In the 6.7 Northridge, CA, earthquake in 1994, 55 percent of quake-related injuries were due, not to collapsing buildings, but because of falling and breaking objects - televisions, pictures, mirrors and heavy light fixtures. While strengthening the structure of a home with seismic improvements is an important step to take...
France -- The International Energy Agency and the United States Geological Survey signed a letter of agreement in March in which they agreed to exchange information and data on the world's reserves of oil and natural gas. France -- The International Energy Agency...
HANCOCK COUNTY, MS-Drawing on the expertise of engineers and scientists, NASA, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency NIMA and the United States Geological Survey USGS have assembled the Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation JACIE team for govHANCOCK COUNTY, MS-Drawing on the expertise of engineers and scientists, NASA, the National Imagery...
Continental Resources hit a gusher today in the Rocky Mountain Region. The oil and gas explorer said its first well in the North Dakota Bakken Shale area, located in the western portion of the state, flowed at an average rate of 693 barrels of crude oil equivalent per day during...
Leonard #1-23H (10% Working Interest) DENVER -- Samson Oil & Gas Limited (AMEX: SSN) (ASX: SSN) announced today that drilling operations associated with the Leonard #1-23 H have been completed with the drilling rig being released. Previous operations saw the lateral drilled to a total depth...
Unico, Incorporated (OTCBB: UNCO), a naturalresource company in the precious metals mining sector, today announced theaddition of a new photo gallery on the company's corporate website, www.unicomining.com , showing the company and its wholly owned Deer TrailMining Company subsidiary hosting the recent United States GeologicalSurvey USGS 2008 Marysvale District Field...
By Mike Hall THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Owners of property in Topeka will pay a larger share of new aerial photographs of Shawnee County than other Shawnee Countians will, but county appraiser Mark Hixon said there is a good reason for that. Hixon...
By Mike Hall THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Owners of property in Topeka will pay a larger share of new aerial photographs of Shawnee County than other Shawnee Countians will, but county appraiser Mark Hixon said there is a good reason for that. Hixon...
VIENNA, Va. -- LGS, the subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) dedicated to serving the U.S. government community, announced today that it worked with the United States Geological Survey USGS to provide a turnkey solution that allowed the agency to officially turn over the 1.710 to 1.755 GHz spectrum in the San...
HAYWARD -- Experts have predicted the next big earthquake along the Hayward fault will be devastating to the Bay Area, and now they have a better idea of what that devastation will entail. At a news conference Tuesday at Cal State East Bay in Hayward, scientists released...
Unico, Incorporated (OTCBB: UNCO), a naturalresource company in the precious metals mining sector, today announced thatthe company and its wholly owned Deer Trail Mining Company subsidiaryhosted the recent United States Geological Survey USGS 2008 MarysvaleDistrict Field Trip at the Deer Trail Mine property. According to a report submitted by Deer...
Mesa Uranium Corp. ("Mesa") (TSX VENTURE: MZU) is pleased to announce that it has filed potash exploration permit applications with the Bureau of Land Management. The project has excellent potential for potash from both solution mining and naturally-occurring potash brines. The 25,500 acre area (40 square miles), the White Cloud...
Had Tuesday's Los Angeles earthquake happened in the Bay Area, the pipelines that carry water to Peninsula residents might not all have survived. As they proceed with their $4.3 billion project to upgrade the Hetch Hetchy water delivery system, officials with the San Francisco Public Utilities...
Originally from Denver, Steve Trimble has lived for many years in Salt Lake City and Torrey, Wayne County. When he was a child his father took the family all over the western United States as part of his employment with the U.S. Geological Survey. ...
LEADING ARTICLE THE ARCTIC The news that massive deposits of oil and gas have been found in the Arctic confirms what geologists, oil companies and governments have believed for decades: that these icy wastes house vast fossil fuel resources. But the precise estimate now made by...
July 11, 2008 A group of former high-ranking officials have called for the federal government to combine two of its largest scientific agencies to better respond to climate change. In an article last week in the journal Science, the group, which includes former heads of both the National...
Weather Underground, the nation's firstonline weather service, today announced the availability of a new onlineproduct on its web site, www.wunderground.com , that displays flood alertsfor rivers across the United States. Using data from the USGS the US Geological Survey, the product plotsriver data and forecasts on top of an...
KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland AFP — With the race for Arctic resources intensifying, the region's indigenous Inuits are raising their voices and demanding that nations bordering the Arctic Sea stop stealing their land and respect their way of life. Arctic waters could hold 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil...
ILULISSAT, Greenland AFP — Representatives of the five countries bordering the Arctic Ocean meet in Greenland on Wednesday to discuss the impact of climate change on the icy region -- and how to divide up its as-yet untapped rich resources. The summit is the first to be held...
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