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“I'm very scared. I heard that the water will be crashing down here”

Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims fled areas near the epicenter Saturday, fearful of floods from rivers blocked by landslides rattled loose in this week's powerful temblor. via Journal Gazette

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“It is possible that we could build in the near future some houses where people could live for two or three years, but some people would rather accept subsidies and look for housing from their relatives and friends”

Rescue workers in China uncovered a small miracle on Saturday -- 33 people pulled to safety after being trapped for 119 hours under the debris from Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake. via Canada.com

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A STRONG aftershock early today rocked the southwest Chinese province that is struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake. via News.com.au

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“I'm very scared. I heard that the water will be crashing down here”

Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims fled areas near the epicenter Saturday, fearful of floods from rivers blocked by landslides rattled loose in this week's powerful temblor.

Soldiers carried older people out of Beichuan town _ one of the areas hit hardest by the magnitude 7.9 quake Monday _ while survivors cradled babies on a road jammed with vehicles and people.

The evacuation underscored the jitters running through the disaster zone. A severe aftershock _ the second in two days and measured by the U.S. Geological Survey at magnitude 6 _ shook the area early Sunday for 45 seconds, causing people to run into the streets. Read more

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Geologists in eastern Texas are keeping an eye on a 900-foot wide sinkhole that could get bigger during the next big rain. via Daily India

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“It should not open the door to use the ESA to regulate greenhouse gases. It is not the appropriate tool for addressing climate change”

London, May 15: Polar bears have been listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act , rather than endangered. via Daily India

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“This is a very dangerous earthquake”

Local Chinese officials said up to 5,000 people died and another 10,000 were injured Monday in a powerful earthquake in the southwestern part of the country. via Daily India

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“The lithosphere of a planet is the rigid part. On Earth, the lithosphere is the part that breaks during an earthquake”

We knew Mars was cold, but new observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought. via Universe Today

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“I can't help but think the syndrome will have an impact on the number of mosquitos and moths this year”

Scientists are still baffled by a deadly syndrome that is continuing to plague bat populations in Dorset and throughout the Northeast, according to national and state wildlife organizations. via Manchester Journal

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“Had the polar bear been listed prior to January 9 as the law required, that lease sale could not have moved forward without some substantial additional review of the impacts to polar bears”

Polar bears will now be listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act. via CNN

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A preliminary notice from the U.S. Geological Survey says the temblor occurred at 11:55 p.m. Wednesday and was estimated at magnitude-3.3. The quake was centered 5 miles south-southeast of the town of Parkfield ... via SF Gate

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Trace Systems Inc., a McLean, Virginia based systems integrator and technical services firm that provides comprehensive IT, communications, and other C4ISR services and solutions for the U.S. defense, homeland ... via Earth Times

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SPENDING TIME in one of the many parks in the District can be good for your head. via Express

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Volunteers will be needed to repair the trailhead and reconstruct trail bridges on the Hummocks and Birth of a Lake trails near the end of the main west-side highway to Mount St. via News-Register

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“Reading some of the accounts, you'd get the impression Twitter seemed to alert the USGS to the news”

The world had real-time news about China's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what was being touted Tuesday as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news. via The Age

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“The Chinese economy, of course, will be hit first and the effect on the Japanese economy will come after that”

May 13, 2008 7:28 AM By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP 1 hr 24 ago: Economic jolt from China's quake seen as limited 4 hrs ago: Economic jolt from quake seen as limited People evacuate office buildings after a ... via Examiner.com

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“It's showing what mankind's activities will do and how the earth will relate to it how it responds to the stress that man's doing.”

On day six of the sinkhole in Daisetta, geologists were digging a second hole. This one on the edge of the gaping crater. via KVUE

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“We also need medical workers to save the injured people here”

People evacuate office buildings after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Beijing Monday, May 12, 2008. via The South Mississippi Sun Herald

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“We do know that they're in the streams”

By TOM HESTER Jr. * Associated Press Writer * May 12, 2008 TRENTON, N.J. _ New Jersey lawmakers were told Monday that it is uncertain whether trace amounts of medications found in the state's drinking water can ... via Courier News

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As if killer bees and kudzu weren't enough, the southern United States may soon have another invasive species to contend with - giant Burmese pythons capable of swallowing deer and alligators whole. via Free Republic

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AN earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck China's Sichuan province today, less than 100km from the provincial capital of Chengdu, the US Geological Survey said on its website. via News.com.au

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“Now they want to shoot them. Fine. But what happens if there are unforeseen implications from wiping out the region's top predator, like an explosion of rabbits and rats?”

