The origin of life and rotten eggs is the work of a Swiss artist and is the portrayal of French singer Lucien Ginsburg, who died 20 years ago. The artist began collecting cigarette filters in March 2008 and has collected 20,394 that formed the basis for the creation of the work.
Source for earthquakes. On March 11 this is among the five most intense in the world, as estimated by seismological centers. Looking back, in fact it is estimated that only six times the earth trembled harder.
Valdivia, 1960
Alaska, 1964 In 1964 and in the Great Pacific Ring of Fire, the earth shook in Alaska. It was on 27 March. It lasted about 4 minutes and destroyed in Anchorage, the Kenai Peninsula and fjords of Alaska. A giant wave hit the coast of Canada. He raised the ground several meters.
is known that the January 1700 earthquake broke the Cascadia region, a region divided between Canada and the United States, and possibly its magnitude was about 9. The earthquake of 9 degrees magnitude on the Richter scale, occurred in the Cascadia subduction zone. The length of the fault rupture was about 1000 km, with an average slip of 20 meters. The famous Cascadia earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit the Japanese coast.
Arica, 1968
The region of Arica, Peru then trembled as he had never done in August 1968. He was one of the strongest and destroyers that have befallen the city of Arequipa in its history. The epicenter was located off the coast. An estimated 700 people were killed. In town, there was no building that had no cracks or damage.
Kamchatka, 1952
On November 4, 1952 an earthquake occurred in the Kamchatka region of Russia (then belonging to the USSR). Resulted in a series of tsunamis that caused destruction and loss of life around the Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands. There were no fatalities. The tsunami reached Hawaii, Japan, Alaska, Chile and New Zealand, but there were no fatalities.
Sumatra-Andaman
, 2004
On December 26, 2004 shook the Indian Ocean known as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 9 points, which caused the terrible Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 people. The earthquake caused a series of devastating tsunamis inundating coastal communities across most of southern and southeastern Asia, including parts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand.
Sendai, 2011
The earthquake of March 11 this has left some of the most shocking scenes that you remember from the tsunami in Southeast Asia. On this occasion, the language of water has been higher than some Pacific islands. tremor becomes therefore the largest in Japan in 140 years verified the fifth largest among the scientific record.
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Many studies have attempted to resolve the question of what makes humans different from other agencies looking for extra features compared to the closest evolutionary relatives. Scientists at the current job have found interesting human specific features considering what was lost during evolution. Source World War II "and has urged its citizens to" build a new Japan. "
Khan has warned that the chaotic situation experienced by Japanese will take several days because the power supply will soon re-established in many areas and may even cause new blackouts. One of the first acts of the executive has been authorize companies Tokyo Electric Power and Tohoku Electric Power to make power cuts of up to three hours a day, starting tomorrow, to ensure supply areas in the northeast. Kan has acknowledged that the situation was "worrying" and warned that the recovery "will not be easy "but that Japan achieved" made in the past. "
One of the places of greatest concern to authorities is the nuclear plant in Fukushima I, 240 kilometers from Tokyo, where there is a risk that result in another explosion similar to yesterday at the nuclear plant. The authorities also ruled that the initiation of a core meltdown process in reactors 1 and 3. Naoto Kan has admitted that the situation is serious but is not comparable to disaster that occurred in the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl in 1986. "radiation has been released into the air, but there is no data which suggest that it has released a large amount", as Prime Minister Japanese. "This is totally different from the Chernobyl accident. We are working to prevent damage from spreading," he added
Earlier, the minister spokesman Yukio Edan, explained that the explosion may occur in the secondary containment vessel Reactor 3 due to an accumulation of hydrogen, as happened yesterday in the reactor 1. Nor is possible that had triggered a meltdown process in reactors 1 and 3. "We believe there is a possibility that a partial meltdown occurred. It is within the reactor. We can not see it. In any case, we assume that the merger has taken place," said Edan about the number 1 reactor of the plant. "On the reactor number 3, we assume also that there is a possibility that another meltdown taking place while we take steps to avoid it," Japanese spokesman said the minister.
Source (14.15 English time) and was centered 40 kilometers deep, with an intensity 5 on the Japanese scale of 7, which focuses on the scope of the quake.
tonight's tremor was the latest of more than 150 aftershocks of the devastating earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale on Friday that killed more than 600 dead and thousands missing in a large swath of the coast eastern Japan, according to the latest count.
Just ten minutes later, another earthquake, this 4.8-magnitude on the Richter scale, struck the coast of Miyagi, another of the provinces devastated by the earthquake on Friday. Its intensity was milder, three on the Japanese scale, because its epicenter was 80 kilometers deep.
Source plate (an area constant clash of tectonic plates, where one gets under the other) and the seismic waves reach the sea floor caused the tsunami. "Large earthquakes, like this one or that of Chile last year, a similar-size, are associated with subduction zones," explains Maria Jose Jurado, CSIC geologist who worked in an area south of where it started earthquake.
