed reports of people missing.
added 2007 Mon Apr 2 3:00:34 by KelLuv
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A powerful magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands on Monday, prompting a tsunami alert across the Pacific Ocean in countries such as Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
added 2007 Sat Mar 31 7:12:08 by gatitabonitasen
A map of California's San Andreas Fault created with laser technology is expected to boost the accuracy of earthquake prediction efforts. Engineers with the University of Florida, the University of California, Berkeley, and other institutions are near completion of the most detailed-ever map of the 1,200-mile-plus fault and immediate adjacent te
added 2007 Fri Mar 30 6:46:25 by STONERS
A small earthquake that rattled southwestern Montana on Thursday caused no damage but could be felt about 90 miles away.

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added 2007 Sun Mar 25 4:27:28 by Deidre
Japan issued a tsunami warning for the country's Sea of Japan coast after a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck early Sunday. The quake struck shortly before 10 a.m. off the north coast of Ishikawa prefecture, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.
added 2007 Sat Mar 24 5:37:56 by STONERS
Geophysicist urges public, policy makers to consider all tectonic boundaries as lethal.
added 2007 Tue Mar 13 4:54:05 by STONERS
A rare northeast Ohio earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 3.6, was felt near the epicenter but caused no major damage.
added 2007 Tue Mar 6 6:37:59 by TechnologyExpert
A powerful earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra island damaged buildings and sent panicked residents running into the streets, officials and witnesses said. It was felt as far away as Singapore and Malaysia. The USGS said the tremor, which had a preliminary magnitude of 6.3, struck around 30 miles from Padang, a city on Sumatra's western coast. It
added 2007 Sun Feb 25 4:28:08 by jeremytoday
Earthquake simulators can greatly reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms in people who have survived the real thing, according to a study.
added 2007 Tue Feb 20 11:05:38 by Aidenag
A powerful earthquake in northeastern Indonesia triggered a tsunami warning Tuesday and caused panicked residents to flee shaking buildings, officials and media reports said. The U.S. Geological Survey initially put the temblor's magnitude at 6.9, but later revised it to 6.5.
added 2007 Sun Feb 11 18:59:03 by Neophile
Divorce can be emotionally devastating for children, but a PC game created by a longtime family therapist may help ease the pain.
added 2007 Mon Feb 5 13:04:47 by okitech
Mother Nature may be hitting back at the scourge of spam-filled inboxes, according to IE Internet. The web hosting and monitoring firm believes the recent earthquake that hit Taiwan in late December may be responsible for a reduction in spam and virus rates for January, although a monstrous 53.12 per cent of emails were spam - above last year's av
added 2007 Sun Jan 21 14:16:14 by TimALoftis
An earthquake measuring 7.3 has struck near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi the US Geological Survey says.
added 2007 Tue Jan 16 20:58:55 by bhartzer
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake jolted Tokyo and other eastern Japanese areas early Tuesday, the meteorological agency said.
added 2007 Tue Jan 16 6:20:56 by STONERS
An earthquake struck off of Taiwan's east coast Tuesday, the Central Weather Bureau said. No damage or injuries were reported, and no tsunami warning was issued.
added 2007 Sat Jan 13 22:14:34 by ninjaboy
A new method of stress analysis in earthquake research has been developed by FOI, the Swedish Defense Research Agency.
added 2007 Sat Jan 13 10:59:00 by msaleem
Thousands of residents fled to higher ground after an 8.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northern coast in the Pacific on Saturday, setting off tsunami warnings.
added 2006 Mon Aug 28 11:31:51 by Irani Sen
Scan through on what the nature is doing with us!! Is it just the start of the retaliations of what assaults we made on the environment we live in?
added 2006 Tue Aug 15 15:59:24 by TimALoftis
The transfer of millions of dollars from Britain to a Pakistani charity working on earthquake relief last year helped investigators uncover the alleged plot to blow up airplanes bound for the United States, according to two senior Pakistani intelligence officials.
added 2006 Fri Aug 11 17:51:26 by jeremytoday
A strong earthquake was felt in Mexico City on Friday and some buildings were evacuated, witnesses said