By: USGS

www.earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

24 earthquakes

    3.1 14km NNE of Coalinga, California 2013-11-08 15:31:18 UTC-05:00 14.3 km

    2.5 55km S of Cantwell, Alaska 2013-11-08 07:41:51 UTC-05:00 12.2 km

    4.8 165km WSW of Port Hardy, Canada 2013-11-08 06:45:01 UTC-05:00 9.7 km

    4.7 38km S of Qian'an, China 2013-11-08 06:37:20 UTC-05:00 15.3 km

    2.6 12km NNE of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico 2013-11-08 06:14:24 UTC-05:00 17.0 km

    2.9 39km N of Sutton-Alpine, Alaska 2013-11-08 06:00:28 UTC-05:00 25.0 km

    4.7 113km WSW of Crescent City, California 2013-11-08 05:46:53 UTC-05:00 2.5 km

    4.3 33km NE of Hashtrud, Iran 2013-11-08 05:12:34 UTC-05:00 10.0 km

    4.8 Carlsberg Ridge 2013-11-08 04:51:01 UTC-05:00 10.0 km

Reuters, By: Reuters, 11/04/2013

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Carbon dioxide injected into oil and gas wells may have caused a series of minor earthquakes in Texas long before the adoption of current hydraulic fracking, according to a study published on Monday in a national science journal. The study, which analyzed 93 earthquakes that occurred between March 2009 and December 2010, appears to be the first to link earthquakes of magnitude 3 and above and carbon dioxide injections in the Cogdell oil field near Snyder, Texas.

Tremors in the area that occurred between 1975 and 1982 were previously linked to the injection of water into wells but the same explanation could not be applied to earthquakes that occurred in late 2000s, the paper's two authors said. "The timing of gas injection suggests it may have contributed to triggering the recent seismic activity," the study said. "If so, this represents an instance where gas injection has triggered earthquakes having magnitudes 3 and larger."

By: Marcia Dunn, 11/08/2013

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- This is one strange asteroid. The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a six-tailed asteroid in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Scientists say they've never seen anything like it. Incredibly, the comet-like tails change shape as the asteroid sheds dust. The streams have occurred over several months.

A research team led by the University of California, Los Angeles, believes the asteroid, designated P/2013 P5, is rotating so much that its surface is flying apart. It's believed to be a fragment of a larger asteroid damaged in a collision 200 million years ago. Scientists using the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii spotted the asteroid in August. Hubble picked out all the tails in September. The discovery is described in this week's issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

For more on this story visit http://www.wunderground.com/news/hubble-asteroid-six-tails-20131108

Earthsky.org, 11/7/13, Larry Sessions

If you stay up until mid-evening on November 7 – or get up before sunrise on November 8 – you can catch the dazzling planet Jupiter at a turning point in the year. Jupiter is said to appear stationary in front of the constellation Gemini the Twins, beginning on November 7, as it begins its retrograde motion in front of the stars. In astronomy, the start of retrograde motion of an outer planet like Jupiter always means the planet is soon to be at its best in our sky, in this case in early 2014. It happens when that planet seems to stop and then change its normal eastward direction of motion in front of the background stars.

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