To get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe magnitude of the quake, of 8.8 on the Richter scale, "only had to look in their mirrors. "There have been dozens of aftershocks, some as high as 7 or 6 points. In other parts of the world, these earthquakes would be catastrophic: just remember that the Haitian or of L `Aquila were seven and five-plus, respectively," says this expert.
"If an earthquake of the magnitude of Japan had taken place elsewhere the world would have been a total destruction, we would have no pictures, "said the geologist.
The reason is that Japan is in a special area of \u200b\u200bseismic activity and the Japanese live with earthquakes and tsunamis." They are born and living with earthquakes is constant earthquakes of 7 or 6 degrees and therefore are highly qualified in every way "describes Jury.
The preparation of the country reaches every aspect: there is an early warning network to rapidly reach the people, this is educated in how to act (where to stand, what structural elements are more stable, placed under tables, etc..) And also how to construct buildings and infrastructure (see the images of the earthquake in Tokyo can be seen that the buildings dance, but do not break).
Death toll rises at times, exceeding by far the twenty, thirty people there are others missing. The earthquake has killed at least nineteen deaths, numerous injuries, fires, power outages and mass evacuations of residents amid fears of new tsunamis.
The earthquake so far has caused a ten-meter tsunami that has devastated everything in its path, including houses, cars, boats and farms, according to Japan's NHK television network.
The quake triggered a fire at the nuclear power of the Tohoku Electric Power Company in the town of Onagawa Japan, as reported by Kyodo news agency. Previously, the company had said it had received no information on whether any problems had arisen at the plant following the earthquake.
On the other hand, the authorities of the Fukushima prefecture, where the Power Company Tokyo Electric has a nuclear plant, have ensured that the reactor coolant system still works, thus refuting previous information indicated otherwise.
As the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the four Japanese nuclear power plants over the sea near the area where the earthquake occurred has been closed for security reasons. The IAEA said in a statement that is trying to collect more information to know which countries and nuclear facilities could be jeopardized by the tsunami from the quake.
media Japanese media have reported that the Government has decided to declare an emergency situation of nuclear energy, something that happens when it is confirmed that there have been radioactive leaks at nuclear power plants or when the cooling system is damaged reactor.
The population has been evacuated to higher ground. Besides, the earthquake, there have been numerous aftershocks and the capital Tokyo, some buildings have trembled. Weather Service warns that a strong Japanese Repila could arise again in a few hours in the north of the island.
Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, has ensured the population has reacted calmly and that the buildings have answered "good" because of its architecture, but have posted at least 200 buildings collapsed in the northeast.
The Japan Government has indicated that the damage was "great." The Japanese authorities have asked Tokyoites to stay in the center of the city and not try to get to their homes if they live in the suburbs, because the trains do not work today. The Shinkansen bullet train or canceled continue throughout the day, according to the company JR East.
The epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean 130 miles Ojika Peninsula, at a depth of six miles, in the same area two days ago there was another earthquake measuring 7.3 degrees on the Richter scale that caused no damage.
Source The finding not only surprising, but if he repeats a lot, that is, if there are many more groups of mature galaxies at this stage of the cosmos, scientists would have to rethink some of their theories regarding the formation of large structures scale of the universe, say the authors of the discovery.
The galaxy cluster called CL-JI449 +0856 (the name corresponds to its position in the sky) and is already very similar to the groups of galaxies in the universe today, such as Virgo, the nearest to Milky Way. Telescopes, to observe the most distant cosmic act as time machines because they see celestial objects as they were when they emitted the light now reaching their cameras, light has been traveling for billions of years at a constant speed of nearly 300,000 kilometers per second. So no one knows how it is now CL-JI449 +0856 because the light is emitting take billions of years to reach Earth. Astronomers measure distances in the sky with a parameter called redshift (z), which in the case of this galaxy cluster is 2.07.
Source the people thought they had broken the Civil War and the bombs are. But no, still more than four years before the war began and exploit what they saw on the roofs of their houses was a space rock
came from a dangerous asteroid
qualified to Earth by NASA.
It has taken 80 years to achieve an investigator would recreate what happened that cold night of December 8, 1932. José Maria Madiedo, the University of Huelva
, learned of this event by chance and decided to end the mystery surrounding this meteorite, which was never located any trace.
Arroyomolinos Madiedo visited and asked all the village elders about their memories of that night in which a large ball of fire came to town on their heads and exploded with a deafening noise. There were no injuries, but jumped in the air the crystals, some walls collapsed and there were faults in the power plant, which left them to sit in darkness.
"I tracked down an elderly woman who was eight years old then and still remember"
, Madiedo points.
Although later there he went to look for remnants of the meteorite, not found. He had totally disintegrated 16 kilometers high, but had been losing ground since it entered Earth's atmosphere, the researcher has discovered.
