Geophysicists at Caltech have created a new method for determining earthquake hazards by measuring how fast energy is building up on faults in a specific region, and then comparing that to how much is being released through ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2019
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If the partial shutdown of the U.S. government, doesn't have you quaking, maybe it should.
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2019
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Lingering motion sickness is one of the occupational hazards of working at sea off the coast of Japan for three weeks. Hiroki Sone can attest to that, having spent part of the fall 2018 semester on the deepest scientific ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2019
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A German study shows that magma could rise from the upper mantle into the middle and upper crust beneath the Laacher See Volcano (Rhineland-Palatinate). This is the result of a study conducted by the Seismological Survey ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2019
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A new study by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) could help us understand how our planet was formed.
Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2018
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Starting next year, scientists will get their first look deep below the surface of Mars.
Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2018
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Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) systems depend on speed and accuracy in delivering seismic monitoring data to areas at risk from a quake or volcanic eruption. Paul Bodin of the University of Washington and colleagues have ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2015
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For the first time, a natural source of infrasonic waves of Earth has been measured directly from space—450 kilometers above the planet's surface. The source was the massive 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake in Japan, and its ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2015
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More than 143 million Americans living in the 48 contiguous states are exposed to potentially damaging ground shaking from earthquakes, with as many as 28 million people likely to experience strong shaking during their lifetime, ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 22, 2015
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The "seismic crisis" around the region of the Chiles and Cerro Negro de Mayasquer volcanoes near the Columbia-Ecuador border is likely caused by intruding magma, according to a report by R. Corredor Torres of the Servicio ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 22, 2015
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