News tagged with seismic stations
Project seeks a better image inside Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are installing underground seismographs across the US to glean better information about the Earth's interior, and Michigan Tech is deeply into it.
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Aug 24, 2010 |
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New understanding of Earth's lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath the Pacific Ocean
Scientists have long speculated about why there is a large change in the strength of rocks that lie at the boundary between two layers immediately under Earth's crust: the lithosphere and underlying asthenosphere. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2012 |
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EarthScope Seismic Sensors Head East of the Mississippi
Most seismic activity--and earthquakes--have been in the U.S. West. But the East is not out of the woods in terms of risk, geologists say.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2011 |
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New monitoring stations detect 'silent earthquakes' in Costa Rica
After installing an extensive network of monitoring stations in Costa Rica, researchers have detected slow slip events (also known as "silent earthquakes") along a major fault zone beneath the Nicoya Peninsula. These findings ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Earth-shaking research to predict devastation from earthquakes
The computational science expertise at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory is playing a key role in enabling researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Scientists develop new approach to mine disasters
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah scientists devised a new way to find miners trapped by cave-ins. The method involves installing iron plates and sledgehammers at regular intervals inside mines, and sensitive ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 26, 2009 |
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USGS monitoring Twitter for earthquake details
(AP) -- OMG! Earthquake!
Dec 15, 2009 |
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