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Analysts are expecting natural gas prices to continue falling during 2012 as overproduction and slow adoption of the fuel in the transportation and electricity generation industries continues.
Tags: ads-by-google, canada, climate-change, earth sciences, earthquakes, energy, Geology.com, Jobs, marcellus-shale, mexico, pennsylvania, south-carolina, united, united-states, virginia“ Meteorites hold a record of the chemicals that existed in the early Solar System and that may have been a crucial source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth.” Quoted from the Carnegie Institution for Science press release.
Tags: climate-change, current-events, earth sciences, earthquakes, meteorites, news, north-carolina, shale, south-carolina, space, virginiaA strong M6.7 earthquake occurred in the Negros-Cebu Region of the Philippines at 11:49 AM local time on Monday, February 6, 2012. News reports
“ Earthquakes have been documented in the northeastern Caribbean since the arrival of Columbus to the Americas.” USGS has released: “Accounts of Damage from Historical Earthquakes in the Northeastern Caribbean, to Aid in the Determination of their Location and Intensity Magnitudes”.
Recent research on Ubehebe Crater of California ’s Death Valley reveals that it last erupted about 800 years ago instead of the previously-believed date of several thousand years ago. Erik Klementti comments on this new date.
Tags: california, current-events, geology-news, middle-east, news, pennsylvania, shale, virginia, volcanoes“Eight months of ceaseless activity have covered the landscape around Chile ’s Puyehue Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex in ash. The light-colored ash appears most clearly on the rocky, alpine slopes surrounding the active vent and Puyehue’s 2,236 meter (7,336 foot)-tall caldera.” Quote from the Earth Observatory image release.
The Landslide Blog has a post with graphics about the Tumbi Quarry landslide that killed dozens of people in Papua New Guinea.
Tags: afghanistan, climate-change, earth sciences, landslide, mexico, news, pennsylvania, philippines, shale, virginia“More than 500 volcanic vents have been identified in the State of California . At least 76 of these vents have erupted, some repeatedly, during the last 10,000 yr. Past volcanic activity has ranged in scale and type from small rhyolitic and basaltic eruptions through large catastrophic rhyolitic eruptions.” Quoted from the USGS report.
“The value of mineral production in the United States increased by 12 percent in 2011 from that of 2010, suggesting that the nonfuel minerals industries, particularly metals , continued to recover from the economic recession that began in December 2007 and lasted well into 2009. The value of raw, nonfuel minerals mined in the United States was $74 billion in 2011, up from $66 billion in 2010.” Quoted from the USGS press release.
Tags: climate-change, earthquakes, energy, massachusetts, meteorites, mexico, shale, south-carolina, united, usgs, virginia“Nearly five months after severe flooding struck the region, in September 2011, parts of Pakistan ’s Sindh Province remained flooded. In January 2012, patches of standing water occur east of the Indus River.
