Oil field operations likely triggered earthquakes in California a few miles from the San Andreas Fault
The way companies drill for oil and gas and dispose of wastewater can trigger earthquakes, at times in unexpected places.
The way companies drill for oil and gas and dispose of wastewater can trigger earthquakes, at times in unexpected places.
Earth Sciences
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The complex plumbing system beneath volcanoes has been revealed in the clearest detail ever, marking a "major step forward" in our understanding of how they are formed and behave.
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2020
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Vibrations in the ground may help to improve advanced warnings about sudden floods that result from glacial melting, according to a study published today in Science Advances.
Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2020
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The ten km long, bright white coast of Germany's largest island, Rügen, is shaped by episodically occurring failures. These failures were typically assumed to happen due to strong rain storms. In a study carried out over ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2020
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Italy has found a possible link between increases in CO2 emissions from groundwater and earthquake occurrences in Italy's Apennine Mountains. In their paper published ...
Researchers at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering are using data gathered before a deadly 2017 landslide in Greenland to show how deep learning may someday help predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2020
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Aaron Lojewski, who leads aurora sightseeing tours in Alaska, was lucky enough to photograph a "eruption" of brilliant pink light in the night skies one night in February.
Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2020
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Compared with our own planet Earth, Mars might seem like a "dead" planet, but even there, the wind blows and the ground moves. On Earth, we study the ambient seismic noise rippling mainly due to ocean activity to peek underground ...
Space Exploration
Jul 2, 2020
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A new study made by Jordi Díaz, researcher at Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera of the Spanish National Research Council (ICTJA-CSIC), has compared the different types of bell ringing to indicate the passage of time ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2020
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A new study by University of Alberta geologists is proposing a new model for explaining the eruption of diamond-bearing kimberlites in Northern Alberta.
Earth Sciences
Jun 2, 2020
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