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Category Archives: Oceanography
Speaking of Meltdown: Arctic Ice Reaches Maximum, Begins Seasonal Melt
On March 7, 2011, Arctic sea ice likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.64 million square kilometers (5.65 million square miles). The maximum extent was 1.2 million square kilometers (463,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Earth Science, Oceanography, Science, Weather
Tagged arctic, climate, weather
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Floods on the Kitakami River: Before and After
The NASA Earth Observatory page has before and after images of tsunami flooding along the Kitakami River. Flooding along the Kitakami River, Japan : Image of the Day
Posted in Disasters, Earth Science, Oceanography, Photos, Science
Tagged earthquake, Japan, tsunami
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Memo to Oregon & Washington re Tsunami: Get Ready
It Can’t Will Happen Here At 9PM on January 26, 1700 one of the world’s largest earthquakes occurred along the west coast of North America. The undersea Cascadia thrust fault ruptured along a 1000 km length, from mid Vancouver Island … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Disasters, Earth Science, History, Oceanography, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged andrew revkin, earthquake, Japan, oregon, tsunami, washington
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The Quake: “The Day The Earth Sped Up”
The shifting of tectonic plates beneath the Pacific Ocean opened up a crack about 250 miles long, causing a good portion of Earth’s crust to tumble inside. The Day the Earth Sped Up : Discovery News The earth contracted, enough … Continue reading
Posted in Disasters, Earth Science, Oceanography, Science
Tagged earthquake, Japan, tsunami
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Where Will The Radiation Blow?
Jeff Masters has been running wind direction projections from NOAA. The takeaway: Whatever radiation leaks from the blown reactors in Japan will very probably drift mostly to sea, and precipitate onto the ocean. Note the comparison to Chernobyl, emphasis added. … Continue reading →