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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/earth_climate/natural_disasters/" target="_self">ScienceDaily: Natural Disaster News</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Natural Disaster News and Research. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, tsunamis and other natural disasters. Research past events, review predictions by scientists and learn how disaster relief can be most effective.</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100205102550.htm" title="A new study identifies earthquakes through July 2007 that have produced 100 of the strongest peak accelerations and 100 of the strongest peak velocities ever recorded...." target="_self">Characteristics of Earthquakes that Have Caused Exceptional Ground Accelerations and Velocities</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209152237.htm" title="Analyzing images captured using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) by Japan\'s ALOS satellite before and just after Haiti\'s earthquake on Jan. 12, scientists are making new discoveries. The images show that the earthquake rupture did not reach the surface--u..." target="_self">Future earthquake risk in Haiti: Startling images of ground motion help scientists understand risk of aftershocks</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209123814.htm" title="In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, geography students are participating in a global effort to enhance the international response and recovery effort by helping to assess damage, using images hosted by Google Earth and the Virtual Disaster Viewer, whi..." target="_self">Geographers help map devastation in Haiti</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201145443.htm" title="Amid all the commentary focused on the historic tragedy in Haiti, a tough but important fact -- disasters are preventable -- has gone virtually unmentioned, according to a nationally recognized expert on disasters...." target="_self">Haiti earthquake a reminder that disasters are preventable, expert says</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100202112204.htm" title="JPL\'s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) captured a composite image of the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the surrounding region on Jan. 27, 2010. This image will be combined with other images of the same area to be acquired..." target="_self">Airborne Radar Captures Image of Post-Quake Haiti</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100127144549.htm" title="In response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, scientists have publicly released spoken and textual data they\'ve compiled on Haitian Creole so that translation tools desperately needed by doctors, nurses and other relief workers on the earthquake-ravag..." target="_self">Data on Haitian Creole released hasten development of translation tools</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121163915.htm" title="Internal tides, waves below the ocean\'s surface that propagate at tidal frequencies, play an important role in ocean mixing but can be difficult to detect and study. Researchers find they can detect these waves with seismic imaging...." target="_self">First study to show that seismic imaging detects ocean\'s internal tides</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100129221201.htm" title="After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA\'s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform after efforts during the pa..." target="_self">NASA Airborne Radar Studies Haiti Earthquake Faults</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100127085542.htm" title="A new study indicates that the victims of the January 12 quake include an extraordinarily high number of children -- more than 110,000, nearly half of the estimated total...." target="_self">Almost half of injured Haitians are likely to be children, pediatric emergency study indicates</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126175819.htm" title="A team funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is returning to Haiti this week to investigate the cause of the Jan. 12, magnitude 7 earthquake there...." target="_self">Scientists return to Haiti to assess possibility of another major quake</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100127085546.htm" title="A recent special edition of the Elsevier journal Ocean Engineering provides an analysis of the impact of Hurricane Katrina and an overview of the lessons learned in the aftermath of the disaster...." target="_self">Forensic analysis of Hurricane Katrina\'s impact: Methods and findings</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125123233.htm" title="A major increase in maximum ocean wave heights off the Pacific Northwest in recent decades has forced scientists to re-evaluate how high a &quot;100-year event&quot; might be, and the new findings raise special concerns for flooding, coastal erosion and s..." target="_self">Maximum height of extreme waves up dramatically in Pacific Northwest</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126111949.htm" title="Destruction in Haiti, the result of a January 12 earthquake, is staggering. The majority of the capital city of Port-au-Prince will have to be rebuilt from scratch...." target="_self">Haiti reconstruction will require local input</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100122222220.htm" title="Scientists are surveying the damage in Haiti with high-tech sensors integrated into a small aircraft. They are using the data to produce information maps for relief and recovery agencies...." target="_self">Scientists capture Haiti disaster with high-tech imaging system</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100122102439.htm" title="On Jan. 2, Mount Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted, spewing lava from its southern flank and raising concerns that the 100,000 people in the town of Sake could be under threat. Fears were also triggered in Goma as rumors circulated t..." target="_self">Congo receives help from space after volcano eruption</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121141104.htm" title="Recent studies of stream channel offsets along the San Andreas Fault reveal new information about fault behavior -- affecting how we understand the potential for damaging earthquakes...." target="_self">San Andreas Fault study unearths new earthquake information</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121083117.htm" title="A senior British academic has warned that earthquake-ravaged Haiti faces a prolonged period of recovery and reconstruction. Experts say the sheer scale of devastation meant the island nation would face years of reconstruction once the more immediate phase..." target="_self">Haiti faces long road to recovery, expert warns</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119121437.htm" title="Researchers have defined the age, location, size and geochemistry of the volcanoes of Gran Canaria during the Holocene, 11,000 years ago, in order to draw up a map of volcanic hazards for the island. The research shows that the area of greatest volcanic a..." target="_self">Volcanic hazard map produced for island of Gran Canaria</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119085812.htm" title="NASA\'s considerable Earth-observing and data analysis and distribution capabilities have been mobilized to provide information to support disaster recovery efforts in Haiti after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake...." target="_self">NASA Satellite, Natural Hazard Networks Supporting Disaster Recovery</a><br />');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100118091810.htm" title="Geoscientists have issued a warning about heightened earthquake risk in Indonesia. The earthquake which rocked Padang, western Sumatra in September last year killing more than 1000 people was not the \'great earthquake\' which earth scientists are waiting..." target="_self">Heightened earthquake risk in Indonesia</a><br />');
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