Earthquake early-warning system will mean false alarms but it's still worth it, researchers say
Earthquake early warnings can come as false alarms—but it's better to be safer than sorry, researchers concluded in a new study.
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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By mathematically modeling the movements of a locomotive that toppled from the tracks north of San Francisco during the city's infamous 1906 earthquake, researchers have calculated a lower limit on the earthquake ground motion ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 30, 2019
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A recently published study led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology reveals Ganymede, an icy moon of Jupiter, appears to have undergone complex periods of geologic ...
Space Exploration
Oct 10, 2018
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With four years of data from 268 seismometers on the ocean floor and several hundred on land, researchers have found anomalies in the upper mantle below both ends of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. They may influence the location, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2018
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Back in 1905, the Colorado River, swollen with heavy rainfall and snowmelt, surged into a dry lake bed along California's San Andreas Fault and formed the Salton Sea. The flood waters submerged most of the small town of Salton, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2018
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Many researchers hypothesize that the southern tip of the 1300-km-long San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) could be the nucleation site of the next major earthquake on the fault, yet geoscientists cannot evaluate this hazard until ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 19, 2018
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Geologists have long thought that the central section of California's famed San Andreas Fault—from San Juan Bautista southward to Parkfield, a distance of about 80 miles—has a steady creeping movement that provides a ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2018
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A light earthquake was felt widely in Southern California before dawn Tuesday but there were no reports of damage.
Environment
May 8, 2018
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Southern California defines cool. The perfect climes of San Diego, the glitz of Hollywood, the magic of Disneyland. The geology is pretty spectacular, as well.
Earth Sciences
May 2, 2018
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Stanford geophysicists have developed a detailed map of the stresses that act in the Earth throughout the Permian Basin in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, highlighting areas of the oil-rich region that could be at ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2018
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