News tagged with geophysical measurements

Fukushima faces increased quake risk - study

Japan's crippled nuclear plant at Fukushima needs to beef up safety measures to face the risk of a large earthquake, scientists said on Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The world's biggest radar laboratory

In the past year, the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility deployed 18 new scanning radars at its research sites in Oklahoma, Alaska, and the tropical western Pacific. These ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Unique geologic insights from 'non-unique' gravity and magnetic interpretation

(PhysOrg.com) -- In many fields of applied science, such as geology, there are often tensions and disagreements between scientists who specialize in analyses of problems using mathematical models to describe sets of collected ...

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created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research confirms it's a small world, after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA-led research team has confirmed what Walt Disney told us all along: Earth really is a small world, after all.

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created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Antarctic glacier thinning at alarming rate

(PhysOrg.com) -- The thinning of a gigantic glacier in Antarctica is accelerating, scientists warned today.

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created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 4

The continents as a heat blanket

Drifting of the large tectonic plates and the superimposed continents is not only powered by the heat-driven convection processes in the Earth's mantle, but rather retroacts on this internal driving processes. In doing so, ...

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created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3