Huge Mysterious Sinkhole Destroys Pavement of Arizona Road

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282971/Mystery-giant-sinkhole-opens-gaping-chasms-measuring-SIX-FEET-deep-500-feet-pavement-Arizona-roadway.html Mystery as giant sinkhole opens gaping chasms measuring SIX FEET deep across 500 feet of pavement on Arizona roadway By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:00 EST, 22 February 2013 | UPDATED: 11:40 EST, 22 February 2013 A giant sinkhole opened on an Arizona road and ensnared two cars on Wednesday, […]

Powerful 7.6 magnitude quake hits Costa Rica

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198769/Costa-Rica-Earthquake-Powerful-7-6-magnitude-quake-hits-country.html A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic, but officials said there was only one reported death, from a heart attack. The USGS said the 8:42am quake struck about 38 miles from the town of Liberia. The magnitude […]

Southern Californian buildings sway in ‘sonic boom’ earthquake but no one is hurt

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136690/Southern-Californian-buildings-sway-sonic-boom-earthquake-hurt.html By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 14:12 EST, 28 April 2012 | UPDATED: 14:12 EST, 28 April 2012 Southern Californians were shaken out of bed Saturday morning by a small earthquake that rattled homes across the Inland Empire region and caused buildings to sway in downtown Los Angeles. The magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck at 8:07 a.m. […]

Earthquakes strike coasts of Oregon and California within minutes of each other

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2128565/Coasts-Oregon-California-struck-unusually-active-day-earthquakes.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 01:14 EST, 12 April 2012 | UPDATED: 04:20 EST, 12 April 2012 A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon on Wednesday and was followed a minute later by a smaller quake off the coast of central California. The tremors came hours after Mexico and Indonesia were […]

Indonesia issues new tsunami alert for aftershock

http://news.yahoo.com/indonesia-issues-tsunami-alert-aftershock-111733094.html By FAKHRURRADZIE GADE | Associated Press – 9 mins ago BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A massive earthquake off Indonesia’s western coast triggered tsunami fears across the Indian Ocean on Wednesday, sending residents in coastal cities fleeing to high ground in cars and on the backs of motorcycles. A strong aftershock nearly three hours later sparked […]

Mexico hit by ‘strong, long’ 7.4 magnitude earthquake damaging 800 homes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117791/Mexico-earthquake-7-4-magnitude-quake-hits-Oaxaca-Mexico-City-reported-fatalities.html Reports of whole apartment buildings swaying and people fleeing to the streets Epicenter was closer to Oaxaca than Mexico City Malia Obama, teenage daughter of U.S. president, is staying currently By Emma Reynolds PUBLISHED: 13:42 EST, 20 March 2012 | UPDATED: 17:14 EST, 20 March 2012 An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 shook […]

Rubber ‘cloaking device’ could make buildings immune to earthquakes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2101436/Cloaking-device-make-buildings-invisible-earthquakes.html Pressurised rubber would ‘divert’ tremors from building Based on advances in invisibility Technique could protect reactors and skyscrapers By Rob Waugh Last updated at 10:16 AM on 15th February 2012 A ‘cloaking device’ could one day make skyscrapers ‘invisible’ – and immune – to earthquakes, researchers believe. The technique would use pressurised rubber to […]

Will it spark an earthquake? Fears over plans to pour 24 million gallons of water – and $43 MILLION – into Oregon volcano to see if it can create electricity

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086985/Newberry-Volcano-Engineers-pour-24-million-gallons-water-Oregon-volcano-create-electricity.html By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:31 PM on 15th January 2012 Engineers are set to pour 24 million gallons of water into a dormant volcano in Oregon to test whether it can create a renewable source of energy that does not rely on the weather. Water will be pumped into the Newberry […]

Fracking DID cause ELEVEN earthquakes in Ohio last year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083681/Fracking-cited-official-cause-Ohios-11-earthquakes-year.html By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:41 PM on 8th January 2012 Environmental experts are now certain that the recent earthquakes in Ohio and Oklahoma were direct results of the practice of fracking nearby, a controversial process used to obtain natural gas. Conservationists theorized that hydrolic fracturing- the formal name of the fracking […]