Series of aftershocks still rattling the Libertador O"Higgins area. As per USGS website 10 quakes were recorder today, measuring from 4.8 on Richetr scale to magnitude 5.9.
A solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field and stirring up geomagnetic activity around the Arctic Circle. "On March 11th," reports Paul McCrone, "the DMSP F-18 weather satellite recorded a dramatic auroral event over northern Canada."
A newly-discovered comet is plunging toward the sun and probably will not survive. The encounter is too close to the sun for human eyes to see, but the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is able to monitor the action using an opaque disk to block the sun's glare.
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Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., tracks this collective motion -- dubbed the "dark flow" -- to twice the distance originally reported.
Mar 11, 2010 - 11:22:24 AM
Chile has been put on tsunami alert after a severe aftershock rattled the country less than a fortnight after the massive quake that killed hundreds.
Mar 11, 2010 - 10:00:39 AM
Two tropical cyclones with potential to bring flooding rain and punishing winds are gathering over the tropical South Pacific Ocean as of Thursday, EST.
Mar 11, 2010 - 9:52:03 AM
A landslide swept over a village in northwest China covering dozens of homes and leaving at least 17 dead and 11 missing, state media said on Thursday.
Mar 11, 2010 - 9:32:11 AM
Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe. According to their findings, just 3 billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy exploded in a series of blasts trillions of times more powerful than any caused by an atomic bomb.
Mar 10, 2010 - 10:40:06 AM
An analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by University of California, Berkeley, University of Zurich and Princeton University physicists demonstrates that the universe - at least up to a distance of 3.5 billion light years from Earth -plays by the rules set out 95 years ago by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity.
Mar 10, 2010 - 10:38:58 AM
The low that forecasters were watching for development yesterday, March 9, strengthened into Tropical Storm Hubert, and is already making landfall in eastern Madagascar.
Mar 10, 2010 - 10:37:25 AM
Chile, struck last month by an 8.8- magnitude earthquake that killed hundreds and damaged the country's main road, may be hit by another "large" temblor in the copper-rich North, a national earthquake specialist said.
Mar 10, 2010 - 9:49:05 AM
The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be more active than last year's and poses an "above- normal" threat to the U.S. Gulf and East coasts, AccuWeather Inc. forecasters said today.
Mar 10, 2010 - 9:07:54 AM
The seismic activity in the area around Eyjafjallajökull glacier in south Iceland, which covers an active volcano, increased again last night with a series of smaller earthquakes measured between 3:40 and 5:20 am. The largest quake was 2.6 on the Richter scale.
Mar 10, 2010 - 9:07:52 AM
