Japan sets new ocean drilling record
September 7th, 2012 - 12:36 pm ICT by IANS
Tokyo, Sep 7 (IANS) Chikyu, a scientific drilling vessel, established a world new record by boring deeper than 2,111 metres below the seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan in the ... Read more...
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Actress Lucy Lawless arrested
February 28th, 2012 - 12:17 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Wellington, New Zealand, Feb 27 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Shell’s plan to drill five exploratory wells in the Arctic received a major boost when the police removed six protesters including actress Lucy Lawless from ... Read more...
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Sea level data spanning 35 million years pulled from 6,000-foot hole
January 27th, 2010 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 27 (ANI): A team of scientists has drilled more than 6,000 feet into the Earth's crust, making it the deepest hole in scientific ocean drilling history, which has retrieved a ... Read more...
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Ocean-drilling expedition cites new evidence related to origin and evolution of quakes
August 18th, 2009 - 4:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 18 (ANI): An ocean-drilling expedition in Japan has come across new evidence related to the origin and evolution of earthquakes.The expedition is being conducted as part of the Nankai Trough ... Read more...
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First riser-drilling operations in earthquake zone off Japan successfully completed
July 31st, 2009 - 1:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 31 (ANI): The deep-sea drilling vessel CHIKYU, for the first time in the history of scientific ocean drilling, successfully conducted riser-drilling operations to drill down to a depth of 1,603.7 ... Read more...
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Core samples from subsea fault system off Japan, might shed light on earthquake generation
February 6th, 2008 - 2:09 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 6 (ANI): An International team of scientists aboard the drilling vessel Chikyu, have obtained core samples from a subea fault system in Nankai Trough, a region off the Pacific coast ... Read more...
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Scientists detect strong variation in tectonic stresses in Japans earthquake generating zone
January 18th, 2008 - 12:08 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Jan 18 (ANI): Scientists have reported the discovery of a strong variation in the tectonic stresses in Nankai Trough - a region of the Pacific Ocean notorious for generating devastating earthquakes ... Read more...
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Scientists detect alarming variation in tectonic plate stresses of tsunami generating zone
December 28th, 2007 - 3:54 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Dec 28 (ANI): Scientists have discovered strong variation in the tectonic plate stresses in Nankai Trough, a region off the Pacific coast of Japan, which is notorious for generating devastating earthquakes ... Read more...
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Driling vessel completes first mission in Japan’s underwater earthquake zone
November 20th, 2007 - 6:21 pm ICT by admin
London, Nov 20 (ANI): Reports indicate that Chikyu, the world's largest research drilling vessel, has successfully completed its first mission of finishing the initial 8 week leg of the its research programme ... Read more...
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