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White Island
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Whakaari/White Island is an active andesite stratovolcano, situated 48 km from the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, in the Bay of Plenty. The nearest mainland towns are Whakatane and Tauranga. Read more Expan...
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Tanegashima
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An advisory panel, organized under the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has recommended that Japan build a new launch pad for its space program overseas because its current one is restricted by local fishing concerns.
The committee urged the government to consider sites such as...
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Ring o' Brodgar
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Prehistoric enclosure discovered at Brodgar
Workmen building a new visitor car park for the Ring o' Brodgar (Orkney, Scotland) have unearthed what could be the remains of a huge prehistoric walled enclosure between the Stenness and Harray lochs. Construction work was halted last week...
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Vanuatu Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 14:12:21 (UTC) on Tuesday, August 9, 2005 in the Vanuatu region, about 100 km North-West of Ceva-i-Ra, Fiji
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Edward Islands Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 02:17:45 (UTC) on Sunday, August 7, 2005 in the Prince Edward Islands region at a depth of 10km.
Location 46.941°S, 33.474°E
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The daughters of the first cosmonaut Yury Gagarin are suing Moscow-based film company Central Partnership, distributor of the tragi-comic feature film "Gagarin's Grandson," for allegedly misusing Gagarin's name and...
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Nicaragua Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 11:03:15 (UTC) on Wednesday, August 3, 2005, located in Nicaragua.
The quake occurred about 40 km ESE of Rivas[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/news/NIC8611globe.gif[/im...
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Kermadec Islands Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 23:32:54 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 7, 2005, in the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, 80 km SouthSouthEast of Raoul Island.
The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 37.2 km.
Location 29.963°S, 177.631°W
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Java Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 09:13:10 (UTC) on Monday, July 17, 2006, South of Java, Indonesia, 210km SSW of Tasikmalaya, Java, at a depth of 46.6 km.
Location 9.133°S, 107.653°E
A major magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred at 08:19:30 (UTC) on Monday, July 17...
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Mount Shevutich
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Mount Shevutich, a volcano on the Russian far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, is spewing gas and ash to heights of up to 5,000 feet.
Satellite images show clear signs of a thermal anomaly in the area.
Residents nearby might face ashfall and mud slides from the slope of Mt. Shiveluch.
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Planetary Resources Inc.
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Start-Up Sees New Frontier in Mining On Tuesday, Planetary Resources Inc., whose mission has been shrouded in secrecy, will outline in Seattle its plan to send an unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid and mine it for valuable metals and water that could be used in further space exploration or returne...
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UK Quake
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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck Britain just before 1am today.
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Able and Baker
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On this day in 1959, the 10 year old squirrel monkey Miss Bakerand the rhesus monkey Abel were launched on a suborbital flight aboard a US JUPITER AM-18 rocket from Cape Canaveral. The first primates in space (defined as above 50 mile altitude by the U.S. at the time) returned to earth unharmed. Abel di...
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Bigelow Aerospace
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Bigelow Aerospace is now offering to the public an exciting new opportunity.
For the first time, you can actually send an item of your own into space. Your personal selection will be floating inside a spacecraft hundreds of miles above the Earth. If all systems function properly, your personal tr...
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Kamchatka Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 13:08:02 (UTC) on Monday, May 22, 2006, in the Kamchatka region, Russia, 146 km North of from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, and at a depth of 189.4 km.
Location 54.322°N, 158.432°E
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