seismic activity
Shakedown in Oklahoma: To cut the number of bigger earthquakes, inject less saltwater
Starting around 2009, saltwater disposal (SWD) volume began increasing dramatically as unconventional oil and gas production increased rapidly throughout…
Earthquake triggers 'slow motion' quakes in New Zealand
Some of the slow slip events occurred as far away as 300 miles from the earthquake's epicenter. The study of new linkages between the two types of seismic…
Slow earthquakes occur continuously in the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone
Seismologists at the University of California, Riverside studying earthquakes in the seismically and volcanically active Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone have…
University of Toronto-led research suggests some major changes to geology textbooks
Super-computer modelling of Earth's crust and upper-mantle suggests that ancient geologic events may have left deep 'scars' that can come to life to play a…
New study finds major earthquake threat from the Riasi fault in the Himalayas
Scientists have known about the Riasi fault in Indian Kashmir, but it wasn't thought to be as much as a threat as other, more active fault systems. However,…
Self-healing landscape: landslides after earthquake
These new findings are presented by a German-Franco-Japanese team of geoscientists in the current issue of the journal Geology, under the lead of the GFZ…