Earthquale Hits Central California
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(Sept. 28) -- A strong earthquake struck central California around 10:30 am The magnitude 5.9 quake was centered 9 miles south of Parkfield, California, about 100 miles northwest of Bakersfield.
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HASTINGS, Neb., June 25  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yahoo! Inc.  today announced that Hastings, Nebraska, has won its "Be a Better Planet" Greenest City in America challenge.
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By Shelli Derobertis, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.  Dec.
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A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck in central California, shaking buildings as far away as San Francisco. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
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A strong earthquake and over 200 aftershocks struck central California on Tuesday, rattling a large chunk of the state along the San Andreas Fault, but causing little significant damage.
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(InfoWorld) - The Web hosting company chosen to power the Web sites for this weekend's Live Earth concerts adopts an environmentally friendly business plan: Let the sunshine in. Affordable Internet Services Online (AISO) has been hired to power the Web sites from its 100 percent solar-powered Web hosting facility in Romoland, California, north of San Diego. The company's green philosophy fits with the theme of the concerts to raise awareness of the issue of global climate change. The concerts are to be held around the clock July 7 in Shanghai, Tokyo, London, New York, and other cities. Organizers of the Live Earth event say the concert venues will be carbon neutral with electricity to power musicians' amplifiers and microphones coming from renewable energy sources. AISO has been using the renewable energy of the sun to power its data center since 2001, said Phil Nail,Â CTO for the 10-year-old company. AISO will operate two Live Earth sites, one for the concert and the other to track pledges. Live Earth is not seeking financial donations but asks people to pledge to adopt a carbon-neutral lifestyle. The company installed 14 IBM BladeCenter servers powered by AMD Opteron dual-core processors to host the sites. Each of the servers uses about 142 watts of electricity, which Nail considers more energy efficient than average. Low-end servers, including blades, run at an average of 218 watts, and midrange servers run at an average of 638 watts, according to figures from a 2007 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study. Because these are the first Live Earth concerts, organizers have no idea how much traffic to expect at the Web sites, he said. The concert will be televised, and viewers will be invited to make pledges on the AISO-hosted pledge sites. Later, the names of those who pledged will appear on TV. Other Web hosting companies advertise themselves as "green," Nail said, but they often simply buy carbon offsets rather than actually improve their own energy efficiency. Affordable Internet also has installed solar tubes, shafts that run from the roof of a building to the ceiling in a room, to light the data center's interior. It also irrigates a rooftop garden with recycled water from the data center's cooling system. Affordable Internet, with 15,000 customers, has attracted prospective customers from as far away as the U.K. to host their Web sites because they are seeking out carbon-neutral hosting services.
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An environmental group says earth&#39;s people are using up the planet faster than it can restore itself and the west is the chief culprit.
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By The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 9--After more than a week of blue skies, the Central Coast's weather turned Friday and rain is expected to continue through the weekend.
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By Dnichols@recordnet.Com, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep.
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A 6.0 earthquake struck central California this morning, along with more than 90 aftershocks. The quake was centered along the San Adreas Fault, between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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A strong earthquake struck Central California at 10:15 am today, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake was centered in Parkfield, near Paso Robles.
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A powerful aftershock rattled central California on Thursday, two days after a magnitude-6.0 quake struck one of the state's most seismically active areas. There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries in the latest temblor.
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PARKFIELD, Calif. - A strong earthquake that shook Central California without causing any significant damage or injuries could be a boon to researchers who hope intense scrutiny of the state's earthquake capital may help predict future temblors...
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SACRAMENTO -- This city believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees.
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Google Earth unearths a Navy blunder in California.
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By Don Jergler, Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif.  Sep.