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Safety device for tall buildings
The device, called `Life-Saver` by the designers, looks like a big badminton shuttlecock. A shock-absorbing cushion connected to two thick torus rings (bagels) covered by a special material, serves as the bean of this shuttlecock. When folded the `Life-Saver` looks like a solid base backpack or a... view more (2001-12-25)

Humanitarian assistance often lacks needs assessment
The first academic thesis in Sweden on international health assistance in disaster zones is to be presented at the medical university Karolinska Institutet.   view more (2007-11-12)

Hebrew U. archaeological excavations uncover Roman temple in Zippori (Sepphoris)
Ruins of a Roman temple from the second century CE have recently been unearthed in the Zippori National Park in Israel. Above the temple are foundations of a church from the Byzantine period. The excavations, which were undertaken by the Noam Shudofsky Zippori Expedition led by of Prof. Zeev Weiss... view more (2008-08-12)

Green light for Lazio-Sirad: the experiment on the International Space Station that will chase earthquakes
Lazio-Sirad is ready to gather data. The experiment is installed on the International Space Station and its aim is to trace the slight variations of the so-called Van Allen belts that seem to occur before earthquakes. At the same time the experiment will gather data that will make possible the... view more (2005-04-14)

Major population centers may be at risk; building codes must reflect new seismic data
Earthquakes in stable continental regions lack sufficient understanding to prepare local populations for future seismic activity, according to a paper published in the February issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA).   view more (2007-02-08)

NESTA radar hits water leaks
What would you use to try and find an underground water leak, your ears or radar? Believe it or not the only way to find water leaks involves trying to hear the hiss of the leak through a device like a stethoscope. This antiquated system could soon be a thing of the past as a fast and full-proof... view more (2003-07-14)

Megatsunamis @ the London `Catastrophes` conference
The modern world appears secure in its knowledge of hazards. However tsunamis today are smaller and less frequent than they were in prehistory.   view more (2002-08-17)

Scientists obtain core samples from subsea fault system off Japan
The third expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) completed its mission off the Kii Peninsula today.   view more (2008-02-06)

NASA data helps pinpoint impacted populations in disaster aftermath
When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the news media tapped into a unique set of NASA data products describing the location of the exposed populations.   view more (2008-06-16)

Ancient wooden anchor discovered
The world's oldest wooden anchor was discovered during excavations in the Turkish port city of Urla, the ancient site of Liman Tepe -- the Greek 1st Millennium BCE colony of Klazomenai, by researchers from the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies of the University of Haifa.   view more (2007-05-22)

Plate tectonics may take a break
Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth's continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair.   view more (2008-01-04)

Rising tides intensify non-volcanic tremor in Earth's crust
For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes under Western Washington and British Columbia on a regular basis, about every 14 months.   view more (2007-11-26)

San Jacinto fault is younger than thought, rises in seismic importance
A detailed study of sedimentary rocks exposed along a portion of southern California's San Jacinto fault zone shows the fault to be no older than 1.1 million to 1.3 million years and that its long-term slip rate is probably faster than previously thought.   view more (2006-10-24)

Researchers distinguish waves from mine collapses from other seismic activities
Researchers have devised a technology that can distinguish mine collapses from other seismic activity.   view more (2008-07-11)

Atoms under the mantle
At a depth of 2900 kilometres, the layer between the Earth's mantle and its core has always intrigued geophysicists because they are unable to explain the seismic data it generates.   view more (2007-03-07)

Ancient catastrophes
ANCIENT HUMAN CIVILISATION AND RAPID NATURAL CHANGE Prof. Suzanne Leroy, of the department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel University, one of the country's top palaeoecologists - a specialist in ancient environments - will be organising an international research conference of scientists in... view more (2003-12-16)

New Hypothesis Of The Tunguska Explosion
The event which occurred almost a hundred years ago in Podkamennaya Tunguska has drawn scientists` attention again. What actually exploded at that time in the remote taiga, the power of explosion being equal to the 50-megaton H-bomb? The hypothesis that it was a meteorite or any other... view more (2002-08-23)

Deep-ocean researchers target tsunami zone near Japan
Rice University Earth scientist Dale Sawyer and colleagues last month reported the discovery of a strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region of the Pacific Ocean notorious for generating devastating earthquakes and tsunamis in southeastern Japan.   view more (2008-01-18)

Nature press release for 10 May issue
[411163] SPACE: STAR EATS PLANET (pp163–166) Astronomers finally have evidence that the Sun-like stars of extrasolar planetary systems are guilty of swallowing the planets in orbit around them. Garik Israelian at the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands and colleagues have caught a... view more (2001-05-10)

Researchers at UCLA engineering discover theoretical model to predict jamming
Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have come up with a theoretical model to predict when granular materials become jammed.   view more (2008-04-28)

Was Bristol Channel hit by a tsunami?
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Britain's largest natural disaster, the author of 2001's prophetic book Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard (Cambridge University Press) reveals strong new evidence that the Bristol Channel was devastated by a tsunami on January 30, 1607.   view more (2007-05-01)
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