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Offline sam

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Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
« 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
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Re: Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2010, 15:34 »
You can get pills for that.

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Re: Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2010, 16:11 »
I wonder what the devastation would have been, had it gone off?
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Re: Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2010, 19:08 »
Probably Brighton.   :devil:

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Re: Failed eruption shook Saudi Arabia
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2010, 19:14 »
:hee-hee:
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