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  Earthquake  STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR Magnitude 6.5   Magnitude 6.5 - STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR2004 February 24 02:27:46 UTCPreliminary Earthquake ReportU.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information CenterWorld Data Center for Seismology, Denver A strong earthquake occurred at 02:27:46 (UTC) on Tuesday, February 24, 2004. The magnitude 6.5 event has been located in STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR. The hypocentral depth was poorly constrained. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.) Magnitude 6.5 Date-Time Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 02:27:46 (UTC)= Coordinated Universal Time Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 2:27:46 AM = local time at epicenter Location 35.235°N, 3.963°W Depth 2 km (~1...

    Magnitude 7.1 - IRIAN JAYA, INDONESIA2004 February 7 02:42:35 UTCPreliminary Earthquake ReportU.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information CenterWorld Data Center for Seismology, Denver A major earthquake occurred at 02:42:35 (UTC) on Saturday, February 7, 2004. The magnitude 7.1 event has been located in IRIAN JAYA, INDONESIA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.) Magnitude 7.1 Date-Time Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 02:42:35 (UTC)= Coordinated Universal Time Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 11:42:35 AM = local time at epicenter Location 3.995°S, 135.052°E Depth 10 km (6 miles) set by location program Region IRIAN JAYA, INDONESIA Distances 140 km...

        Russians launch resupply ship to space stationBY SPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: January 29, 2004 A load of vital supplies and parts for the International Space Station was successfully dispatched from Earth today, blasting off aboard an unmanned Russian Soyuz rocket. The Progress cargo freighter reached orbit about 9 minutes after its 6:58 a.m. (1158 GMT) launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Soyuz rocket lifts off today carrying the Progress freighter. Credit: Energia  Known in the station's assembly sequence as Progress 13P, the Russian-made craft is also called Progress M1-11 and No. 260. Mission Control reported the ship...

 Recovering Spirit sends New Picture   NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took and returned this image on January 28, 2004, the first picture from Spirit since problems with communications began a week earlier. The image from the rover's front hazard identification camera shows the robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack. As it had been instructed a week earlier, the Moessbauer spectrometer, an instrument for identifying the minerals in rocks and soils, is still placed against the rock. Engineers are working to restore Spirit to working order so that the rover can resume the scientific exploration of its landing...

        Amber Alert Issued for Child Taken by FatherJan. 27, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah officials have issued an Amber Alert for a 5-year-old Harrisville girl allegedly taken by her noncustodial father.   Authorities said 41-year-old Steven Miller of Killeen, Texas, arrived at the home for child visitation. They said that while the 16-year-old son was changing clothes, Miller left with the girl, Stephanie Juliet Miller. Officers said the girl has asthma and needs daily medicines but has none with her. The Amber Alert said Miller could be en route to Texas, but he...

  Spirit: All 1,543 Raw Images - 43 new images since 01/18/2004 10:23:34 PST Sol 15 raw images have arrived!Spirit began performing activities requested by the science team during Sol 16. Those images and other data are currently being sent back to Earth for posting on Sol 17. Any data not transmitted on Sol 17 will be stored onboard the rover and sent on subsequent days during the next possible communications opportunities. (Black spaces typically mean partial data has arrived, but Spirit will fill in the rest of the data as soon as possible). Stay tuned! Engineering CamerasFront Hazcam:Sol 001...

 Send Your Name to a Comet What is the Send Your Name to a Comet campaign?Glad you asked! The Deep Impact mission will dig deep beneath the surface of a comet to get a first-ever look at the frozen collection of ice and dust left over from the formation of the solar system. Why are we doing it? We learn about comets by studying the ice and dust that flows naturally from a comet as it is warmed by the Sun. But we will learn additional information by getting down inside where the more pristine material is hidden. Scientists expect...

Sunday, January 11, 2004Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal BINION'S HORSESHOE: Casino to remain closedFate of more than 1,000 employees unclear after Behnen agrees to keep landmark shutBy JEFF SIMPSON GAMING WIRE Photo by Jeff Scheid. Binion's Horseshoe security officer Del Ebreo consoles a fellow employee of the 52-year-old property on Saturday after the hotel was closed. U.S. marshals armed with court orders authorizing seizure of $2 million forced the casino's closure on Friday.Photo by Jeff Scheid. Nevada Gaming Commission members, from left, Art Marshall, Radha Chanderraj and Augie Gurrola leave the Sawyer Building Saturday afternoon after the five-member panel voted...

          Agents Shut Down Gambling at Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas Federal agents have shut down gambling at one of the old-line casinos in Las Vegas.U.S. marshals and IRS agents have halted gambling at Binion's Horseshoe hotel-casino on grounds it hasn't paid union benefits since June. An official tells a Las Vegas television station (KLAS) they're enforcing a court order to seize almost two million dollars from casino cages. Last night, the casino's roulette wheels were stopped, blackjack games were halted, slot machines were silenced and gamblers were told to cash in their chips. Agents then...

    A major earthquake occurred at 16:23:19 (UTC) on Saturday, January 3, 2004. The magnitude 7.1 event has been located SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS.   Magnitude 7.1 - SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS2004 January 3 16:23:19 UTCPreliminary Earthquake ReportU.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information CenterWorld Data Center for Seismology, Denver A major earthquake occurred at 16:23:19 (UTC) on Saturday, January 3, 2004. The magnitude 7.1 event has been located SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.) Magnitude 7.1 Date-Time Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 16:23:19 (UTC)= Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, January 4,...

