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Podcast title USGS CoreFacts
Website URL http://www.usgs.gov/corefacts/...
Description CoreFacts offers quick science Q & A, every week, from the USGS. Questions are about everything from minerals in fireworks to avian flu, and answers are short and sweet. CoreFacts is short on time and big on science.
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1. Special Announcement: CoreFacts Being Discontinued
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A special announcement regarding the USGS CoreFacts podcast series.



2. What can I do to be prepared for a landslide?
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3. What type of sounds do cicadas make?
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4. How is water cleaned?
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5. Can my dog or cat get West Nile Virus (WNV) by eating an infected animal?
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6. Why should people in the Eastern United States be concerned about earthquakes?
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7. What is tuff?
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8. How did Asian swamp eels get here?
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9. How far did the ash from Mount St. Helens travel?
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10. What is a supervolcano?
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11. What can I do to be prepared for a landslide?
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12. Why do salmon die after they spawn?
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13. What is the National Map?
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14. Why is Yellowstone called Yellowstone?
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15. Were dinosaurs social animals?
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16. What is a "lava dome"?
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17. What is the difference between intensity scales and magnitude scales?
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18. How many giant eruptions have occurred in Yellowstone National Park and how large were they?
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19. What are the differences between low pathogenic and highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses and how are influenza viruses grouped?
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20. Does the Earth's magnetic field affect human health?
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