>In a spin
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>OREGON is a rogue state, say Robert McCaffrey of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and his colleagues.
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>Using the Global Positioning System, the geologists found that western Oregon is rotating clockwise relative to the rest of the US, and is squeezing Washington state (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 27, p 3117). Luckily, it is only moving a few millimetres a year, they say.
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From New Scientist magazine, 07 October 2000.

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