Why New Zealand Great Earthquake?

Rifanews. 6.3 Richter scale earthquake in New Zealand have very widespread and destroy areas close to the center point. Why is it so destructive?

A lecturer at the University of Canterbury Earth Sciences Professor John Townend told Radio New Zealand, seismic event on Tuesday (22 / 2) is linked with the previous earthquake on September 4, 2010.

"Aftershocks does not end just like that and one of them can indeed be a big earthquake," he said.

One of the cities most severely affected are Christchurch. The composition of this city is mud, sand and gravel with water table at the bottom. When an earthquake, and the water rose and mixed with sand.

News previously mentioned, the center of the quake is 40 km from Christchurch. But experts predict, that point is 20 km at a depth of five kilometers. Vibration felt up to the Capital City of Wellington and Dunedin.

Residents said that tremors lasted under a minute. The quake also was the biggest since an earthquake measuring 7.1 magnitude on September 4, 2010 and then

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Multiply Will Treat Online Store Owner

Rifanews.Cheer for the owners of online stores that had been using Multiply to open sales outlets. For those who have not, Multiply probably going to be a more attractive option in the near future.

This is because Multiply would spoil its users with the features and services that fit the needs sell online. Multiply also has asserted himself no longer a site for sharing articles, photos, and videos, but indeed a place to sell online.

"We now affirm ourselves as a provider of e-commerce platform. We will continue to provide the features that already exist such as for blogging, but we will focus on developing e-commerce services to users, "said Peter Pezaris, founder and CEO of Multiply in talks with the media in Jakarta.

He said that in the near Multiply will begin to add features that make it easier for sellers to trade online. There is now a place layananmarketplace displaying merchandise. Later, there will be features of online payment transactions. Peter Pezaris still reluctant to reveal what kind of service, but promised to make the store owners more convenient to use Multiply as its online store.

Not only that, users in Indonesia will also be more pampered anymore now that Multiply has opened its representative office in Indonesia. Led by Daniel Tumiwa as Country Manager Indonesia Multiply Multiply will help users take advantage of these services as needed in Indonesia.

"We will announce something that has never been anyone else. Shopping with the social. It will be interesting thing to shop while socializing, "said Daniel Tumiwa. He said, people can promote their products anywhere, but online stores will remain at Multiply.

One of the advantages Multiply to open an online store, according to Daniel, one of which is an appropriate view. Features photo album that lets users view images in high resolution included that also supports the activities of buying and selling online which generally requires proof that the goods sold. In the future, said Daniel, mediadan social features will be added on Multiply communication.

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Tens of Thousands Dead Bees Canada

A museum in Canada conducted an investigation, Friday (11 / 2) local time, about the cause of the sudden death of 20 thousand bees to their collection.

"All of our 20 thousand bees die within 48 hours," said Royal Ontario Museum curator Amanda Fruci. Bees nest was placed in a glass room, to be viewed by visitors.

According Fruci, the museum is still not sure why they were domesticated bee colonies suddenly collapse syndrome. Therefore, the syndrome that usually befall the bees that leave the nest and never returned.

"In this case, they die in the nest itself," said Fruci which states under normal circumstances, bee colonies are losing 5% of the population. If exposed to collapse or colony collapse syndrome disorder (CDD), can be up to 90% dead.

The mystery of mass death bee populations are also reported in the colonies in Europe, Japan and some other parts of the earth, in recent years. A number of agricultural crops are threatened, especially those that depend on bees for pollination.

Royal Ontario Museum Party rule out the possibility that the cause of death was the fault treatment or starvation on the bees. However, some possible causes are low ventilation, or nest parasites are less warm.

Mass death of bees are often said to be a doomsday ecology. This is due to the many plants that depend on this honey-producing animals for pollination. Even so, the case this time happened to the bees museum collections.

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Valentine, NASA Aircraft Meet Comet

Los Angeles - After a long trip, NASA will finally meet the perfect mate, a comet half the size of Mahattan.

The meeting between the Stardust and comet Tempel 1 will occur on Monday (14 / 2) of this. The meeting will take place 338 million miles from Earth. Stardust who drove with a speed of 38.6 thousand km / h it will fly a distance of 200 km from the potato-shaped comet to take pictures.

If successful, this event will be the first event by scientists before and after pictures Tempel 1 was taken. This will help scientists examine any changes in the surface of the comet diterjadi.

In 2005, Tempel 1 is not pleasant to receive requests from other NASA satellites called the Deep Impact copper who fired a bullet into a comet on July 4. It raises the cosmic fireworks and craters on the surface of the comet.

High-speed collision caused a lot of dust and debris. Deep Impact failed to see any man-made hole in a comet, because images obtained are too flashy. Scientists hope to get a second chance with Stardust.

"I'm not going to sleep on Valentine's Day and send lots of love on the comet," said Pete Schultz Brown University researcher. [vin]

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