Natural Disasters News
May 14, 2024
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May 10, 2024 New research into molten rock 20km below the Earth's surface could help save lives by improving the prediction of volcanic ...
May 8, 2024 Episodes of heavy snowfall and rain likely contributed to a swarm of earthquakes over the past several years in northern Japan, researchers find. Their study shows climate conditions could initiate some ...
May 7, 2024 A research group explores how the makeup of rocks, specifically their permeability -- or how easily fluids can flow through them -- affects the frequency and intensity of slow slip events. Slow ...
May 6, 2024 The names might not be familiar -- Cowee Creek, Brabazon Range, Upper Pederson Lagoon -- but they mark the sites of recent lake tsunamis, a phenomenon that is increasingly common in Alaska, British Columbia and other regions with mountain glaciers. ...
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May 9, 2024 A study showed that about half of those surveyed in the mid-South could not accurately identify a tornado ...
May 1, 2024 A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the ...
Apr. 29, 2024 Using aerial imagery data and LiDAR, a study remotely identified the hardest-hit areas of Southwest Florida's Estero Island in the aftermath of ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Landslides are one of the most destructive natural disasters on the planet, causing billions of dollars of damage and devastating loss of life every year. A global team of researchers has provided ...
Apr. 23, 2024 An assistant professor conducted a study in which he lived among one of the poorest, most marginalized communities in Seoul, South Korea. In the ...
Apr. 19, 2024 Earthquakes and landslides are famously difficult to predict and prepare for. By studying a miniature version of the ground in the lab, scientists have demonstrated how these events can be triggered ...
Apr. 16, 2024 By fueling the growth of plants that become kindling, carbon dioxide is driving an increase in the severity and frequency of wildfires, according to a new ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Cloud 'engineering' could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Using machine learning, researchers have tied low-magnitude microearthquakes to the permeability of subsurface rocks beneath the Earth, a discovery that could have implications for improving ...
Apr. 9, 2024 Understanding how social media is used during a disaster can help with disaster preparedness and recovery for future ...
Earlier Headlines
Mar. 26, 2024 Scientists successfully addressed mathematical challenges in conventional Spectral Matrix analysis, used to analyze three-component seismic signals, by introducing time-delay components. The new ...
Mar. 25, 2024 A new study reveals how fire suppression ensures that wildfires will burn under extreme conditions at high severity, exacerbating the impacts of climate change and fuel ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Seattle may have experienced its own Swift Quake last July, but at an August 2023 concert Taylor Swift's fans in Los Angeles gave scientists a lot of shaking to ponder. After some debate, a ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Researchers examined demographics, infrastructure and more than seven decades of weather data to determine which places in Kentucky are most vulnerable to ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are beneficial in search and rescue missions during natural disasters like earthquakes. However, current UAVs depend on visual information and cannot detect victims ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, and that number will increase with climate change, according to a new ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Scientists uncover the intricate dance between drought, wildfires and invasive species in Southern California's coastal sage scrub ...
Feb. 22, 2024 Worsening human-induced climate change may have effects beyond the widely reported rising sea levels, higher temperatures, and impacts on food supply and migration -- and may also extend to ...
Feb. 22, 2024 Forests in the coolest, wettest parts of the western Pacific Northwest are likely to see the biggest increases in burn probability, fire size and number of blazes as the climate continues to get ...
Feb. 22, 2024 A detailed survey of the volcanic underwater deposits around the Kikai caldera in Japan clarified the deposition mechanisms as well as the event's magnitude. As a result, the research team found ...
Feb. 21, 2024 Researchers have devised a way to remotely detect large landslides within minutes of occurrence and to quickly determine whether they are close to open water and present a tsunami ...
Feb. 20, 2024 A new studyshows wildfires lead to an increase of anxiety-related emergency department visits in the western United States, amplifying the concerning parallel trajectory of two escalating public ...
Feb. 16, 2024 A new measure that compares earthquake-related fatalities to a country's population size concludes that Ecuador, Lebanon, Haiti, Turkmenistan, Iran and Portugal have experienced the greatest ...
