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77
Prehistoric Climate Provides Clues to Future Changes
Host: Pat Jellison
Tagged: ClimateChange  geology  pliocene  data 

More accurate predictions of future climate and improved understanding of today’s warming are possible with new data from the first comprehensive reconstruction of an extreme warm period. Past warm periods provide real data on climate change and are natural laboratories for understanding the global climate system.

USGS scientists Harry Dowsett and Marci Robinson discuss this research and implications.


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Secretary Kempthorne and Mark Myers Share Thoughts on ShakeOut
Host: Brian Campbell
Tagged:   hazards  earthquakes  shakeout 

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and USGS Director Mark Myers reflect on the successes of The Great Southern California ShakeOut—the largest earthquake preparedness drill in U.S. history.


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75
How Science Helps Communities Survive Earthquakes
Host: CoreCast Team
Tagged:   California  earthquakes  hazards  shakeout  video 

Earthquakes can be far more than just geological phenomena—they can greatly alter the way we live.

In this video, "The Great Southern California ShakeOut: An Earthquake Scenario Based On Science," USGS scientists and their partners talk about the ways science is used to help build safer communities in Southern California.

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Gas Hydrates on Alaska's North Slope
Host: Jessica Robertson
Tagged: energy  GasHydrates 

The USGS estimates that there are 85.4 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on the Alaskan North Slope. This is the first-ever resource estimate of technically recoverable natural gas hydrates in the world.

This assessment shows that gas hydrates could add significantly to the U.S. energy mix. The Alaskan North Slope holds one of the nation’s largest deposits of technically recoverable natural gas.

USGS Director Mark Myers and USGS scientist Timothy Collett discuss the assessment and its results.


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73
What Would a Large Earthquake Do to Downtown L.A.?
Host: Clarice Nassif Ransom
Tagged:   California  shakeout  seismic  earthquakes  hazards  video 

USGS scientist Ken Hudnut fills us in on how science created the theoretical magnitude 7.8 earthquake behind the Great Southern California ShakeOut—the largest earthquake preparedness drill in U.S. history, coming Nov. 13—and what such an earthquake would do to downtown Los Angeles.

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72
Hazard Roundup—October 2008
Host: Brian Campbell
Tagged:   roundup  hazards 

A blazing start to the southern California wildfire season! A number of powerful and destructive earthquakes around the world! The largest earthquake drill in US history just around the corner! 


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Magnitude 6.4s in Pakistan
Host: Scott Horvath
Tagged: earthquakes  hazards  geology 

Early this morning, October 29, 2008, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near Quetta, Pakistan. Twelve hours later, a second 6.4 struck in the same area.

Dr. Harley Benz, Scientist-in-Charge at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center, fills us in with the details.


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Earthquakes? Don't Freak Out—ShakeOut!
Host: David Hebert
Tagged: shakeout  earthquakes  hazards  video  modeling  California 

What if you knew that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake would happen in less than three weeks?

In this video interview, USGS earthquake scientist Dr. Lucy Jones explains that millions of Southern Californians will be preparing as if they do know, thanks to the Great Southern California ShakeOut.

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69
Hazard Roundup—September 2008
Host: Brian Campbell
Tagged:   hazards  roundup  earthquakes  hurricanes 

Hurricane Gustav; Hurricane Ike; Real-time storm surge sensors; Gulf coast impacts and satellite imagery; hurricane photography; Great California ShakeOut


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Farming Carbon to Help the Atmosphere and the Land
Host: James Nickles
Tagged: carbon  CO2    California  ClimateChange  farming  subsidence    water 

Long-standing farming practices in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta expose fragile peat soils to wind, rain and cultivation, emit carbon dioxide (CO2) and cause land subsidence.

To capture or contain the carbon, farmers would "grow" wetlands. In doing so, they would begin to rebuild the Delta's unique peat soils, take CO2 out of the atmosphere, ease pressure on the Delta's aging levees, and infuse the region with new economic potential.

We learn more from USGS bio-geochemist Robin Miller about how this could help California, the nation, and the world.


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