Category Archives: oceans

Iceberg Fertilizer

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Iceberg is a large piece of ice formed from freshwater that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water.. Water picks up other stuff when it freezes whether as dissolved or scraped up. … Continue reading →

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Surprising Findings about Japan’s 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense regional geodetic network (allowing measurements of earth movement to be gathered from GPS … Continue reading →

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Arctic sea ice ties for smallest ever

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Even at its biggest, Arctic sea ice extent this winter was among the smallest ever seen, apparently tying with 2006 for the least amount of ice covering the region around the North Pole, U.S. researchers reported. Sea ice on the … Continue reading →

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Japanese once-in-a-millennium earthquake tilted the world’s axis by 25cm

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

The earthquake that struck Japan on Friday was so powerful that it actually moved the whole planet by 25cm, experts say.According to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology the 9.0 magnitude ‘quake was so powerful it shifted the axis … Continue reading →