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Semeru Volcano
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Three days after an earthquake struck Java, on May 27, 2006, the island’s Semeru Volcano showed signs of heightened activity.
Latitude:, 8.108°S, 8°6'30"S. Longitude:, 112.92°E, 112°55'0"E.
Credit NASA
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Lebanon's Dinosaurs
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Palaeontologists have uncovered the first dinosaur remains in Lebanon, adding evidence to the theory that millions of years ago the Middle East was covered with forests where giant reptiles roamed.
Writing in the German journal Naturwissenschaften, Eric Buffetaut of France's National Ce...
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Amburi Explosion
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Indian authorities have ordered an investigation by scientists into a mysterious explosion of `rocks and spewing of debris` from the cliffs of Kondaiketti hill, about 200 km from Chennai, on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala Border in Kanyakumari district that occurred around midnight on May 25.
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Koryakia Quake
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A major magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred at 23:25:05 (UTC) on Thursday, April 20, 2006, in Koryakia, Russia.
Location 61.092°N, 167.100°E
It occurred at a Depth of 43 km, 205 km NorthEast of Il'pyrskiy, Russia.
Strong aftershocks have occurred.
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TAPP-3
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India took another step forward in nuclear power generation when its 16th nuclear power plant and second 540-MW pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR), Tarapur Atomic Power Plant (TAPP-3), went critical at 05:14 GMT, Sunday 21 May, 2006.
Commercial production will start in July. Once it is d...
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New tracking antennas
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The Allied Defence Group, Inc. (Amex: ADG) announces the receipt of two follow-on contract awards from Bigelow Aerospace.
The new orders are for SeaSpace's 6.1-meter AXYOM 3-axis tracking antennas. The SeaSpace AXYOM Model 50 provides a very high performance, and economical solution, for...
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Tropical Storm Chanchu
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Tropical Storm Chanchu formed in the western Pacific on May 8, 2006, roughly 500 miles east of the Philippines. The storm gradually built strength and size, reaching typhoon strength by May 11. It lost some strength as it crossed the Philippines, but once clear of the islands, it regained power and b...
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Cyclone Monica
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Tropical Cyclone Monica formed off the northeastern coast of Australia on April 17, 2006.
This is the same general area where Cyclone Larry formed a month earlier. On April 19 and 20, Cyclone Monica crossed Cape York Peninsula with weaker winds than Larry, and its path in northern Queensl...
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Kapustin Yar
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Kapustin Yar is located on the banks of the Volga River, about 75 miles east of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and less than 30 miles east of Kazakhstan.
Latitude: 48°30' N. Longitude: 45°48' E
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Tsar Samuil's Stronghold
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The outer wall in the northern part of the complex of Tsar Samuil's Stronghold, located above the town of Ohrid, has collapsed because of heavy rains.
Restoration work had never been done in the damaged part of the 10th/11th-century complex.
The section of the wall, which collapsed, is 10-me...
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Bannan observatory
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Seattle University houses a resident unknown to most of its students. Up a few steep flights of stairs in the Bannan Centre for Science and Engineering and through a locked door sits an astronomy observation point worth around $70,000 at the time of its creation. The tower offers a 360 degree view of C...
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Cyclopropenylidenes
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Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a type of molecule thought to exist only in interstellar space, which may have valuable applications in the chemical industry.
The finding of their paper, titled Cyclopropenylidenes: From Interstellar...
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C-16 Iceberg
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A monstrous iceberg - nearly as large as New York's Long Island - has barrelled along the Antarctic coastline, coming to a stop at a well-known geographic feature of Antarctica, a floating tongue of ice hitched to the Ross Ice Shelf. The iceberg, known to scientists as C-16, is being monitore...
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Vilama Caldera
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Vilama Caldera in Argentina may be just one of several unappreciated supervolcanoes hidden in a veritable mega-volcano nursery called the Eduardo Avaroa Caldera Complex, located in the inhospitable Puna-Altiplano region near the tri-section of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.
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Tropical Cyclone Larry
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Tropical Cyclone Larry smashed Australia's northeastern coast with winds up to 290 kph.
Queensland state Premier Peter Beattie has declared a state of emergency.
"It's the worst cyclone we've had in decades" - Premier Peter Beattie .
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