The 1971 San Fernando quake led the USGS and Caltech to join forces, expanding seismic monitoring through the region
Earth Sciences
Feb 9, 2021
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China and Nepal jointly announced a new official height for Mount Everest on Tuesday, ending a discrepancy between the two nations.
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2020
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Sylvain Barbot is trying to do what can't be done yet: reliably predict earthquakes. The assistant professor at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences knows that it's impossible—at least not yet. But he ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 7, 2020
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Researchers at the University of Washington, Portland State University and the University of Oregon have shown that deep-seated landslides in the central Oregon Coast Range are triggered mostly by rainfall, not by large offshore ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2020
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Otago researchers examining the impacts of post-earthquake cordons on residents and businesses say policy makers should pre-plan for cordon use to minimize negative outcomes.
Political science
Sep 3, 2020
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It is not yet possible to predict earthquakes, but the analysis of different types of seismic data allows scientists to pinpoint where and when each type of earthquake originated, and hence better understand when and where ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 6, 2020
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The activity of the solid Earth—for example, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Japan, etc.—is well understood within the context of the ~50-year-old theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits that Earth's outer shell ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2020
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The intense rainfall from storms this winter has caused severe flooding in numerous cities across the UK. The storms have left at least eight people dead, and economic losses have been estimated at a few billion pounds. The ...
Environment
Mar 12, 2020
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Applying deep learning to seismic data has revealed tremor and slip occur at all times—before and after known large-scale slow-slip earthquakes—rather than intermittently in discrete bursts, as previously believed. Even ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2020
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Up to now, there was no way of predicting whether a powerful earthquake was likely to be followed by one of even greater magnitude. But the results of a study recently published in Nature by Laura Gulia and Stefan Wiemer ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2019
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