Pin ItemailprintToday, Russia pointed the finger at the U.S. regarding the failure of its Phobos-Grunt probe that was headed for Mars. Russia thinks the probe may have failed due to radiation from U.S. radars. “There is such a theory,” said Yury Koptev, head of the scientific committee of state technology company Russian Technologies. “To test [...]
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A magnitude 7.3 quake struck west of Sumatra, Indonesia overnight causing locals to flee from their homes and prompting a brief tsunami warning. Fortunately, no one was injured and there was no damage reported. The quake struck at 12:37 a.m. local time about 260 miles southwest of Banda Aceh, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. [...]
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Quite a way to start the New Year, don’t you think? A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck under the sea south of Japan today, rocking buildings in the capital. No damage has been reported and there are no current tsunami warnings. The temblor struck near the island of Torishima in the Pacific Ocean, which is uninhabited and [...]
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It’s been nine months since that massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami decimated Japan, killing over 15,000 people in the process. Tsunami debris has already begun washing ashore thousands of miles from the epicenter on the West Coast of the U.S. Last week, along the coast of Washington state, nine polyethylene buoys that belonged to a [...]
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Just one day after becoming a hurricane, Hurricane Kenneth has strengthened into a Category 4 storm. This rare mid-November storm is now officially the latest-occurring major hurricane ever recorded in the eastern North Pacific basin. Hurricane Kenneth has strong winds of about 145 mph, but is currently not thought to be much of a threat [...]
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What really happened to Anneka Vasta? No one seems to know for sure. In 1975, Vasta was the Penthouse “Pet of the Year”. On January 4th of this year, some joggers found Vasta’s naked, dead body washed up on the shores of Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps base near San Diego. Although she was 58 [...]
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A 12-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after spending 20 minutes submerged in the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Charles “Dale” Ostrander was visiting the southwest coast of Washington State with members of his church youth group last Friday when he happened to get caught in a riptide just north of Long Beach. Another [...]
Mount Lokon volcano in Indonesia has begun erupting this week, sending almost 1,000 residents fleeing from their villages. According to local officials, 977 people from Kaskasen and Kinilow villages evacuated earlier this week. Mount Lokon has been at the highest alert level since last weekend and has been erupting on a daily basis. Residents have [...]
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A massive earthquake has rocked the South Pacific and prompted a tsunami warning for Kermadec Island, Tonga, and New Zealand. The earthquake had a reported magnitude of 7.8 and struck off the Kermadec Islands. There has been a tsunami advisory warning issued for the Pacific – for the Kermadec Islands, Tonga and New Zealand based [...]
So what gives with all these tornadoes this season? In April alone, an estimated 305 tornadoes have swept through various parts of the U.S. and, according to the National Weather Service. That massive tornado in Joplin, MO on Sunday that killed over 110 people has been yet another wake-up call in what’s fast-becoming one of [...]
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The rest of the world is so screwed. A new, futuristic laser weapon that was mounted on a speeding cruiser successfully blasted another boat in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, in what could be the first in a new array of high-tech laser weapons, the Navy announced today. “We were able to have a [...]
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It looks like Sir Richard Branson isn’t satisfied with conquering private space flight. The billionaire Virgin owner is now working on a vessel that will be able to explore the deepest points on Earth. Branson has launched a new venture called Virgin Oceanic that will explore the seas and map out the bottom of our oceans [...]
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