http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. 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 Taiwan began building its first undersea earthquake sensor on Sunday in a project aiming to give earlier warnings of the quakes and tsunamis that frequently hit the region. http://phys.org/news219899454.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Mar 2011 04:20:02 EST news219899454 It is well known that the surface of our planet is made up of a number of tectonic plates that are much like a massive global jigsaw puzzle. These plates move constantly and are always in contact with each other. When that motion is sudden, the result can be what happened in Japan on March 11 – a devastating earthquake. http://phys.org/news219594519.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:29:32 EST news219594519 (AP) -- Take the world's most earthquake-prepared country, jolt it with one of the biggest quakes in history and add a devastating tsunami minutes later. In the classic battle of Man vs. Nature, Nature won again. http://phys.org/news219064567.html Space & Earth Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:16:17 EST news219064567 (PhysOrg.com) -- The formation of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado has always puzzled scientists. Some 600 miles inland and far removed from the nearest tectonic plate, the only comparable inland mountain range is the Himalaya, which scientists deduced were formed by the collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate. http://phys.org/news218140565.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:10:01 EST news218140565 (PhysOrg.com) -- A day after a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked Christchurch, a city of 377,000 on New Zealand's South Island, on Feb. 22, 2011, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft imaged the Christchurch region. The imaging was done at the request of the International Charter, Space and Major Disasters, which provides emergency satellite data to federal agencies in disaster-stricken regions. http://phys.org/news217854232.html Space & Earth Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:04:17 EST news217854232 On an isolated segment of islands in the Pacific Ring of Fire, residents endure volcanoes, tsunamis, dense fog, steep cliffs and long and chilly winters. Sounds homey, huh? http://phys.org/news217441092.html Space & Earth Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:19:57 EST news217441092 New data suggest that the Limon and Pedro Miguel faults in Central Panama have ruptured both independently and in unison over the past 1400 years, indicating a significant seismic risk for Panama City and the Panama Canal, according to research published today by the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA). http://phys.org/news209312723.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:26:49 EST news209312723 The Earth is constantly manufacturing new crust, spewing molten magma up along undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates. The process is critical to the planet's metabolism, including the cycle of underwater life and the delicate balance of carbon in the ocean and atmosphere. http://phys.org/news209061316.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:10:08 EST news209061316 An international team of scientists have reset the agenda for future research in the highly diverse Amazon region by showing that the extraordinary diversity found there is much older than generally thought. http://phys.org/news208709727.html Biology Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:55:40 EST news208709727 India will kick off its first scientific expedition to the South Pole on Monday to analyse environmental changes in the frozen continent over the past 1,000 years, the mission leader said Saturday. http://phys.org/news207809832.html Space & Earth Mon, 01 Nov 2010 06:40:01 EST news207809832 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Bristol reveal today in the journal Nature that they have developed a seismological 'speed gun' for the inside of the Earth. Using this technique they will be able to measure the way the Earth's deep interior slowly moves around. This mantle motion is what controls the location of our continents and oceans, and where the tectonic plates collide to shake the surface we live on. http://phys.org/news207404586.html Space & Earth Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:23:13 EST news207404586 (PhysOrg.com) -- The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that caused more than 200,000 casualties and devastated Haiti's economy in January resulted not from the Enriquillo fault, as previously believed, but from slip on multiple faults -- primarily a previously unknown, subsurface fault -- according to a study published online this week in Nature Geoscience. http://phys.org/news206292096.html Space & Earth Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:40:01 EST news206292096 (PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists studying the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake say the risk of destructive tsunamis is higher than expected in places such as Kingston, Istanbul, and Los Angeles. http://phys.org/news205936269.html Space & Earth Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:31:31 EST news205936269 Internationally renowned geophysicist Dr Wouter Schellart has developed the first dynamic model to explain the mystery of the largest and most fascinating volcano in Europe, Mount Etna. http://phys.org/news205663625.