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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on September 27, 2010, 15:01

Title: Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
Post by: sam on September 27, 2010, 15:01

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A 'failed' volcanic eruption caused a swarm of more than 30,000 earthquakes in a remote region of Saudi Arabia last year, a team of US and Saudi scientists has found. The quakes show that plate boundaries can make their influence felt at far greater distances than researchers had supposed.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100926/full/news.2010.494.html

Title: Re: Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
Post by: Rodders on September 27, 2010, 15:34

You can get pills for that.

Title: Re: Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
Post by: Simon on September 27, 2010, 16:11

I wonder what the devastation would have been, had it gone off?

Title: Re: Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
Post by: Clive on September 27, 2010, 19:08

Probably Brighton.   :devil:

Title: Re: Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
Post by: Simon on September 27, 2010, 19:14

:hee-hee: