Amplifying the anguished apologies of the Geodesy Council throughout the land would be a beginning.

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Co-sponsors of the workshop include the US National Science Foundation, UNAVCO, University of Colorado, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and Tribhuvan University.

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Professor TIMOTHY DIXON (Director, Geodesy Lab, University of Miami): What we found was that some of the levees that failed in Katrina had extremely high rates of subsidence.

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This leaves the Geodesy Council in an awkward position.

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Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport -- InSight, for short -- was just confirmed as a new NASA mission, with the space agency set to launch in March of 2016.

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The Geodesy Council's decision is expected to meet resistance from the other three government agencies with an interest in earthquake prediction and its associated budget the National Land Agency, the Meteorological Agency and the Ministry of Construction.

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Dr Bilham and Vinod Gaur, from the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bangalore, writing late last year in Current Science, said that until recently Indian seismological research has neglected a technique known as geodesy, which measures the strains accumulating in, and distorting the surfaces of, plates.

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