Feb. 15, 2024 Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones -- where tectonic plates collide -- could help scientists make better predictions of how these zones behave during the years between major ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Inspired during field work in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, geoscientists have proposed that all-time low volcanic carbon dioxide emissions triggered a 57-million-year-long global ...
Feb. 7, 2024 A more accurate way of identifying underground nuclear tests, including those conducted in secret, has been ...
Feb. 6, 2024 The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, threatening to create damaging earthquakes for the more than four million people who live there. A ...
Jan. 24, 2024 A movable seawall system, capable of generating sufficient electricity to raise gates and protect ports against tsunamis, has been proposed by researchers. The system has been found feasible in areas ...
Jan. 23, 2024 Inspired by a 1725 fire engine that pumped water at larger distances and higher speeds than previously possible, authors analyzed the pressure chamber's Windkessel effect to capture the physics ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- What Kinds of Seismic Signals Did Swifties Send at LA Concert?
- Ready for the Storm: Researchers Analyze Infrastructure, Demographics to See Where Tornadoes Are Most Disruptive
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- Climate Change Threatens Thousands of Archaeological Sites in Coastal Georgia
- Study Finds Drought Fuels Invasive Species After Wildfires
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Climate Change Linked to Rise in Mental Distress Among Teens, According to Drexel Study
- Cooler, Wetter Parts of Pacific Northwest Likely to See More Fires, New Simulations Predict
- Biggest Holocene Volcano Eruption Found by Seabed Survey
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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Friday, February 16, 2024
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- Ancient Rocks Improve Understanding of Tectonic Activity Between Earthquakes
- What Turned Earth Into a Giant Snowball 700 Million Years Ago? Scientists Now Have an Answer
- New Method to More Accurately Spot Underground Nuclear Tests
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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Monday, December 18, 2023
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Monday, December 4, 2023
- Recycling Concrete Using Carbon Can Reduce Emissions and Waste
- Strange Burn: New Research Identifies Unique Patterns in Utah Wildfires
- More Than a Meteorite: New Clues About the Demise of Dinosaurs
Monday, November 20, 2023
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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
- Hebrew Prayer Book Fills Gap in Italian Earthquake History
- The Remains of an Ancient Planet Lie Deep Within Earth
- Human Emissions Increased Mercury in the Atmosphere Sevenfold
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
- California Supervolcano Is Cooling Off but May Still Cause Quakes
- Ancient Diamonds Shine Light on the Evolution of Earth
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
- Volcanic Ash Effects on Earth Systems
- Discovery of Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Could Explain New Zealand's Mysterious Slow Earthquakes
- Extreme Fires and Heavy Rainfall Driving Platypuses from Their Homes
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
- Tree Rings Reveal a New Kind of Earthquake Threat to the Pacific Northwest, US
- Exploring the Effect of Water on Seismic Wave Attenuation in the Upper Mantle
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
- Largest Historic Fire Death Toll Belongs to Aftermath of 1923 Japan Earthquake
- New Super-Fast Flood Model Has Potentially Life-Saving Benefits
Monday, September 11, 2023
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Monday, August 14, 2023
- Death Tolls from Climate Disasters Will 'balloon' Without Investment in Africa's Weather Stations
- Dry Lightning Can Spark Wildfires Even Under Wetter Conditions
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Monday, August 7, 2023
- Carbon Dioxide -- Not Water -- Triggers Explosive Basaltic Volcanoes
- Scientists Crack the Code of What Causes Diamonds to Erupt
Thursday, August 3, 2023
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023
- Lasering Lava to Forecast Volcanic Eruptions
- Earth's Inner Core: Earth's Solid Metal Sphere Is 'textured'
Friday, June 30, 2023
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
- Research Reveals Sources of CO2 from Aleutian-Alaska Arc Volcanoes
- Climate Change Will Increase Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions
- Geologists Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Landslides
- Researchers Unearth the Mysteries of How Turkey's East Anatolian Fault Formed
- What Are the Characteristics of Foreshocks for Large Earthquakes?
Monday, June 26, 2023
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
- Scientists Unearth 20 Million Years of 'hot Spot' Magmatism Under Cocos Plate
- A Tongan Volcano Plume Produced the Most Intense Lightning Rates Ever Detected