An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter scale occurred near the Nepal-India border in Sikkim today, according to the National Centre for Seismology.
Will McGough, CNN ⢠Updated 5th February 2021
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(CNN) â Five days before Christmas, Cheryl Gansecki, a volcanologist at the University of HawaiÊ»i Hilo, was in bed when a small earthquake shook her awake sometime after 9:30 p.m.
She checked the webcams at the summit of the KÄ«lauea Volcano, and her eyes went wide when she saw it the bright, bold glow coming from the crater.
The lava. It had returned.
She promptly made the 45-minute drive to the crater rim, adjacent to the Visitors Center at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. By the time she arrived at 10:45 p.m., word had spread far and wide.
How the return of lava has brought hope to Hawaiʻi’s recovery
Five days before Christmas, Cheryl Gansecki, a volcanologist at the University of Hawaiʻi Hilo, was in bed when a small earthquake shook her awake sometime after 9:30 p.m.
She checked the webcams at the summit of the Kīlauea Volcano, and her eyes went wide when she saw it the bright, bold glow coming from the crater.
The lava. It had returned.
She promptly made the 45-minute drive to the crater rim, adjacent to the Visitors Center at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. By the time she arrived at 10:45 p.m., word had spread far and wide.
USGS Releases Estimate of Natural Gas in Alaska s Western North Slope
USGS Releases Estimate of Natural Gas in Alaska Western North Slope
No Estimate Provided for Oil Due to There Likely Being No Recoverable Resources in Assessed Formations
Release Date:
February 5, 2021
USGS provides its first estimate of conventional natural gas resources in rock formations west of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The rock formations in this region are believed to contain no recoverable oil deposits, so no assessment was made of those resources in this study.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates 1.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas resources lie undiscovered in the portions of the Alaska North Slope located to the west of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), according to a