Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Kei Furuta, managing director of Equinix Japan says the company has arranged for priority deliveries of diesel fuel so that both data centers can continue running through the blackout periods that the local utility Tokyo Electric Power...
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Over the past three months, AAM has played a vital role in responding to natural disaster events in Australia. AAM has worked closely with Governments of Queensland and Victoria, as well as Brisbane CityCouncil in pre and post...
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
A Japan Trends Map is now available from Esri. The map visualizes a heat map of aggregated reports or reports categorized by property damage, hazards, evacuations, power outages, or...
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
The 2011 Scientific Program of IUGG includes three categories of symposia and a number of workshops on a wide range of geophysical themes. These include:
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Istanbul branch of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) International Center for Private Sector in Development was opened on Friday. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Turkish State Minister Cevdet Yilmaz said Istanbul in a sense became a center...
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
The devastation following the 8.9m earthquake in Japan and, closer to home, last month's lethal quake in Christchurch has many asking what science is actually doing to find a way of forewarning of major earthquakes. Read More
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that jolted northeast Japan was caused by a tectonic upheaval that created offshore faults stretching for hundreds of kilometers from Iwate Prefecture to Ibaraki, seismologists said Saturday. Satoko Oki of the University of Tokyo's...
Friday, March 11th, 2011
A recent study by Geoscience Australia scientists has integrated and modelled geoscientific datasets to generate a weathering intensity index for the Australian continent. Weathering intensity is a fundamental characteristic of the regolith, the often discontinuous and highly...
