What we can learn from the world's biggest waves?
Alaska is renowned for its postcard pretty mountains, vast spaces and massive earthquakes.
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Simulating 800,000 years of California earthquake history to pinpoint risks
Massive earthquakes are, fortunately, rare events. But that scarcity of information blinds us in some ways to their risks, especially when it comes to determining the risk for a specific location or structure.
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Jan 25, 2021
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Disaster database cements itself as go-to hub for natural hazard information
In Seattle, "the big one"—a massive earthquake that could devastate the region—represents an ominous threat. So widespread are the concerns that city leaders there created standards to fortify new skyscrapers using data ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2020
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Fukushima clean-up reduces radiation levels, but not all
Clean-up efforts at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011, have significantly reduced radiation levels but untreated forested areas remain a problem, scientists said Thursday.
Environment
Dec 12, 2019
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Critics blast Oregon repeal of tsunami-zone building ban
With sunlight sparkling off surrounding Yaquina Bay, workers are putting up an ocean-studies building, smack in the middle of an area expected to one day be hit by a tsunami.
Environment
Aug 16, 2019
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Massive Bolivian earthquake reveals mountains 660 kilometers below our feet
Most schoolchildren learn that the Earth has three (or four) layers: a crust, mantle and core, which is sometimes subdivided into an inner and outer core. That's not wrong, but it does leave out several other layers that ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 14, 2019
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Robot lifts bits of melted fuel at Japan's Fukushima plant
A robot arm has successfully picked up pebble-sized pieces of radioactive fuel at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in a complex operation seen as key to clean-up efforts after the 2011 meltdown, officials said Thursday.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 14, 2019
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Robot probes radioactive fuel at Japan's Fukushima plant
A robot will attempt to examine radioactive fuel at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant on Wednesday in a complex operation seen as key to clean-up efforts after the 2011 meltdown.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 13, 2019
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Anxiety in Alaska as endless aftershocks rattle residents
Seven weeks after a massive earthquake rocked Alaska, aftershocks are still shattering 7-year-old Connor Cartwright's sense of safety.
Environment
Jan 19, 2019
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Fighting climate change in the shadow of Mount Everest
Formed in the shadow of Mount Everest, the turquoise depths of Nepal's Imja glacial lake would be a breathtaking miracle of nature to behold—were they not a portent of catastrophic floods.
Environment
Dec 11, 2018
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