| Alaska Report: Scientists say a severe storm in the Gulf of Alaska in October 2005 generated an ocean swell that six days later broke apart a giant iceberg. The team of scientists, led by Professors Douglas MacAyeal of the University of Chicago and Emile Okal at Northwestern University, said the swell was so powerful it destroyed the iceberg near the coast of Antarctica, more than 8,300 miles away. "We are reporting on a unique kind of seismological signal picked up by seismometers we ... |
