http://goldbamboo.com/ Earthquakes News from GoldBamboo.com en-us © 2005, Gold Bamboo LLC, All Rights Reserved http://goldbamboo.com/news-a215941.html From winter storms, to earthquakes, to terrorism -- when a disaster strikes a community, who fares better, a rural community or an urban one? A new study at the University of Illinois attempts to understand the differences in how rural and urban citizens across the US respond to disaster. [click link for full article] Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a198559.html Researchers are applying the same basic technique seismologists use to measure earthquakes for a new medical technology that promises to prevent stress fractures by detecting the formation of tiny cracks in bones.The crack formation generates waves similar to those created by earthquakes. [click link for full article] Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a192306.html For the first time, scientists have been able to use satellite data to detect the changes in the earth's surface caused by a massive earthquake.The discovery, reported in the latest issue of the journal Science, signifies a new use for the data from NASA's two GRACE satellites and offers a possible new approach to understanding how earthquakes work. [click link for full article] Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a144334.html Over a 20-year period, from 1979 to 1999, more people in the USA died from extreme heat than from hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined, according to the CDC... click link for more info. Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:00 EST http://goldbamboo.com/news-a129813.html Northern metropolitan Los Angeles is being squeezed at a rate of five millimeters a year, straining an area between two earthquake faults that serve as geologic bookends north and south of the affected region. Scientists expect that the strain will ultimately be released in earthquakes much like the 1994 Northridge temblor. The study also suggests which faults might be most likely to rupture. Thu, 19 May 2005 03:00 EST