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Coming up, we'll tell you how to predict an earthquake. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Plus, the turtle and his penguin pals preparing to go home. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
But first, to the scientific discovery that could help predict - | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
for the first time ever - when earthquakes will happen. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Experts have spent years trying to figure out when devastating quakes | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
will occur but and now a team in Sweden they think they might | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Big earthquakes don't tend to happen in the UK but in some parts | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
of the world they can destroy entire cities and leave millions | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
But for years they have been the only natural disaster experts | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
REPORTER: It is bigger than the US state | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
of California and it is powering ever closer to shore. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Weather forecasters can plot paths of tornadoes and hurricanes | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
and predict heavy rains or flooding and even volcanoes are monitored | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
for warning signs that show when they are about to erupt. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
But the same could never be said about earthquakes - until now. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Scientists think they have come up with the new method and it is | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Earthquakes are caused when huge pieces of rock on the Earth's | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
surface called tectonic plates rub together and force waves of energy | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
This causes the tremors and shakes felt during | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
an earthquake, and experts examining groundwater before two separate | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
earthquakes in Iceland found the chemicals in the water changed | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
They think it is all because of stress building in the rocks beneath | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
Firstly, it shows that something happens before an earthquake, | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
and if we are ever going to be able to predict earthquakes we need | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Secondly, that something is something we can measure and detect. | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
This is just one study and some scientists say the new | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
It is possible for changes in fluid flow to arise | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Fluids in volcanically active regions can be affected | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
So just because we observe them doesn't necessarily mean there is | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
But everyone is hoping that more work to successfully predict | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
when earthquakes will happen could help save millions | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
Fighter planes have started dropping bombs on Syria for the first time | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
as President Barack Obama continues his plan to try and beat a radical | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
IS is a militant Muslim group which has taken over large parts | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
of Iraq and Syria in the last couple of months. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
It wants to create a new country with strict Islamic | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
rules and has tried to harm people who don't agree with its aims. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Obama has promised to stop the group and has already bombed | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
But this is the first time the group has been targeted in Syria | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
and some other Middle Eastern countries have backed the US. | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, is expected to call | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
for 16 year-olds to be able to vote in all future elections. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
He'll speak about the issue when the Scottish Parliament meets today, the | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
first time since Scotland voted no to becoming an independent country. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
The voting age was cut to 16 for last Thursday's referendum, for | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Now - penguins, sharks and other sea life are all taking to the motorway | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
this morning as they prepare for a big homecoming later today. | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
Last winter's storms destroyed the Sea Life Centre in Hunstanton, | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
near Norwich, and all the animals who lived there had to be moved. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
But after ten months their original home has been repaired | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
and wildlife experts will spend today transporting as many of them | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
as possible back there - and the BBC's John Maguire is with them. | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
Big it is an amazing view. You probably can see the reflections on | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
the glass but there is a huge replica of a dinosaur above us here. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
This tank will welcome a turtle, the fastest Turtle in the East. It is on | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
the way down from another Sea life Centre on the coast, it was an | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
incredible operation, tidal flooding caused the damage here. We have | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
three or four feet of sea water throughout the building. We lost | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
mains power and we were just encircled by a saltwater lake. Other | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
way around the building we had water coming in through every doorway and | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
up through the floors. It became very apparent that we were facing a | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
major event. ?3 million they have spent to try to reopen the aquarium. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
They have three weeks to go until it reopens but today is a big operation | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
to start bringing some of the animals back into the tanks. | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour. | :04:57. | :05:01. |