Thanks to new information technologies and research on nuclear explosions and their effects, made in USA, Madiedo been able to find out what is stuck in the mind of the girl was a fragment of the asteroid 1990HA, which is in the long list of more than a thousand potentially hazardous asteroids for NASA, that is, they are relatively close to our planet and are of sufficient size to cause catastrophic damage. The impact of an asteroid was what came out 65 million years ago with the dinosaurs.
The rock in question, which came off the 1990HA as it passed near Earth was about 18 meters long, as a five-story building, and came from outer space at a speed of 54,000 kilometers per hour, which led to reach thousands of degrees in temperature when entering the atmófera, where he was losing its mass to explode.
Source (Impiva) of a large unmanned aircraft autonomy that attempt to cross the Atlantic in 2012, on a flight scheduled out of the Canary Islands to Brazil.
As reported by the Generalitat Valenciana, the aircraft, weighing nearly 20 kilos, will be ready to fly in bad weather and have a range of more than 20 flight hours, although in recent tests flown by the company have achieved the 30 hours of battery life, bringing to prototype "a high level only reached by two international companies with very high prestige."
Today, the mini drones are used in research and surveillance, navigation, weather data collection or purchase where the use of conventional manned aircraft is dangerous or difficult.
For the development of certain elements, Alicante company has collaborated with the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Universitat de Girona and University Cardenal Herrera CEU, Valencia.
Source University of Pennsylvania in the United States have discovered four new Brazilian species of fungi of the genus 'Ophiocordyceps'. The characteristics of these organisms are complex and unique digital magazine published in PLoS ONE. "
fungi discovered by Harry Evans and David Hughes, belong to a group of fungi 'zombificadores' that infect and manipulate the behavior ants, killing them after they take them to a key location for the dispersal of their spores.
The work represents an important milestone because it focuses on complex biological interactions hitherto unknown in threatened habitats. The four new species come from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil, the most degraded biodiversity point of the planet, given that 92 percent of the original territory occupied gone.
The authors of the study show that each of these four species is highly specialized in a kind of ants and has a set of adaptations and spore types to ensure infection. The life cycle of these fungi that infect, manipulate and kill the ants before they develop spores producing offspring of their heads is very complicated. The research provides the identification of tools to advance and ask how forest fragmentation affects these dynamics.
Source English CET, the next generation of its iPad, a tablet with which tried to modify the market for reading and media consumption in April last year. The saturate the market constantly with new versions of their products is a tradition of Mac products factory, led by Steve Jobs, who is on medical leave since Jan. 17. Right now the 'Apple Store' is out of service.
Apple has shown signs of renewal in his usual secretive. All that has sent the media is an invitation to the event today where a calendar, marked with the date, suggests the top corner of one of his famous tablets. Analysts estimate the company sold about 15 million tablets last year and expected to include a number of improvements such as the inclusion of a camera, a lighter weight and a higher resolution screen, like that offered by the new model iPhone, launched in June.
The iPad is a tablet that provides Internet access either via WiFi or wireless connection via 3G networks. In Spain it costs between 488 and 793 euros. Among the major defects have been attributed to is the weight (between 680 and 730 grams) and the fact that the brightness of the screen does not allow reading or content viewing for outdoor, sunny. In this regard, Amazon, competition, hastened to introduce a new Kindle reader, designed with electronic ink, which allows reading outdoors. Cutting the price to 100 euros, has managed to steal a march on Apple in the market for book sales.
Source intense earthquakes, "admits Luis Suarez, president of the Bar Association of Geologists (ICOG). However Suarez acknowledged that Spain could suffer a destructive earthquake" soon, in a not too distant future. "
" Today by do not yet have the tools to know exactly when it will result in an earthquake-indica-ICOG president so he resorts to historical statistics. "According to that statistic the last major earthquake occurred on 25 December 1884, in Arenas del Rey, Granada, with a magnitude of between 6.5 and 6.7. 900 people died, 2,000 were injured and destroyed more than a thousand home. Since then "almost every day there are microterremotos in southern Spain but none relevant, as they rarely exceed 4 degrees on the Richter scale," says Suarez
Indeed, in the south of the Iberian Peninsula where there is an area of \u200b\u200bsubduction between the Eurasian Plate and the African plate, the plate being in the middle of the Alboran Sea, concentrates the highest number of earthquakes. In particular in the provinces of Malaga, Almeria, Granada and Murcia but also in the Pyrenees, between Navarra and Huesca, there is another risk area, but less intense.
Still, "in our country we have a moderate level of seismic activity compared with other areas of the world, "says Luis Suárez. The major earthquake that has taken place in Spain was in 1829 in Torrevieja, Alicante, with a magnitude of 6.9 on the Richter scale where 400 people died. In the last 600 years there have been 10 major earthquakes in Spain.
of an earthquake of this nature, "the damage is unavoidable, but Spain could deal with it" guarantees "because recent years have been applied rigorously anti-seismic measures on columns, beams and walls with stronger armor and reinforcements the foundation. Furthermore, "has placed particular emphasis on applying sismorresistententes standards in new construction," the president of ICOG.
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