$210 Million Powerball Jackpot up for Grabs on New Year's EveSunday December 28, 12:56 am ET POWERBALL, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Lottery players across the nation will have more than 200 million reasons to celebrate New Year's Eve this year. That's because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $210 million. That's currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world. The $210 million jackpot would rank as the 5th largest Powerball jackpot ever, and would rank as the 7th largest lottery jackpot all-time. The cash option for the Wednesday, December...

        Exclusive: Photos of SpaceShipOne's Landing MishapBy Leonard DavidSenior Space Writerposted: 05:20 pm ET18 December 2003 Photos: Courtesy Alan Radecki, used with permissionAfter cracking through the sound barrier on Dec. 17, the privately funded SpaceShipOne's return glide to a Mojave, California landing strip ended in tense moments.

    Mars Express Positioned for Beagle 2 DeploymentBy Peter de SeldingSpace News Staff Writerposted: 10:20 am ET16 December 2003  PARIS-- Ground controllers of Europe's Mars Express satellite on Dec. 16 successfully completed a precision-pointing maneuver to prepare the satellite for a planned Dec. 19 ejection of its small Beagle-2 lander, the mission's flight director said.Michael McKay, flight operations director at the European Space Agency's Esoc space operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, said Mars Express was rotated and its engines briefly fired to increase the satellite's speed as it approaches Mars as part of the maneuver.    Images A breakdown of...

  Mars Express Dodges Solar BulletBy Tariq MalikStaff Writerposted: 03:10 pm ET11 November 2003 Europe's Mars Express spacecraft has overcome the effects of last week's solar flares, which temporarily knocked out navigation equipment aboard the orbiter while leaving the mission's Beagle 2 lander unscathed. Researchers with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express mission said their spacecraft is in good health after solar storms blinded the orbiter's two star trackers for up to 15 hours. Mission controllers said both instruments, which trackers are crucial to keeping Mars Express oriented properly, are now working properly and there appears to be...

 Leonid Meteors Return! Three Separate Showers Due in November  Skywatchers around the world will anxiously look up during the much of mid-November to see what this year’s version of the Leonid meteor shower will bring. In recent years the Leonids have produced some truly spectacular displays whose accompanying hype is still fresh in the minds of many. Expert predictions suggest that at peak times this year, a meteor could streak across the sky every minute or two.That means no meteor storms -- defined as more than 1,000 shooting stars per hour -- as in past years. A better bet, the...

  Magnitude 7.5 - SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA2003 September 27 11:33:25 UTCPreliminary Earthquake ReportU.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information CenterWorld Data Center for Seismology, Denver A major earthquake occurred at 11:33:25 (UTC) on Saturday, September 27, 2003. The magnitude 7.5 event has been located in SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.) Magnitude 7.5 Date-Time Saturday, September 27, 2003 at 11:33:25 (UTC)= Coordinated Universal Time Saturday, September 27, 2003 at 7:33:25 PM = local time at epicenter Location 50.064°N, 87.731°E Depth 18 km (11 miles) set by location program Region SOUTHWESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA Distances 245 km (155...

FR does it again:Here are selected articles from a google search on the quake in Japan.I converted all the times to EDT of the articles I found.It would appear that FR once again scooped AP, UP, VOA, CNN by at least 40 mins. This is the FR post, note the time:8.0 Earthquake in JapanEDIS | 9/25/03 | EDISPosted on 09/25/2003 4:17 PM edt  by BlownChevelle   Major Quake Hits Japan North Island of HokkaidoThu September 25, 2003 04:57 PM ET UP     Magnitude 8 Earthquake Strikes Northern JapanVOA News25 Sep 2003,4:59 edt     Strong Earthquake Rattles Northern Japan Thursday...

  Astronomer Predicts Major Earthquake for Japan, Other Experts Express Doubts TOKYO (AP) _ A Japanese researcher is causing a stir in Tokyo with a prediction based on his study of radio waves that a major destructive earthquake is highly likely to hit the city this week. Yoshio Kushida, a well-known self-taught astronomer who runs his own observatory just outside Tokyo, published on its Internet site his prediction that a quake with a magnitude of 7 or greater was likely to strike the metropolitan area on Tuesday or Wednesday. The prediction was soon picked up by a popular weekly magazine...

  E bay crash kills 4.     COMPLETE ORIGINAL front news section of a newspaper, the SF News (CA) dated Aug 6, 1952. Banner headline appears to indicate that EBAY has crashed and killed four of it's members. Actuall this refers to an Eastern San Francisco Bay area  car crash but it is a nice momento for a rabid EBAY employee or rabid user to frame.    

<p>WESTMINSTER – For now, the towering monument remains shrouded in tarp at Sid Goldstein Freedom Park. On Sunday, when the Vietnam War Memorial is officially unveiled, it will do more than honor the lives of the 58,000 American soldiers who died in the war. For the first time, a memorial will also honor the 300,000 South Vietnamese soldiers who sacrificed their lives to fight alongside the Americans.</p>