News tagged with seismic hazard
San Andreas Fault in Santa Cruz Mountains -- large quakes more frequent than previously thought
Recent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing earthquakes that occurred across the Santa Cruz Mountains section of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) in the past 500 years. The research, conducted by the U.S. Geological ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 30, 2012 |
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Parts of Mt Fuji 'could collapse' if fault shifts
Parts of Japan's Mount Fuji, a national symbol and key tourist attraction, could collapse if a newly-discovered faultline under the mountain shifts, a government-commissioned report has warned.
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May 11, 2012 |
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New seismic hazard assessment for Central America
A new study evaluates the seismic hazards for the entire Central America, including specific assessments for six capital cities, with the greatest hazard expected for Guatemala City and San Salvador, followed by Managua and ...
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Mar 29, 2012 |
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Late Pleistocene structural evolution of the Camarillo fold belt
The Camarillo fold belt (CFB) in the Western Transverse Ranges poses a significant seismic hazard to nearly one million people living in Southern California, yet few published geologic or geochronological data from this fold ...
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Tohoku grim reminder of potential for Pacific Northwest megaquake
Tohoku earthquake is a grim reminder of the potential for another strong-motion mega-earthquake along the Pacific Northwest coast, geophysicist John Anderson of the University of Nevada, Reno told members of the American ...
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Feb 21, 2012 |
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Asia nuclear reactors face tsunami risk
(AP) -- The skeleton of what will soon be one of the world's biggest nuclear plants is slowly taking shape along China's southeastern coast - right on the doorstep of Hong Kong's bustling metropolis. Three ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Japan's seismologists blinded to March 11 quake: journal
Japan's seismologists were so entrenched in outdated beliefs about seismic hazard that they became blinkered to the risk of the March 11 mega-quake, a commentary in a top science journal charged on Wednesday.
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Apr 13, 2011 |
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New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones
Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...
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Dec 04, 2009 |
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University of Nevada, Reno, surveys earthquake faults through downtown
The Seismological Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno is finishing the first phase of seismic surveying through downtown as part of U.S. Geological Survey study to create an earthquake hazard map in the ...
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Jun 16, 2009 |
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