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NASA engineers who investigated the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003 are wondering why their safety recommendations have been overruled shortly before the shuttle Discovery is due to take off in July.

Mike Schneider reports that chief NASA safety officer Bryan O?Connor has accused NASA of postponing what the investigators believe are essential design changes to the shuttle’s external fuel tank until after Discovery’s upcoming flight in July.
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Mysterious shaking and booming noises are becoming common across the US and the world, as global warming heats up. Now there are booms in Seattle. As far as we know, we’re the only ones who have connected this phenomenon to climate change.

Andrew Binion writes in the Peninsula Daily News (from Port Angeles, WA, which is near Seattle) that a series of mystery booms rattled residents? windows recently. Again, the FAA and military all deny that this was caused by an airplane and no seismic activity was recorded.

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A tsunami warning was issued for Fiji and NewZealand after an 7.8 quake struck the area. The quaketook place at a shallow depth in the Tonga region of theFiji Islands and is classified as a “great” earthquake.Reportsto Unknowncountry from Tonga indicate little local effect,and the tsunami warning was cancelled two hours after beinginstituted.The quakestruck at 4:26 AM local time, 8:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time.The epicenter was 1,340 miles north northeast of Auckland,New Zealand.

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The earthquake of 1906 devastated San Franciso on April 18, and on its one-hundredth anniversary, the town has been remembering the devastation it caused. The Indonesian tsunami, caused by an earthquake deep beneath the ocean floor, arrived suddenly in December of 2004. Now it looks like both of them may happen again.

Larry O’Hanlon writes in Discovery News that mysterious rumblings have been detected inside and above the San Andreas fault. Seismologists aren?t sure if these are a warning that a major quake is on the way. The noises “just rumble and stop” then this sequence repeats, according to seismologist Robert Nadeau.
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