BARSTOW - As the sun rose over the Mojave Desert, researcher Kristina Drake approached with caution as a creature with weary eyes, a scuffed carapace and skin as rough as rhino hide peered at her from the ... via Los Angeles Times

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“It was the best annual meeting we've ever had”

John Clayton: History just rolls on in the form of Segway 21 hours, 21 minutes ago HERE'S THE thing about history. via UnionLeader.com

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More than 50 people from the greater Rothschild-Schofield area will take part in this year's Muscular Dystrophy Association "lock-up" May 20. via Wausau Daily Herald

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“The gut feel would be, man, you've got carriers now that are twice as big as the old carriers, so the hazard distance must be twice as great”

Since the government reported last year that liquefied natural gas spilled from a tanker could ignite a fire intense enough to burn people a mile away, researchers have tried to determine how much more ... via Athens Banner-Herald

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HAGATNA, Guam- An undersea earthquake off Guam with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 shook the U.S. territory Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. via Telegram & Gazette

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Marion and Polk counties - Dutch Bros. Coffee locations throughout Oregon are joining with the Muscular Dystrophy Association to donate all proceeds from coffee sales today to fund ALS research. via Statesman Journal

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New Mexico will get help from the federal government to more accurately assess its water resources and plan for future needs under a measure signed by President Bush. via KDBC

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My Eye Media , an industry leader in post-production technical services and a pioneering specialist in providing unbiased clinical QC analysis, today announced the addition of Codecqual to its expanding roster ... via Business Wire

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An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale rumbled off the coast of Honshu, Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Wednesday. via Daily India

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Gary Sinise and Robert Duvall will lead a star-studded festival to be held May 14-18, 2008 at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. via National Ledger

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“Everybody knew of Terraserver as a Microsoft site.”

News By Robert McMillan Microsoft's TerraServer-USA satellite imagery project has been slapped with a trademark lawsuit from a small North Carolina company with a confusingly similar name. via CIO

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“The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”

Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let's look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget. via The Capital Letter

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A strong earthquake hit off the coast of Japan early Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, waking up people 100 miles away in Tokyo. via WHDH

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Furmanite Corporation , a worldwide technical services firm, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss first quarter results on Thursday, May 8, 2008, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time . via Earth Times

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Posted by Xeni Jardin , May 6, 2008 7:49 PM Stephanie Holinka of Sandia National Laboratories tells Boing Boing, We are sad to report the death of former Sandia Labs Director Morgan Sparks. via Boing Boing

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“Quakes of this size are strong enough to be felt in dense population areas, especially in high rise buildings”

A small earthquake shook the Washington area Tuesday, and some residents reported feeling tremors, the U.S. Geological Survey said. via WSLS

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Top Story Headlines Police searching for deadly hit and run driver El Paso Police are searching for the driver responsible for hitting and killing an elderly woman as she pushed a 2-year-old in a stroller ... via KVIA-TV El Paso

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Residents are waking up to an earthquake in St. Louis County, Mo. There are no reports of damage from the early morning temblor. via The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Money raised in memory of Ed Childers Big Ed's Burrito Ride rolled from Charlie's Harley Davidson in an effort to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. via The State Journal

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Thu May 01, 2008 at 07:55:17 AM PDT Add another investigation onto the pile for Sen. via Daily Kos

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Today, Nuclear Solutions, Inc. issued the following statement: Kentucky Fuel Associates announced it will be assigning the $625,000.00 grant money it was awarded from the State Of Kentucky through a ... via Earth Times

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Main Category: Muscular Dystrophy / ALS Article Date: 02 May 2008 - 5:00 PDT Throughout the month of May, the Muscular Dystrophy Association will highlight the 17th annual national ALS Awareness Month by ... via Medical News Today

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In the second earthquake to hit in little over a week, Humboldt County was shaken by a 5.2-magnitude temblor at just after 8 p.m. Tuesday. via Times-Standard

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A strong earthquake struck near the Aleutian Islands on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. via MyFOX Atlanta

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“The geophysical survey provides objective, unbiased information and will enable scientists to better define areas for future exploration and development.”

NEWS RELEASE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ************************* Scientists collect data to aid Afghanistan reconstruction Policymakers, potential private investors and the public ... via SooToday

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The tremor, which occurred at 6:28 a.m. at The Geysers, a group of steam-powered production facilities, had a depth of less than a mile, on the border of Sonoma and Lake counties, the USGS said. via SFGate

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A 5.3 MAGNITUDE earthquake struck in the mountains of northern California today, the US Geological Survey reported. via News.com.au

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