<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 22px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><header class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-left: 2.125rem; margin-right: 2.125rem; margin-top: 0px; "><h1 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1.125rem; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 700; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Noto Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 31px; "><a
href="http://www.redding.com/news/wire-news/gps-devices-find-huge-water-loss-in-western-us" class="" style="">http://www.redding.com/news/wire-news/gps-devices-find-huge-water-loss-in-western-us</a></h1><h1 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1.125rem; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 700; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Noto Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 31px; ">GPS devices find huge water loss in western U.S.</h1><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height:
16px; "><address class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(99, 100, 102); ">The Associated Press</address><div class="" datetime="2014-08-21T23:42:57-0700" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(99, 100, 102); font-size: 12px; ">11:42 PM, Aug 21, 2014</div><div class="" datetime="2014-08-21T23:43:51-0700" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top:
0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(99, 100, 102); font-size: 12px; ">11:43 PM, Aug 21, 2014</div></div></header><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; clear: both; "><div class="" data-autoplay="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 2.125rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 2.125rem; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; position: relative; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 6400000px; "><figure class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(219, 217, 217); width: 640px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; position: relative; cursor: pointer; "></div></figure></div></div></div></div></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px;
font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26); line-height: 28px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; "><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; " class="">SAN DIEGO (AP) — About 63 trillion gallons of water have been lost to drought in the western United States, enough to blanket the region with 4 inches of water, according to a study published Thursday.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top:
0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " class=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; " class=""><span id="_oneup" style="box-sizing: border-box; " class="">Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, arrived at the conclusion by measuring the level of the earth's crust with a network of GPS</span>stations that is normally used to predict earthquakes.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; " class=""><span id="_oneup" style="box-sizing: border-box; " class="">When water is lost because of a lack of rain and snow, the earth's crust rises. The sensors show that the earth's crust has risen an average of 4 millimeters in the western United States since last year and as much as 15 millimeters in the California mountains.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; " class=""><span id="_oneup" style="box-sizing: border-box; " class="">The earth's crust typically sags in the winter and spring, weighed down by water, and it rises during the dry season in summer and fall, said co-author Adrian Borsa. The authors removed those seasonal factors when analyzing about a decade of data from GPS</span> stations within the National Science Foundation's Plate Boundary Observatory.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px;
font-family: inherit; " class=""><span id="_oneup" style="box-sizing: border-box; " class="">Last year, an area stretching west of the Rocky Mountains witnessed a "massive uplift," Borsa said. The rise was most striking in the Sierra Nevada mountains and California coastal regions, but it was spread over the entire region, unlike previous years when some pockets have gone up and others went down.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; " class=""><span id="_oneup" style="box-sizing: border-box; " class="">"It's just amazing to us that this covers the entire western United
States," Borsa said.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; " class=""><span id="_oneup" style="box-sizing: border-box; " class="">The loss of water since last year is equivalent to the annual loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to the study published in the journal Science.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; " class=""><span id="_oneup" style="box-sizing: border-box; " class="">The findings do not appear to raise any serious concerns about earthquake hazards, said Borsa, who hopes authorities use the measurements as a tool to measure the impact of drought. The findings cannot be compared to the severity of earlier droughts because the measurements were not used then.</span></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; "
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