Tag: United States Geological Survey

A Minor Earthquake Hit New York City. How Often Does That Happen?

When Renata De Oliveira and her husband were jolted awake by a loud thud that rattled the windows of their Roosevelt Island apartment early Tuesday morning, she thought her upstairs neighbor might have taken a bad fall, or that maybe there was a problem with her building’s heating system. But the culprit, it turned out, […]

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It Could Be a Vast Source of Clean Energy, Buried Deep Underground

In the rocky soil of Lorraine, a former coal mining region near the French-German border, scientists guided a small probe one recent day down a borehole half a mile into the earth’s crust. Frothing in the water table below was an exciting find: champagne-size bubbles that signaled a potentially mammoth cache of so-called white hydrogen, […]

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Afghanistan Struck By Large Quake Days After Deadly Temblors

A powerful earthquake struck Herat Province in Afghanistan near the border with Iran early Wednesday, several days after two major quakes in the same area killed more than 800 people. The magnitude 6.3 temblor struck northwestern Afghanistan at 5:22 a.m. local time at a depth of about 10 kilometers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. […]

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