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Shake It All Bout
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It is by The Economist print.
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It was published by the Economist Print.
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It falls under Geology.
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Three facts are..If you dropped your laptop computer, a chip built into it will sense the acceleration and protect the special moving parts of its hard disk before it hits the ground and breaks =(. The chip used inside the laptops are now be used to try and detect Earthquakes. The speedometers are now being used inside of cell phones which will hopefully do the same for them as they did for the laptops.
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Something interesting about this was that the laptop speedometer inside these laptops are able to be used to messure earthquakes. Another interesting fact is that the speedometer is used in cars to detect when airbags need to open.
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why didnt they think of doing this earlier?

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the title of the articel is "Storm System Drenches North Carolina Coast"...
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The article is by Sam Scott & Dave Reynolds.
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It was published by Star News Online
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It goes under Oceanography and Meterology. That is the science it falls under.
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Thursday was a good day to stay indoors because gusting winds and rain made it the gloomiest day in a long time with winds and rains expected to continue into Friday. There was alot of flooding in areas. There is still alot of rain expecting to fall.
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That people found the storm was very bad even though over here it wasnt too bad. People who have lived there for a long time found it bad also because of all the flooding.

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the KILAUEA VOLCANO is found in Hawaii. Its elevation is 4091 ft (1247 m). the volcano is at an orange alert level.Ancient Hawaiians believed you could see Pele, a beautiful fire goddess in the lava of the volcano when the volcano erupted. They believed she made the volcano erupt when she was very mad! Be sure to watch the volcano because of the orange level advisory

« iran gets HIT HARD»

1. the two articles i read were Sea Floods Texas Island; Get Out or Certain Death and Strong Earthquake in Southern Iran Kills 4
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the first article is about how an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 kills 4 and wounds 34. the epicenter of the earthquake lasted about 30 seconds.
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the article is about how the low lying parts of texas are told to evacuate there homes because of hurrican ike. but the people in the higher parts of texas are told to just stay indoors. the low lying parts are thought to flood because of the storm. but only 80% of the 90% of people have complied.
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the earthquake in iran was more disasterous though.
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the flooding of texas wasnt that bad because the people were told ahead of time what was going to happpen while the people in iran were unnotified before the earthquake hit. but both were bad because both lost many homes in the aftermath of the disasters.

recent EARTHquakes

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Most earthquakes occur along the edge of the oceanic and continental plates.
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i think it happens because plates under the earth are always moving and after a good amount of moving they slip.
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Most earthquakes occur along the edge of the oceanic and continental plates.
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the earthquake closet to North Carolina was in Clarksville, TN
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the earthquake in SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico was a 3.2.

←† a real life example of a mass movement †→

a rockfall is a rock or rockfragments that fall freely through the air.its common on slopes that are steep for loose material to remain on the surface.alot of this is caused by mechanical weathering of rocks caused by freeze-thaw cycles of by plant roots. these sometime cause other mass movements.