“Now, we have a study in Nature that discusses the magmatic events that led up to the Minoan eruption at Santorini — a fairly timely topic considering the rumblings there — that has gotten the media’s attention.” Quoted from the Eruptions Blog.
Water in the Rhine River is at a very low level from an extended drought. This exposed two huge bombs that have been in the river since World War II. Experts are disposing of the bombs while thousands of local residents have been evacuated.
Petroglyphs found in over 100 caves of France and Spain depict hundreds of horses. Because the petroglyphs were rendered in color researchers believe that they provide evidence on the color of horses in the stone age.
Researchers in southern Italy have found teeth associated with shell beads and other ornaments that date to between 43,000 and 45,000 years ago. These are older than any other physical remains found anywhere in Europe.
The European Space Agency is launching a constellation of GPS satellites that will provide high resolution navigation abilities that are more accurate than what is available to citizens in the United States. An even higher resolution encrypted signal will be available for companies who want to pay for it.
USGS reports that a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred in eastern Turkey at 1:41 PM local time. CNN reports that several buildings have collapsed in Van Province.
The New York Times has an update article on the manslaughter trial of six seismologists in Italy who are accused of not giving adequate warnings in advance of the L’Aquila earthquake in 2009 that killed over 300 people.
“University of Southampton and British School at Rome archaeologists, leading an international excavation of Portus – the ancient port of Rome, believe they have discovered a large Roman shipyard.” Quoted from the University of Southampton news release.
Although an overwhelming number of worldwide seismologists agree that earthquakes can not be predicted, earthquake scientists in Italy are tried for manslaughter because they did not provide warnings in advance of a 2009 earthquake.
Here is a really interesting video by Ole Salomonsen that shows the Northern Lights through a series of time lapse videos taken near Tromsø, Norway.
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