New testing conducted in a steep, mountainous region of Utah, using mining induced events, is providing a new set of data necessary for better predictions.
Earth Sciences
Dec 5, 2011
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and other scientific institutions are using social media and crowdsourcing to learn more about earthquakes, according to a new report. These techniques provide inexpensive and rapid data ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2013
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A dormant volcano in Antarctica helped researchers at Sandia National Laboratories improve sensor data readings to better detect earthquakes and explosions and tune out everyday sounds such as traffic and footsteps.
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2018
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South Korea is a relatively quiet country, seismically speaking, but a recent study identified more than 182,000 small seismic events—135,000 of which were related to mining explosions, according to a presentation at the ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2023
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A closer look at small earthquakes that took place at the Oroville Dam in California's Sierra Nevada foothills in February 2017—near the time when the dam's spillway failed—suggest that the seismic activity was related ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2018
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Using computer analysis prior to drilling could limit seismic events as a result of hydraulic fracturing, according to new research published in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal.
Environment
Nov 10, 2015
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Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University and Ritsumeikan University have found a link between the "roundness" distribution of tsunami deposits and how far tsunamis reach inland. They sampled the "roundness" of gravel ...
Environment
Aug 26, 2019
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An active underground mine can be a seismically noisy environment, full of signals generated by heavy machinery at work and induced seismicity. Now, researchers working with data from a longwall coal mine demonstrate a way ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2022
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(AP)—North Korea apparently conducted a widely anticipated nuclear test Tuesday, strongly indicated by an "explosion-like" earthquake that monitoring agencies around the globe said appeared to be unnatural.
Internet
Feb 12, 2013
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Seismology has a Big Data problem. Northwestern University seismologists think everyday citizens are the solution.
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2019
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