Magnitude 3.6 quake shakes part of Southern California
A small earthquake gave some Southern California residents a predawn wakeup call.
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Apr 03, 2019
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News tagged with small earthquakes
Seoul: Small quake in North Korea likely due to mining blast
A small earthquake in North Korea was likely caused by a mining operation, Seoul's weather agency said Friday.
Environment
Mar 08, 2019
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Oroville Dam earthquakes in February 2017 related to spillway discharge
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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Seismic analysis identifies 2017 North Korean nuclear explosion, collapse, earthquakes
Careful analysis of data collected after the 3 September 2017 North Korean declared nuclear test explosion has allowed seismologists to distinguish the separate seismic signatures of the explosion, a collapse of the explosion ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2018
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Geoscientists find unexpected 'deep creep' near San Andreas, San Jacinto faults
A new analysis of thousands of very small earthquakes that have occurred in the San Bernardino basin near the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults suggests that the unusual deformation of some—they move in a different way ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 18, 2018
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Some calming of Hawaii volcano, but scientists remain wary
The number of homes destroyed by lava shooting out of openings in the ground created by Hawaii's Kilauea volcano climbed to five as some of the more than 1,700 people who evacuated prepared for the possibility they may not ...
Environment
May 06, 2018
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Series of small quakes rattle area near Mount St. Helens
A series of small earthquakes has rattled an area northeast of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state.
Environment
Jan 03, 2018
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Methane still leaking from the ground at site of gas explosion decades ago
A team with members from several institutions in the Netherlands has found that the area around a site where a gas explosion occurred in 1965 is still emitting methane gas from the ground into the air. In their paper published ...
Small earthquakes at fracking sites may be early indicators of bigger tremors to come
Stanford geoscientists have devised a way of detecting thousands of faint, previously missed earthquakes triggered by hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."
Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2017
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New study takes a different approach to showing human activity causing earthquakes in Texas
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Southern Methodist University in Texas and the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazard Program in Virginia has taken a new approach to studying the increase of earthquakes in Texas. ...
