0Digg meAt 11:42 am on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area experienced its largest earthquake in years as a magnitude 5.4 event occurred 8.5 miles beneath the Chino Hills. This earthquake was felt across much of southern California, and as far away as Las Vegas, Nevada.
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California feels the 5.4 earthquake
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Water should be Harvested Before it melts
March 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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Some glaciers in Europe have suffered significant losses
The rate at which some of the world’s glaciers are melting has more than doubled, data from the United Nations Environment Programme has shown. Average glacial shrinkage has risen from 30 centimetres per year between 1980 and 1999, to 1.5 metres […]
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Saturn moon ‘once had ocean’
March 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
0Digg me- Tethys-one of Saturn’s moons may once have harbored a liquid ocean beneath its icy surface, scientists reported to a conference in Houston, Texas.
Tethys is a mid-sized satellite with a density close to that of pure ice.
There is a large valley system visible today which could have formed when the crust was repeatedly heated […]
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