Published: August 23, 2010 from Barkley32002 Noticing a Magnitude-8.0 Earthquake Months Later Noticing a Magnitude-8.0 Earthquake Months Later To the amazement of seismologists, they missed a magnitude-8.0 earthquake last year. "It is sort of shocking," said Thorne Lay, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led a team that uncovered the seismic fingerprints months later. "If we hadn't done the careful analysis, we would have missed it." Magnitude-8 earthquakes are known as great earthquakes for their ferocious destructive power, and networks of seismometers can pinpoint much smaller earthquakes. In this case, however, the great earthquake was hidden by a greater quake. The greater earthquake, of magnitude 8.1, struck Sept. 29, 2009, off the Samoa Islands in the Pacific. That in itself was a surprise to seismologists, because there have not been any known magnitude-8 earthquakes around the Tonga trench, where the Pacific plate slips beneath the Australian plate, leading seismologists to believe that the fault there is well lubricated and does not build up enough stress to generate great earthquakes. Still, the two tectonic plates are speeding toward each other there faster than anywhere else in the world, some 10 inches a year. The resulting tsunami, which swept into Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, killing more than 100 people, also puzzled scientists. The magnitude-8.1 earthquake did not occur at the plate boundary ...

After battering the Caribbean, Hurricane Earl is moving towards the US. . Follow us on twitter at twitter.com .

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said that Hurricane Earl has strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane. Forecasters say it could strengthen into a Category 3 hurricane as soon as Monday, probably while east of Puerto Rico. (Aug. 29)

Rajasthan has been hit by another Swine Flu (H1N1) wave. Reports claim that over a hundred are infected with the epidemic and over five have been reported dead. www.istream.in

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The US is marking 5 years since the devastating hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. Memorial services will be held on Sunday to remember the 1300 people killed. New Orleans took the most severe blow as its levee system catastrophically failed, flooding 80 per cent of the city. And despite reconstruction efforts, the number of homeless is on the rise.

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