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POPSPrehistoric Greek Water Works Found "The 6-acre site was girdled with a wall of huge stone blocks, built around 1250 B.C. Excavations have also uncovered several buildings - some decorated with painted plaster walls - pottery, a clay figure of a goddess, seal-stones and an amethyst vase shaped like a triton shell. Controlling a strategic road in the northeastern Peloponnese, Midea was first occupied in the later Neolithic period, in the 5th millennium B.C. It flourished during Mycenaean times and was destroyed by earthquake and fire at the end of the 13th century B.C. - after which the site diminished in size and significance. Traces of habitation have also been located from the Archaic (7th and 6th centuries B.C.), Roman and Byzantine periods."
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POPSInside a Tsunami Factory Image shows travel times of Pacific tsunamis originating from earthquakes off Chile and Alaska. Last year aboard the vessel Chikyu, a Japanese science vessel, researchers took 3D seismic images of the faultzone, the point where the North American plate is subsiding with the Filipino plate. The images they retrieved helped the researchers to pick the best spot to drill. However, in their imaging, they also managed to discover new steeper faults in the rock. Tthese near-vertical faults could be the reason why the Nankai Trough produces approximately one 8+ earthquake every 150 years.
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POPSCurious cloud formations linked to quakes The authors say that if recognisable cloud formations precede large quakes, they could be used for prediction, but other seismologists are sceptical. "There is no physical model that explains why something would suddenly occur two months before an earthquake, and then shut off and not occur again," says Mike Blanpied of the
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POPSCan We See Into the Future? Fact or myth? I find this stuff fascinating. When I checked out the display at Princeton, it was beeping and gonging like crazy. I wonder if that's a bad sign? :eek: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/bsktobsrv/nishith/basketobserver.html
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POPSReal-Time Global Scanner w/Graphic Interface Must see internet resource for all wanna-be starship science officers, weather buffs, disaster relief teams, journalists, bloggers, techies, trekkies, democrats, evangelicals, sohil, storm chasers and just about anyone! :-) Note: Top (.edu) site is for graphic decor; visit bottom (.hu) site to see scanner.
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POPSViolent quake hits Japan. Reactor leaks, but is okay. The news this morning on CNN was extremely misleading - they had the headline "Nuclear reactor leak" with an infographic showing red lines going throughout most of Japan. The graphic was actually of the quake radius, not of the extent of the leak! It seems the leak was relatively minor and apparently harmless.
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