Published: August 23, 2010 from Barkley32002 Noticing a Magnitude-8.0 Earthquake Months Later Noticing a Magnitude-8.0 Earthquake Months Later To the amazement of seismologists, they missed a magnitude-8.0 earthquake last year. “It is sort of shocking,” said Thorne Lay, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led a team that uncovered the seismic fingerprints months later. “If we hadn’t done the careful analysis, we would have missed it.” Magnitude-8 earthquakes are known as great earthquakes for their ferocious destructive power, and networks of seismometers can pinpoint much smaller earthquakes. In this case, however, the great earthquake was hidden by a greater quake. The greater earthquake, of magnitude 8.1, struck Sept. 29, 2009, off the Samoa Islands in the Pacific. That in itself was a surprise to seismologists, because there have not been any known magnitude-8 earthquakes around the Tonga trench, where the Pacific plate slips beneath the Australian plate, leading seismologists to believe that the fault there is well lubricated and does not build up enough stress to generate great earthquakes. Still, the two tectonic plates are speeding toward each other there faster than anywhere else in the world, some 10 inches a year. The resulting tsunami, which swept into Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, killing more than 100 people, also puzzled scientists. The magnitude-8.1 earthquake did not occur at the plate boundary …
video.news.sky.com One of the world’s top climate change experts says the environmental disasters killing hundreds of thousands of people across the world could be a sign that global warming has well and truly arrived. Sky’s Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Lisa Holland reports.
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This is a CCTV recording in Melsa ISP office, Bandung West Java – Indonesia. People were running out of the building when the 7.3 richter scale earthquake happened on September 2 2009 at 2:55:28 PM.
KT Tunstall speaks here about her contribution to an album for Survival International, the human rights organization for tribal peoples. Bruce Parry, star of the BBC series Tribe and the forthcoming Amazon, has teamed up with some of the music worlds biggest names to create a fundraising album for Survival. Musicians on the album also include will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas), Johnny Borrell (Razorlight), Tom Baxter, Mystery Jets, Jason Mraz, Yusuf Islam, Hot Chip, the Go! Team and Mike Oldfield …
