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Hypothetical tectonic weapon causing tsunamis The tsunami bomb was an attempt during World War II to develop a tectonic weapon that could create destructive tsunamis. The project commenced after US Navy officer E.A. Gibson noticed small waves generated by explosions used to clear coral reefs. The idea was developed by the United States and New …

“I felt like the ocean was all around me. The water was so cold it chilled me to the bone,” he recalls. As the water came up to his knees, Kurosawa saw people in cars gripping their steering wheels as their vehicles were washed down the road. Others who had been hanging on to trees …

The 8.1-magnitude quake was the third to strike the area on Friday morning local time, according to the New Zealand National Emergency Management Agency. The Kermadec Islands are 500–620 miles northeast of New Zealand’s North Island. The East Coast of the North Island from the Bay of Islands to Whangarei, from Matata to Tolaga Bay …

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Image copyright NASA The Falkland Islands may at some point in the future face a major tsunami. Scientists have found evidence of ancient slope failures on the seafloor to the south of the British Overseas Territory. Computer models suggest these underwater landslides would have been capable of sending waves crashing on to the Falklands’ coastline …

This time a decade ago, there was no such thing as an iPad. There were no food delivery meal kits. You didn’t speak to a machine called Alexa or Siri, or get laid with an app called Tinder. You stayed in hotels, not Airbnbs. You telephoned a cab company, rather than pressing a button and …

publication date: Sep. 20, 2019 Real-World Evidence By Matthew Bin Han Ong To keep up with an increasingly data-rich health ecosystem, FDA is implementing a multi-year strategic plan to modernize its technology infrastructure—boosting cloud capabilities and building sophisticated data analytics for using real-world evidence to support regulatory decisions. The program, FDA’s Technology Modernization Action Plan, …

Image copyright Reuters Image caption A phreatomagmatic eruption: The volcano’s plumbing was reorganised in the flank collapse The scale of the tsunami hazard from volcanoes that collapse into the sea has been underestimated. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of satellite pictures of Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau showing the aftermath of its flank failure last …

Apophis 99942 is a 370-metre-wide near-Earth space rock that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 when initial observation indicated a probability of up to three percent that it could hit Earth on April 13, 2029. However, in 2006 scientists ruled that date out, determining that Apophis would pass through a gravitational keyhole – a …

Tim Curtiss Everett- The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a 4.6 magnitude earthquake has rattled the Three Lakes area near Everett. That was followed minutes later by a 3.5 magnitude aftershock near the city of Monroe, some 30 miles northeast of Seattle. Multiple aftershocks have been reported in Monroe, and there were aftershocks recorded in …