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Earthquakes actually aftershocks of 19th century quakes
When small earthquakes shake the central U.S., citizens often fear the rumbles are signs a big earthquake is coming. Fortunately, new research instead shows that most of these earthquakes are aftersho...
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Read moreTsunami Evacuation Buildings: Another Way to Save Lives in the Pacific Northwest
The region’s geology makes an earthquake-triggered tsunami inevitable and imminent in geologic time, Wang says, yet coastal towns and cities in the northwest are woefully unprepared for such a large-s...
Earth Sciences | Read moreSatellite data look behind the scenes of deadly earthquake
"One of the very fundamental issues for understanding an earthquake is to know how the rupture is distributed on the fault plane, which is directly related to the amount of ground shaking and the...
Information Technology | Read moreScientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone
An international group of scientists aboard the Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Progra...
Earth Sciences | Read moreNew way to monitor faults may help predict earthquakes
Paul Silver* and Taka'aki Taira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, with Fenglin Niu of Rice University and Robert Nadeau of the University of California, Berk...
Earth Sciences | Read moreSan Andreas affected by 2004 Sumatran quake
U.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion of California's famed San Andreas Fa...
Earth Sciences | Read moreFirst complete image created of Himalayan fault, subduction zone
Their findings, published this week in the journal Science, help explain the formation of the world's largest mountain range, which is still growing.The researchers discovered that as the...
Earth Sciences | Read moreScientists return from first ever riser drilling operations in seismogenic zone
The CHIKYU is operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) in partnership with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The expedition began with drilling operations at...
Earth Sciences | Read moreGlobal Warming Bringing More Extreme Heat Waves
“Global warming is bringing more frequent and severe heat waves and the result will be serious for vulnerable populations,” said Dr. Amanda Staudt, climate scientist, National Wildlife Federation. ...
Earth Sciences | Read moreOcean-drilling expedition cites new evidence related to origin and evolution of seismogenic faults
New research about what triggers earthquakes, authored by Michael Strasser of Bremen University, Germany, with colleagues from the USA, Japan, China, France, and Germany, will appear in the Aug. 16 20...
Earth Sciences | Read moreListening to rocks helps researchers better understand earthquakes
Earth, as it turns out, has other secrets to divulge. From the pounding of the surf and the rumbling of thunder, to the gentle rustling of leaves, Earth is not a quiet planet. The key is knowing how t...
Earth Sciences | Read moreNew Cloaking Method: No Star Trek or Harry Potter Story
"We have shown that it is numerically possible to cloak objects of any shape that lie outside the cloaking devices, not just from single-frequency waves, but from actual pulses generated by a mul...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreShaking the Earth: Just add water
New Zealand is the site of one of the world's youngest subduction zones, where the Pacific Plate of Earth's crust dives beneath the Australian Plate. Now, a University of Utah study shows ho...
Earth Sciences | Read moreResearchers on Chikyu Report Successful Riser-Drilling
Kumano Basin off Kii Peninsula, approximately 58 km southeast of Japan— Despite harsh atmospheric and ocean conditions, and complex geological characteristics of its drill site, the deep-sea drilling ...
Earth Sciences | Read morePacific tsunami threat greater than expected
The new research suggests that future tsunamis could reach a scale far beyond that suffered in the tsunami generated by the great 1964 Alaskan earthquake. Official figures put the number of deaths cau...
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