Faults and Fractures
Fractures and faults are planes of tensile or shear failure at microscopic to regional scales in brittle rocks. Faults may constitute a single plane or comprise zones of parallel ...
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Wellington (dpa) - Scientists Thursday assured nervous residents
of Auckland - New Zealand's biggest city which sits on a field of
about 50 dormant volcanoes - that there wa...
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Did an earthquake cause a Utah coal mine to cave in, or did the mine collapse trigger the tremors?A fierce dispute erupted over that question Tuesday, with a top mine executive declaring on nationa...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
INSURACE FOR THE NEXT BIG ONE (The New York Times, New York)
There is impeccable logic to the argument that taxpayers should
not be made ...
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VIENNA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors have found no
significant damage to safety equipment inside an earthquake-hit
Japanese nuclear plant, the world's largest, the International
Atomic Energy ...
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With "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" splashing onto big screens across the country come Christmas Day, a lot of kids will want to visit Scotland. Consider this film the beginning of their tra...
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Balong, Indonesia (dpa) - Like the majority of villagers in
Indonesia's densely populated Central Java province, 40-year-old
Suhadi opposes the government's plan to built it...
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Almost nonstop, gargantuan 145-ton trucks rumble through China's biggest open-pit coal mine, sending up clouds of soot as they dump their loads into mechanized sorters.The black treasure has transf...
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Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuari...
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Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuari...
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Faults and Fractures
Scientists assuage eruption fears after three quakes hit Auckland
