The lack of human activity during lockdown caused human-linked vibrations in the Earth to drop by an average of 50% between March and May 2020.
Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2020
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New Zealand research could help track the path of searingly hot rock and gas flows that are the world's most deadly volcanic hazard.
Earth Sciences
May 16, 2023
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Scientists have uncovered the source of a mysterious 2021 tsunami that sent waves around the globe.
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2022
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On Sept. 18, NASA's InSight lander celebrated its 1,000th Martian day, or sol, by measuring one of the biggest, longest-lasting marsquakes the mission has ever detected. The temblor is estimated to be about a magnitude 4.2 ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 22, 2021
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Measures of Earth's vibrations zigged and zagged across Mostafa Mousavi's screen one morning in Memphis, Tenn. As part of his Ph.D. studies in geophysics, he sat scanning earthquake signals recorded the night before, verifying ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2020
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River scientists from Sweden, Finland and Germany report detailed measurements of sediment movement and water level in an ice-covered river using a novel technique—seismic signals. The results are published in the Journal ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 18, 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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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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For the first time, seismologists can characterize signals as a result of some industrial human activity on a continent-wide scale using cloud computing. In two recently published papers in Seismological Research Letters, ...
Earth Sciences
May 20, 2020
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Machine-learning research published in two related papers today in Nature Geoscience reports the detection of seismic signals accurately predicting the Cascadia fault's slow slippage, a type of failure observed to precede ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2018
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