Why You’ll Love a Mac - A Mac is the ultimate upgrade. The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. As the shaking started, everyone in the room began to laugh. Earthquakes are common in Japan—that one was the third of the week—and the participants were, after all, at a seismology conference. Then everyone in the room checked the time. Seismologists know that how long an earthquake lasts is a decent proxy for its magnitude. When Goldfinger looked at his watch, it was quarter to three. It was March. Oh, shit, Goldfinger thought, although not in dread, at first: in amazement. For a moment, that was pretty cool: a real-time revolution in earthquake science. In the end, the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more than eighteen thousand people, devastated northeast Japan, triggered the meltdown at the Fukushima power plant, and cost an estimated two hundred and twenty billion dollars.
Bernd Schneider's Star Trek Site Astronomers discover the biggest thing in the Universe There's some pretty big stuff out there in the Universe, but how big is the biggest? According to a team of Hungarian-US scientists led by Prof Lajos Balazs, the largest regular formation in the Universe is a ring of nine galaxies 7 billion light years away and 5 billion light years wide. Though not visible from Earth, the newly discovered feature covers a third of our sky. The ring was revealed by nine Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) originating from the nine galaxies. GRBs are the brightest, most energetic events in the cosmos, putting out as much energy in seconds as the Sun will in its entire lifetime. They're caused by supernovae or hypernovae – supermassive stars collapse into neutron stars or black holes in times ranging from milliseconds to a few hours. In this case, the observed GRB's indicate that the nine galaxies are positioned in a ring shaped like a shell. If it was visible to us, the ring would cover 36 percent of the sky, making it 70 times bigger than a full moon.
Star Trek Wiki - Memory Alpha Eclipse Calculator – Eclipses in Salem, Oregon, U.S.A. +1 this page: Follow us on Google+: Like/share this page: Follow us on facebook: Eclipse visible in Salem – Oct 8, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse The animation shows approximately what the eclipse looks like from the night side of earth. This is an approximate representation. This total lunar eclipse is fully visible in Salem. The total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon, as the moon turns red. More about the Oct 8, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse Local times for eclipse in Salem on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 Click on the Sun/Moon symbol in the “Looks like” column to see what the eclipse looks like during the different phases of the event. Times are local for Salem (PDT - Pacific Daylight Time). Other eclipses visible in Salem Sun & Moon Calculators for Salem
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