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Kikai caldera
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Kikai is a mostly submerged, 19-km-wide caldera near the northern end of the Ryukyu Islands south of Kyushu. Kikai was the source of one of the world's largest Holocene eruptions about 6300 years ago. Read more [url=http://farm1...
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Tibesti Volcanoe
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Two volcanoes in the Tibesti Range Mountains in northern Chad exhibit dramatically different surface characteristics in a topographic image. The difference in their appearance is due to their relative ages and eruptive history. The composite image was captured by NASA's Terra satellite o...
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Ancient stone circle
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Tree over ancient stone circle chopped down A 200-year-old tree at the centre of worship by druids and witches has been chopped down to size after it became diseased. The 80ft beech at Winterbourne Abbas (England) has been reduced to a 10-metre stump by English Heritage because of fears it would die a...
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Tropical Cyclone Jacob
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Tropical Cyclone Jacob is forecast to strike land in Australia probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 48 hours probability for TS is 60% in about 36 hours
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Tropical Cyclone George
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Tropical Cyclone George is forecast to strike land in Australia. probability for CAT 1 or above is 65% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 90% in about 24 hours Roebourne (20.8 S, 117.2 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 65% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 85% in about 24 hours Pannawonica (21...
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Kerguelen Islands
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This image of the Kerguelen Islands was taken on February 15, 2007, by NASA’s Terra satellite. The Kerguelen Islands are located in the southern Indian Ocean roughly midway between Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. At of about 49 degrees South, the islands lie in the path of the “Furious Fifties,...
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Anatahan Volcano
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Anatahan Volcano has been putting out gas and steam plume that have moved into Saipan and Tinian, according to the Emergency Management Office yesterday. EMO said concentrations of volcanic gases should be low, but that the haze and odor ma...
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Tropical Cyclone Favio
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Tropical Cyclone Favio is forecast to strike land in Mozambique in about 42 hours. The probability for a category 1 or above is 35%, the probability for a tropical storm is 55%.
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Salisbury Ditch
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Senior officials and military personnel from the Ministry of Defence in London spent a day on Salisbury Plain recently, working alongside staff and volunteers of various environmental groups, helping to clear a 200-metre length of Bronze Age linear ditch.
The work was part of the fifth annua...
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Hazaribagh’s megaliths
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Hazaribagh’s prehistoric megaliths are finally receiving the academic and popular attention they deserve. Subhashis Das has been working tirelessly to preserve them and started the Megalithic Utsav at Punkhri- Barwadih two years ago to generate awareness about these sentinels from the remot...
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Mount Karthala
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Water supplies to more than 100,000 people in the Indian Ocean Comoros islands have been contaminated by the eruption of one of the world's largest active volcanoes.
Mount Karthala sent clouds of ash and sparks flying late on Thursday, leaving the capital Moroni and other villag...
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Gulf of Aden Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 08:30:49 (UTC) on Saturday, December 30, 2006, in the Gulf of Aden region, about 240 km WNW of Qalansiyah, Socotra Island, Yemen, at a depth of 10 km.
Location 13.383°N, 51.378°E
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Sergei Korolyov
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Russian space enthusiasts are kicking off a year of major anniversaries on Friday with ceremonies marking the centenary of the birth of Sergei Korolyov, the founder of the Soviet space program and quite possibly the man most responsible for sparking the “space race.”
September brings the 150...
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Seram Quake
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A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 10:25:01 (UTC) on Sunday, November 13, 2005, in Seram, Indonesia, 95 km NorthEast of Ambon, Moluccas, at a depth of 35 km.
Location 3.174°S, 128.874°E
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Tropical storm Clovis
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Tropical storm Clovis is heading towards Madagascar.
Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centre suggest that the point of landfall will be near 19.5 S, 49.0 E.
Clovis currently has 1-minute maximum sustained winds of around 64 km/h. Wind gusts maybe considerably hi...
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