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  • Russian scientists revive plants frozen for 30,000 years

    A team of Russian biophysicists have successfully grown ancient plants from tissue material that stayed frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 30,000 years.This is the oldest plant material to have been brought to life so far.The team from the Institute of

  • M 6.0 sea quake 256 km off the coast of Oregon

    USGS reported magnitude 6.0 quake at 3:31 UTC (Feb. 15, 2012) 256 km (159 miles) west of the coast of Oregon. Recorded depth by both USGS and EMSC was 10 km. No tsunami warning was issued, and no damage reported. This earthquake is not unusual as it occurred in a

  • M 6.0 earthquake near the east coast of Honshu, Japan

    USGS reported magnitude 6.0 earthquake with depth of 10 km at 06:21 (UTC, Feb. 14, 2012) near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. Epicenter was 70 km of the coast, 165 km of Tokyo, 136 km of Fukushima nuclear plant. Earthquake-report.com calls it moderately dangerous