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9 matches found for "earthquake-prone areas"

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New monitoring stations detect 'silent earthquakes' in Costa Rica

These findings are helping scientists understand the full spectrum of motions occurring on the fault and may yield new insights into the events that lead to major earthquakes.A slow slip event...

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What We Don't Know About Liquefaction Could Hurt Us

“This is what would happen during a major earthquake along the Mississippi River,” says Luna, an associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Sci...

Earth Sciences |

On shaky ground: UH Prof finds geological faults threaten Houston

After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a University of Houston geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region’s builders and city planners. This...

Earth Sciences |

San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth reveals new insights into the ’earthquake machine’

The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD)-the first underground observatory to provide physical samples and real-time seismological data from deep inside an active fault zone-i...

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First few seconds of earthquake rupture provides data for distant shake warnings

System can provide tens of seconds of warning about impending ground motion A University of California, Berkeley, seismologist has discovered a way to provide seconds to ten...

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No guessing game: Texas A&M team trying to predict earthquakes

People in earthquake-prone California often talk about the "Big One," a devastating quake that many experts say will surely strike the region sometime in the future. A rese...

Earth Sciences |

Hydrogeochemical changes before and after a major earthquake

Scientists at Stockholm University in Sweden may have developed a new method for predicting earthquakes with the help of geochemistry. The method involves metering the content of certain m...

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’Smart Bridge’ Technology Debuts in New Mexico

The new Interstate 10 bridge over University Avenue in Las Cruces may look like any other highway bridge, but it isn’t. Embedded deep within the bridge’s concrete beams are fib...

Information Technology |

New study casts doubt on validity of standard earthquake-prediction model

A new study by Stanford University geophysicists is raising serious questions about a fundamental technique used to make long-range earthquake predictions. Writing in the journal Natu...

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