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(Phys.org) —Northern Chile's Atacama Desert is an earthquake scientist's dream – the hyper-arid plain keeps a visible record of cracks caused by a million year's worth of earthquakes. http://phys.org/news286522446.html Space & Earth Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:34:14 EST news286522446 (AP)—Luo Shiqiang sat near chunks of concrete, bricks and a ripped orange sofa and told how his grandfather was just returning from feeding chickens when their house collapsed and crushed him to death in this weekend's powerful earthquake in southwestern China. http://phys.org/news285763696.html Space & Earth Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:48:34 EST news285763696 More than a quarter of a million Californians live in coastal areas which could be hit by devastating floods from a major tsunami in the quake-prone US state, a new study says. http://phys.org/news283493985.html Space & Earth Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:30:01 EST news283493985 A mega-quake in 1255 that wrecked the Nepalese capital, wiped out a third of the population of Kathmandu Valley and killed the country's monarch, King Abhaya Malla, was of a kind that may return to the Himalayas, seismologists reported on Sunday. http://phys.org/news274885608.html Space & Earth Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:07:00 EST news274885608 Researchers have discovered New Zealand's earthquake-prone landscape is even more unstable than previously thought, recording deep tremors lasting up to 30 minutes on its biggest fault line. http://phys.org/news256966156.html Space & Earth Wed, 23 May 2012 04:29:31 EST news256966156 (AP) -- The massive earthquake off Indonesia surprised scientists: Usually this type of jolt isn't this powerful. http://phys.org/news253384811.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:40:15 EST news253384811 (AP) -- The owner of a northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling plans to remove material from it to help lower its inner pressure following 11 minor earthquakes. http://phys.org/news244958609.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:20:02 EST news244958609 A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday. http://phys.org/news244781605.html Space & Earth Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:53:36 EST news244781605 (PhysOrg.com) -- The earthquake that shook University Park and the entire northeast yesterday afternoon (Aug. 23) was unusual in its strength but not an unusual event, according to a Penn State geophysicists. http://phys.org/news233485484.html Space & Earth Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:50:03 EST news233485484 (AP) -- The East Coast doesn't get earthquakes often but when they do strike, there's a whole lot more shaking going on. The ground in the East is older, colder and more intact than the West Coast or the famous Pacific Ring of Fire. So East Coast quakes rattle an area up to 10 times larger than a similar-sized West Coast temblor. http://phys.org/news233400406.html Space & Earth Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:27:15 EST news233400406 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a bit of coincidental news, no sooner had earthquake scientists posted warnings about the instability of the southern part of the San Andreas Fault hidden beneath the Salton Sea, than an earthquake struck; albeit it, a rather small one, in just that part of southern California. The study, by the Scripps Institute for Oceanography, just published in Nature Geoscience, points out the alarming fact that the fault beneath the Salton Sea has a track record of producing serious earthquakes with regularity every 180 years or so, but has now gone without producing one for 325. http://phys.org/news228388215.html Space & Earth Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:10:43 EST news228388215 The recent monster quake that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, geologists say, loading stress onto a different segment of the fault line much closer to Tokyo. http://phys.org/news219935274.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:30:04 EST news219935274 (AP) -- Villagers briefly returned home Tuesday to check their farms along the fertile slopes of an Indonesian volcano that erupted after laying dormant for more than four centuries - catching many scientists off-guard. http://phys.org/news202448683.html Space & Earth Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:44:54 EST news202448683 (PhysOrg.com) -- The earthquake that struck Haiti took place along what is called a strike-slip fault -- a place where tectonic plates on each side of a fault line are moving horizontally in opposite directions, like hands rubbing together. When these plates lock together, stress builds; eventually they slip; and this produces shaking. http://phys.org/news184488365.html Space & Earth Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:20:04 EST news184488365 (PhysOrg.com) -- The potential for large earthquakes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic was forecast by a model of the northeastern Caribbean created by a team of experts. http://phys.org/news183045726.html Space & Earth Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:02:39 EST news183045726 (PhysOrg.com) -- The fault responsible for the Jan. 12 magnitude 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti is visible in images created using NASA radar topography data acquired in 2000. http://phys.org/news182788360.html Space & Earth Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:34:47 EST news182788360 The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that triggered disastrous destruction and mounting death tolls in Haiti this week occurred in a highly complex tangle of tectonic faults near the intersection of the Caribbean and North American crustal plates, according to a quake expert at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) who has studied faults in the region and throughout the world. http://phys.org/news182697401.html Space & Earth Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:17:16 EST news182697401 (PhysOrg.com) -- Some slow-moving faults may help protect some regions of Italy and other parts of the world against destructive earthquakes, suggests new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. http://phys.org/news170672915.html Space & Earth Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:09:53 EST news170672915 Powerful earthquakes that have jolted Asia recently do not presage a disaster, although it is only a matter of time before the next catastrophe befalls the quake-prone region, seismologists say. http://phys.org/news170257984.html Space & Earth Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:54:02 EST news170257984