Earthquake early warnings can come as false alarms—but it's better to be safer than sorry, researchers concluded in a new study.
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2019
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In recent weeks, the volcanic island of Lombok, in Indonesia, has been battered by a series of powerful earthquakes, each greater than M6 and each located deep beneath Lombok's volcanic complex. The very presence of the volcano ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2018
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The Indonesian holiday island of Lombok has been hammered by a series of powerful earthquakes in the past three weeks that have killed more than 500 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
Environment
Aug 20, 2018
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Researchers at Tohoku University's Department of Geophysics have been studying the great Tohoku-oki earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, to the east of Japan's Honshu Island (Fig. 1).
Earth Sciences
Jul 4, 2018
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By analyzing sediment cores from Chilean lakes, an international team of scientists discovered that giant earthquakes reoccur with relatively regular intervals. When also taking into account smaller earthquakes, the repeat ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 30, 2018
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When three major hurricanes and just as many powerful earthquakes happen at around the same time, as they did in 2017, many wonder if they are connected.
Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2018
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Southern California has the highest earthquake risk of any region in the U.S., but exactly how risky and where the greatest risks lie remains an open question.
Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2017
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Nepal has begun remeasuring Mount Everest to check if the height of the world's tallest peak was altered by a powerful earthquake that struck the nation in 2015, the government said Friday.
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2017
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A strong earthquake struck Sunday off the coast of southern Sumatra in Indonesia, causing panicked residents to run from their homes but no major damage.
Environment
Aug 13, 2017
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Chinese monitors say they've detected multiple landslides but no major building collapses following a powerful earthquake in the country's mountainous southwest that killed at least 19 people.
Environment
Aug 10, 2017
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