Geoscientists and natural disaster management experts are well aware of the risk prevailing in the megacity of Istanbul: The Istanbul metropolitan region faces a high probability for a large earthquake in the near future. ...
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Mar 3, 2016
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A spate of major earthquakes on small faults could overturn traditional views about how earthquakes start, according to a study from researchers at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior in Ensenada, ...
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Feb 16, 2016
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A strong earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia on Friday, apparently knocking out communications on islands near the epicenter.
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Feb 12, 2016
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A team of researchers, including one from the University of California, Riverside, has discovered that earthquake ruptures can jump much further than previously thought, a finding that could have severe implications on the ...
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Feb 8, 2016
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A strong earthquake of at least a 7.0 magnitude struck in Russia's Far East on Saturday morning, US and Russian scientists said, sending tremors across the coastal peninsula.
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Jan 30, 2016
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Seismologists working along California's San Andreas Fault near Cholame and Parkfield now have a better idea of how and where friction changes along the fault to produce both shallow earthquakes and the deeper earth tremors ...
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Jan 25, 2016
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A strong earthquake struck off North Sulawesi province in central Indonesia, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
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Jan 12, 2016
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A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia, but officials say there is no threat of a tsunami.
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Dec 9, 2015
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Continental transform faults evolve when two plates slide along each other. The most prominent examples are the San Andreas Fault in California and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey. Earthquakes along those faults typically ...
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Dec 7, 2015
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A new NASA-led analysis of a moderate magnitude 5.1 earthquake that shook Greater Los Angeles in 2014 finds that the earthquake deformed Earth's crust across a broad region encompassing the northern Los Angeles Basin and ...
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Oct 21, 2015
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