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The avalanche near Salt Lake City, the United States, last April was North America's largest such disaster in modern history. The avalanche carried enough rock, dirt and debris to bury New York's Central Park under 66 feet of rubble.
According to scientists from the University of Utah, the rockslide sent about 170 million tons of debris into a nearly mile-deep pit where it cracked bedrock and triggered unprecedented earthquakes.
Jeff Moore, assistant professor of geology and geophysics says they don't know of any case until now where landslides have been shown to trigger earthquakes.
There were no injuries or deaths as the slide temporarily shut down a copper mine, burying 14 giant haul trucks and leading to a series of layoffs and buyouts at the copper corporation.
The debris slides fell as fast as 100 miles per hour. They crashed to earth with such force that they registered as magnitude-5 earthquakes. The skudes then triggered 16 smaller quakes where the bedrock cracked.
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington unleashed a landslide 57 times larger than this one near Salt Lake City.
Another slide about 8,000 years ago at the mouth of Zion Canyon in southern Utah was five times as large.
Also in the United States, the six space station astronauts have finally got their Christmas presents with the arrival of a privately launched supply ship that took an extra month to soar.
The spacemen opened the capsule a day early and started removing items, as soon as the Orbital Sciences Corporation vessel was moored safely at the International Space Station last week.
Packed inside were 3,000 pounds of groceries, equipment and experiments, as well as eagerly awaited Christmas gifts from their families back home and some fresh fruit courtesy of NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Among the first things out: ants that are part of an educational project.
NASA is relying on private industry to keep the orbiting lab well stocked in this post-shuttle era. In three or four more years, the private industry will possibly supply rides for U.S. astronauts as well.
This was Orbital Sciences' second shipment.
The Virginia company was supposed to make the latest delivery last month, well before Christmas, but had to wait for reasons beyond its control. A space station breakdown in mid-December took priority, and NASA bumped the flight to January in order to repair the disabled cooling system at the orbiting outpost.
Then frigid weather at the launch site at Wallops Island, Vaginia, forced a delay. Then a strong solar storm interfered. Everything finally came together for a smooth liftoff on January 9th.
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去年四月美国盐湖城附近发生的雪崩是北美现代史上最严重的灾难。雪崩夹杂着岩石、泥土和碎片将纽约中央公园掩埋在66英尺的废墟之下。
据犹他大学的科学家表示，滑坡导致1.7亿吨碎片掉进近1英里深的坑中，造成基岩断裂并引发了前所未有的地震。
地质学和地质物理学助理教授杰夫·摩尔表示，他们直到现在才知道滑坡引发了地震。
滑坡导致一座铜矿暂时关闭，虽然没有造成人员伤亡，但是掩埋了14辆巨型卡车，并导致该铜矿公司裁员及被收购。
滑坡的速度达到每小时100英里。坠落到地上的力量相当于五级地震。而且在基岩断裂的地带引发了16起小型地震。
华盛顿圣海伦火山1980年爆发时曾引发滑坡，当时的破坏力比盐湖城附近的灾难强57倍。
犹他州南部锡安山谷8000年前也曾发生过滑坡事故，破坏程度是这起事故的5倍。
继续关注美国新闻，6名美国空间站宇航员终于收到了圣诞节礼物，一艘私营公司的补给船在发射时间推迟了一个月后终于抵达空间站。
上周美国轨道科学公司的飞船安全地停靠在国际太空站，宇航员已经提前一天打开太空舱并开始清理物品。
飞船载有3000磅食品、实验设备以及宇航员们热切期盼的家人送的圣诞礼物和美国航空航天局送的新鲜水果。
运送的物品中包括将用于教育计划的蚂蚁。
在后航天飞机时代，美国航空航天局依赖私营企业保持轨道实验室的储备。未来三到四年，私营企业可能会为承担运送美国宇航员的任务。
这是轨道科学公司的第二次货运任务。
这家总部位于弗吉尼亚州的公司原定于上个月圣诞节之前进行补给任务，但由于无法控制的原因被迫推迟。12月中旬太空站出现故障，因为这一问题更紧要，所以美国航空航天局将这一任务推迟到一月，以先修复空间站轨道前哨失耿的冷却系统。
弗吉尼亚州瓦勒普斯岛发射场的寒冷天气迫使发射再次推迟。再加上之后的太阳风暴，最后飞船于1月9日才得以顺利发射。
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