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Landslide buries Kamchatka's geyser valley (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 06-05-2007 at 12:00:43
| The landslide covered some two thirds of Eurasia's only geyser valley after two local hills sank down into a mudflow some 1.5 kilometers long and 200 metres wide (one mile by 650 feet), damming the canyon's Geysernaya river.(AFP) |
Quake jolts Philippine capital (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 06-04-2007 at 12:00:40
| A moderate earthquake shook the Philippine capital's seaside tourist district and outlying rural regions late Sunday, but was not strong enough to cause any injuries or damage, officials said. The temblor had a preliminary magnitude of 5.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.(AP) |
Strong earthquake in China kills 2, injures more than 200 (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 06-03-2007 at 12:00:47
| The 6.4-magnitude quake at 5:34 a.m. was centered in the old downtown of Ning'er County in Pu'er City, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.2.(USAToday) |
NASA-funded Robotic Sub Finds Bottom Of World's Deepest Sinkhole (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 06-03-2007 at 12:00:47
| A robotic vehicle designed for underwater exploration plunged repeatedly into the depths of Mexico's mysterious El Zacatón sinkhole in late May, finding its previously undiscovered bottom 318 meters below the surface and generating a sonar map of its inner dimensions.(ScienceDaily) |
Hot rocks could get a big boost (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 06-02-2007 at 12:02:53
| A proposal to give geothermal energy in Australia a big injection of funds has been welcomed by the sustainable energy industry.(ABC.net) |
Russia's Precambrian Layer Hides Riddle Of Earth's Oxygen (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-31-2007 at 03:00:46
| Two geologists from the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU), Victor A. Melezhik and Aivo Lepland, will drill into 2.5 to 2 billion year-old rocks in Russia to seek to understand the interaction between geological processes that created the ”modern Earth.” (ScienceDaily) |
Canadians find signs of ancient life in Australia (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-31-2007 at 03:00:46
| Canadian researchers say they have discovered what appear to be trails left by microbes living inside volcanic rock, which they believe are new evidence of life on Earth over three billion years.(CBC) |
Strong quake hits northeast Indonesia (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-30-2007 at 12:01:03
| A strong 6.1-magnitude quake struck off northeast Indonesia Tuesday cutting off power supplies in a nearby town. A second quake struck in the same region six minutes later, the USGS said, measuring 5.6 at a depth of 10 kilometres. |
Geologist CSI hunt to date hominid fossils (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-25-2007 at 03:00:41
| Using skills similar to those of a crime scene investigator, Beverly Saylor, Case Western Reserve University geologist, observed the geological formations and strata patterns across a remote area of Ethiopia recently. She was reconstructing the environment where ancient animals and hominids once lived.(Case) |
4.7-magnitude quake shakes Hawaii (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-25-2007 at 03:00:41
| The largest earthquake to hit a part of Volcanoes National Park in nearly 50 years shook up visitors Thursday, but no injuries or damage were reported, officials said.(AP/USAToday) |
Fossilized tracks evidence that dinosaurs swam (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-25-2007 at 03:00:41
| Fossilized foot marks left by a big meat-eater on a lake bed in northern Spain 125 million years ago provide strong evidence that at least some dinosaurs were good swimmers.(Reuters) |
Researcher: Stegosaur babies made tracks (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-25-2007 at 03:00:41
| Researcher Matt Mossbrucker believes four small dinosaur tracks found within sight of the skyscrapers of downtown Denver were made by two stegosaur babies, a find he says would be "incredibly rare." (AP) |
Bear-like creature fossil found in N.D. (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-25-2007 at 03:00:41
| The skeleton of a bear-like creature believed to be about 60 million years old has been found in the North Dakota Badlands, the state paleontologist says.(AP) |
Minor earthquake shakes Midlands, South Carolina (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-25-2007 at 03:00:41
| Earthquake sensors in South Carolina pegged the quake at a magnitude 2.4, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.(Charlotte) |
Indonesian quake sparks panic, brief tsunami warning (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-24-2007 at 03:00:31
| A strong undersea earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Thursday, causing people to flee their homes in panic and run to higher ground, officials said. The temblor briefly triggered a tsunami warning.(AP) |
Geologist CSI hunt to date hominid fossils (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-24-2007 at 03:00:31
| Using skills similar to those of a crime scene investigator, Beverly Saylor, Case Western Reserve University geologist, observed the geological formations and strata patterns across a remote area of Ethiopia recently. She was reconstructing the environment where ancient animals and hominids once lived.(Case)
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Quakes hit Oregon almost daily (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-24-2007 at 03:00:31
| Geologists say Oregon and Washington state get about 1,000 earthquakes a year of magnitude 1.0 or greater, most from several miles underground. But only a handful are powerful enough to be felt by humans, and even fewer do damage.(KGW) |
Feathers fly over key evidence in the rise of dino-birds (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-23-2007 at 12:00:59
| Palaeontologists have fired a broadside over a fossil which is the cornerstone evidence to back the theory that birds descended from dinosaurs.(AFP) |
Voyage Investigates Explosive Behaviour Of Kermadec Volcanoes (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-23-2007 at 12:00:59
| Marine geologists investigating the past behaviour and hazard risk of volcanoes in the Kermadec Arc, northeast of the Bay of Plenty, have discovered two new submarine volcanoes near Raoul Island.(Newswire) |
Quake experts all shook up by zoo animals (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-22-2007 at 12:00:56
| A Chinese zoo is monitoring its animals extra carefully to study how their behaviour predicts earthquakes, the China Daily said on Tuesday. (Reuters) |
Mudflow warning for volatile Philippines volcano (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-22-2007 at 12:00:56
| Residents living along river channels emanating from Mount Bulusan were warned Monday they could be hit by deadly mudflows from the restive central Philippines volcano.(AFP) |
Ice Age blast 'ravaged America' (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-22-2007 at 12:00:56
| A controversial new idea suggests that a large space rock exploded over North America 13,000 years ago. (BBC) |
Geoscience converges under pressure (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-22-2007 at 12:00:56
| The contents of the deep Earth affect the planet as a whole, including life at its surface, but scientists must find unusual ways to "see" it. Only recently have researchers been able to produce the extreme temperatures and pressures found inside our planet to understand how it is forming and evolving.(PhysOrg) |
New bacteria discovered in tar pits (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-19-2007 at 12:00:47
| Trapped in soil that was mixed with heavy oil nearly 28,000 years ago, the bacteria have uniquely adapted to the pits' oil and natural asphalt and contain three previously undiscovered classes of enzymes that can naturally break down petroleum products, the researchers reported.(PhysOrg) |
Quake rocks islands north of New Zealand (View Original Story)
Source: christiangeology.com Posted: 05-19-2007 at 12:00:47
| A strong 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Kermadec Islands north of New Zealand on Friday. (AFP) |
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