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:47:46 EST news205663625 It's easy to be a pessimist in a world full of calamities. But for those worried about the continuing availability of natural resources, data from the ocean makes a good case for optimism, says economic geologist Lawrence Cathles. http://phys.org/news205662831.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:34:17 EST news205662831 For the first time, scientists are using advanced technology and an innovative vessel to study, image, and map the unexplored offshore Northern San Andreas Fault from north of San Francisco to its termination at the junction of three tectonic plates off Mendocino, Calif. http://phys.org/news205083719.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:00:01 EST news205083719 Transform faults subdivide the mid-ocean ridge into segments. Up until now, it was thought that these faults were ruptures that formed in less stable crust areas. Taras Gerya has recorded a model of the dynamics that lead to the transform faults, which shows that what were assumed to be ruptures are in fact structures that have grown naturally. http://phys.org/news202484742.html Space & Earth Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:46:15 EST news202484742 (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 A new theory developed at Purdue University may solve the mystery of why the New Madrid fault, which lies in the middle of the continent and not along a tectonic plate boundary, produces large earthquakes such as the ones that shook the eastern United States in 1811 and 1812. http://phys.org/news199711031.html Space & Earth Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:39 EST news199711031 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Banda arc - a gigantic 1,000km long, 180-degree curve in eastern Indonesia - has puzzled geologists for many years, with much debate and controversy surrounding its complex origin and evolution. A solution to this enigma, resolving many of the previous problems, has finally been found by scientists at Royal Holloway, University of London and Utrecht University, and is published in Nature Geoscience this week. http://phys.org/news199378505.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:56:30 EST news199378505 A team of researchers including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego geophysicist Dave Stegman has developed a new theory to explain the global motions of tectonic plates on the earth's surface. http://phys.org/news198495599.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:40:43 EST news198495599 While prospectors and geologists have been successful in finding diamonds through diligent searching, one University of Houston professor and his team's work could help improve the odds by focusing future searches in particular areas. http://phys.org/news198326735.html Space & Earth Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:00:01 EST news198326735 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow are embarking on a project to try to establish how and when southern Africa obtained its unusually high elevation - which might also explain a key event in human evolution. http://phys.org/news196960954.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:50:01 EST news196960954 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has released the first-ever airborne radar images of the deformation in Earth's surface caused by a major earthquake -- the magnitude 7.2 temblor that rocked Mexico's state of Baja California and parts of the American Southwest on April 4. http://phys.org/news196601005.html Space & Earth Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:50:03 EST news196601005 Geological investigations in the Himalayas have revealed evidence that when India and Asia collided some 90 million years ago, the continental crust of the Indian tectonic plate was forced down under the Asian plate, sinking down into the Earth's mantle to a depth of at least 200 km kilometers. http://phys.org/news194263023.html Space & Earth Fri, 28 May 2010 10:58:37 EST news194263023 A prominent US environmentalist said Wednesday Japan should focus on developing geothermal energy, saying the volcanic island-nation could become the global leader in the field. http://phys.org/news194070879.html Technology Wed, 26 May 2010 05:40:02 EST news194070879 On August 15, 2007, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck in Central Peru, killing more than 500 people—primarily in the town of Pisco, which was heavily damaged by the temblor—and triggering a tsunami that flooded Pisco's shore and parts of Lima's Costa Verde highway. The rupture occurred as the Nazca tectonic plate slipped underneath the South American plate in what is known as a subduction zone. http://phys.org/news192287887.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 May 2010 14:20:18 EST news192287887 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new model of the Earth, 20 years in the making, describes a dynamic three-dimensional puzzle of planetary proportions. http://phys.org/news188500078.html Space & Earth Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:08:38 EST news188500078 (PhysOrg.com) -- A series of major earthquakes have struck countries in the Caribbean, South America and Asia, causing catastrophic damage. Large-scale relief efforts are in place in the hardest-hit nations, including Haiti and Chile.  Northeastern earth and environmental sciences professor Jennifer Cole discusses what causes earthquakes and how one natural disaster can lead to another. http://phys.org/news187972344.html Space & Earth Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:10:04 EST news187972344