<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>&quot;Swarm&quot; of Earthquakes off Oregon Coast Baffle Scientists : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/geology/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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The secret of their success lies in nothing more than shaking the surface the droplets were lying on - in this case a plastic plate.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>265</score><crdate>10/6/2007 12:02:47 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-06T12:02:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>66314</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/66314/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Spot this rare Oregon plant and you could earn a reward]]></title><description><![CDATA[SALEM, Ore. -- Scientists are offering a $100 reward to anybody who can lead them to a plant that may be extinct in Oregon, at least in its native form: the golden paintbrush.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>143</score><crdate>6/23/2008 4:42:37 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-23T16:42:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>52103</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52103/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Storms Bring History to Oregon Coast]]></title><description><![CDATA[PORTLAND, Oregon (AP)  -- The storms that have lashed Oregon's scenic coast this winter have dredged up an unusual array of secrets: old shipwrecks, historic cannons, ghost forests -- even strangely shaped iron deposits.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>231</score><crdate>2/26/2008 10:11:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-26T10:11:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>74741</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74741/1/</url><title><![CDATA[OSU scientists discover oldest known gecko fossil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the discovery of the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved in life-like form after 100 million years of being entombed in amber.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>345</score><crdate>9/3/2008 10:08:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-03T22:08:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51776</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51776/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Journey to the center of the Earth -- Scientists explain tectonic plate motions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in <i>Nature</i> today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one sliding below the other into the rocky mantle could potentially improve their ability to assess earthquake risks.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>344</score><crdate>2/23/2008 8:52:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-23T08:52:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58305</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58305/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scientists: 99.7% Chance Big Earthquake Hits Cali. by 2037]]></title><description><![CDATA[California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said Monday in the first statewide temblor forecast. New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike in the next 30 years.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>141</score><crdate>4/15/2008 3:07:19 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-15T03:07:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51641</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51641/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Earthquakes are caused by gays, says MP]]></title><description><![CDATA[AN Israeli politician has blamed a spate of recent earthquakes in the Middle East on gays. Shlomo Benizri of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party said the only way to prevent the earthquakes was for parliament to stop liberalising laws concerning homosexuals.]]></description><comments>18</comments><score>569</score><crdate>2/21/2008 11:37:58 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-21T23:37:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49854</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49854/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Turtle Swims From Indonesia To Oregon]]></title><description><![CDATA[A leatherback turtle has been tracked swimming from the coast of the Papua province in Indonesia to Oregon, researchers said, in what may be the longest trip for marine vertebrae between breeding and feeding sites.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>263</score><crdate>2/8/2008 7:53:15 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-08T07:53:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>31117</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31117/1/</url><title><![CDATA[2006 tectonic plate motion reversal near Acapulco puzzles earthquake scientists]]></title><description><![CDATA[A reversal of tectonic plate motion between Acapulco and Mexico City in the last half of 2006 probably didn't ease seismic strain in the region or the specter of a major earthquake anticipated there in the coming decades.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>62</score><crdate>8/11/2007 12:00:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-11T12:00:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54481</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54481/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Oregon rail line pledges $24M to help Michael Jackson]]></title><description><![CDATA[The parent company of an Oregon railroad operation that shut down a line through the Coast Range has put up $24 million to help pop singer Michael Jackson keep his Neverland Ranch.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>21</score><crdate>3/16/2008 2:02:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-16T14:02:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62846</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62846/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Calif. quake scientists detail impact of 'Big One' ]]></title><description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The &quot;Big One,&quot; as earthquake scientists imagine it in a detailed, first-of-its-kind script, unzips California's mighty San Andreas Fault north of the Mexican border. In less than two minutes, Los Angeles and its sprawling suburbs are shaking like a bowl of jelly.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>11</score><crdate>5/22/2008 9:08:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-22T21:08:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>32606</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32606/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Strange Asteroids Baffle Scientists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two space rocks in our solar system's outer asteroid belt might contain mineral evidence for a new class of asteroids or long eroded mini-worlds. The asteroids, (7472) Kumakiri and (10537) 1991 RY16, were found to contain basalt, a grey-black mineral that forms much of the crust on Earth and the other inner planets.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>165</score><crdate>8/22/2007 12:24:49 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-22T00:24:49+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>