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Earthquake with 5.1 magnitude in San Jose today

Michele @Aquitaine24 (12000) • San Jose, California 25 Oct 22

This morning we had an earthquake about 12 miles east of San Jose, with a magnitude about 5.1. That is the preliminary estimate. It is the biggest quake in the area in nearly a decade....

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Grandbaby geologist

Denise @petatonicsca (7070) • Japan 10 May 20

My four and a half year old granddaughter loves rocks. Like most kids, she would bring them home in her pockets from the time she could walk around the playground. With our communication being limited to Facetime right now, I've...

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Knockan Crag

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 27 Jul 19

The road heading north from Ullapool, in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, passes beneath a mile-long cliff that dominates the landscape. This is Knockan Crag, which tells a violent story that dates from before the time of the...

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A short guide to rocks

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 3 Dec 18

A rock is simply an accumulation of mineral particles. These can be loose sand (to form sandstone), sticky clay (as in mudstone), the fossilised remains of living creatures (as in limestone), or crystals that become welded...

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The crevice in Africa.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 6 Apr 18

Sometimes I feel that I only listen to stupid news. I had read all the problems between Spain´s king Felipe´s mother and wife. I had taken sides even. Yet only today I learned about the giant crevice that is separating Africa in...

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Anyone knows about plate tectonics?!!!!

ANAYA @ANAYAtair (128) 27 Jul 17

I was reading about plate tectonics... And I have a qs now... I searched ..but could not find a proper explanation... Anyone knows the answer?!!! Can transform plate boundaries sometime act as convergent plate boundaries?Is...

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I drew the BLUE chip!!!

Carmela @Carmelanirel2 (8085) • United States 12 Nov 15

I really shouldn't be here, but I have my math work done and my Geology shouldn't take too much time to finish and I just had to write this if for nothing else than the memory of it and the day I drew the blue one. Let me go back...

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Dam site

Abhni @phoonk (341) • India 8 Aug 15

Hello friends, I am going for a 10 days industrial training in NHPC (National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited, India) with my friends. Very excited to learn new things. Dam sites are very interesting to visit. I have...

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Old Earth? Young Earth?

Chiang_Mai_boy @Chiang_Mai_boy (3882) • Thailand 9 Mar 12

Three hundred and fifty years ago James Ussher the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland calculated the age of the earth using the Bible as his reference. He established the first day of creation as Sunday 23...

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earthquake is to earth as 'what'quake is to other planets?

murkie @murkie (1103) • Philippines 27 Aug 11

i've recently read articles about earthquakes. and among these i encountered this question. well, not exactly in that form. but the concept is there. ifever there is a tremor in mars, would it be called a marsquake? or maybe in...

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Do you study geology?

bololobo @bololobo (177) • Thailand 1 Oct 10

Geology is the Earth science. There many fields of geology as geophysical, peotroleum, mineral... Are you interested in those things ? Let's share.

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I am NOT a domestic goddess

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (64169) • United States 28 Sep 10

But I guess I'm bored with no roommate to talk to... why? Well, because I did some cleaning. No, not in my front room, but in my bedroom! I got 4 shelves dusted. I took all my stuffed animals and ran them in the dryer...

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How does the Big Bang Theory make sense?

NikkiNQ @NikkiNQ (9) • United States 25 Jul 09

Okay, so I recently took a Geology class that had an emphasis in the Big Bang Theory. I've also taken Chemistry, Biology, and other science classes that have all had an emphasis in the Big Bang Theory. Through all of these...

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Geology means?

MUTHUNAGAPPANAN @MUTHUNAGAPPANAN (111) 9 Mar 09

Morden Geology has for its aim the deciphering of the whole evolution of the earth from the time of the earliest records that can be recognized in the rocks to the present day. Geology is by no means without practical importance...

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Surprising fact

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 16 Aug 08

I found out a surprising little factoid about volcanoes today. Like a hot headed bully, one volcano can push another volcano to erupt if it isn't quite dormant but isn't ready to blow it's stack while the other one is having a...

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new york's volcano!!!

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 31 Jul 08

New York has it all, including a tiny volcano in New York Harbor. Smug New Yorkers who revel in California's frequent natural disasters should be reminded that we too are liable to get a few shakes of our...

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California's Un-Zipping

CraftyCorner @CraftyCorner (5600) • United States 12 May 08

Looking at this picture of recent and current quakes, it looks like California has a zipper and it's getting unzipped. The 'zipper' is along the Hayward and San Andreas fault lines in red. * The provided Link gives you the...

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Glass... solid? or liquid?

MommaOfAllTrades @MommaOfAllTrades (969) • Canada 30 Oct 07

Ok all you geologist genious of MyLot! Let us hear your take on this one. Is Glass a solid? or a liquid? My daughter's science book says it's a liquid, hubby says there's no way. I'm researching on the internet and want to know...

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The Flood - is this more Proof that it Really Happened.

Eskimo @Eskimo (2315) 19 Jul 07

According to a report on the BBC website, Britain was attached to mainland Europe until less than 200,000 years ago see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6904675.stm It would appear that a massive 'Deluge' of water cut the...

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Expanding earth theory?

glra2222 @glra2222 (491) • Australia 5 May 07

How many have heard of this - apparently a small minority of people believe that the earth is expanding - and that the "pangea" supercontinent a long time ago actually covered the earth. This theory was actually provided a long...

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