War of the Pacific
Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano off the Pacific Northwest coast, could erupt soon for the first time in a decade. Scientists at the University of Washington have detected a sharp increase in small undersea earthquakes and seafloor inflation - signs of magma buildup within the volcano. Despi...
The state has the 3rd longest coastline of all states (after Alaska andFlorida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence. That’s due to the state’s location along the PacificRing of Fire. About 37,000 earthquakes are recorded annually. California State Flag Nearly 45 percent of the state’s t...
Elvis Presley made his first public appearance as a singer on this day. It did not go well: he came fifth in a local talent show. But he was only ten
Archipelago between Chile and Argentina, the Beagle Channel connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It is one of the most important waterways and one of three navigable routes that link the two oceans. Other navigable routes are the Drake Passage to the south and the Straits of Magellan to ...
Any nations on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan , NZ ETC. Any nations on constructive margins: Iceland Any nations with an isolated mantle plume: Hawaii, Yellowstone. (BTW: mantle plumes may well be antipodal fossil remnants of meteor strikes, but that is a story for another day) Any natio...
Sea arches are a spectacular phenomena created by Mother Nature with a little help from oceans. They are usually composed of a soft rock that eroded over millions of years as waves hit land, carving caves and tunnels in the rock. Some arches are accessib
of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez face each other across the boundary line. East of these cities, the border follows the course of the Río Grande (Río Bravo as it is known to Mexicans) to the Gulf of Mexico; west of these cities, it crosses the Sonoran desert to reach the Pacific Ocean...
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Topaz Solar Farm is a proposed 550 megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic power plant, to be built by First Solar, Inc. (thin film silicon solar module maker) in the Carrizo Plain, northwest of California Valley at a cost of over $1 billion. On August 14, 2008, Pacific Gas and Electric anno...