Earthquakes News
April 30, 2025
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Apr. 28, 2025 Scientists have collaborated to analyze the inner workings of Bolivia's 'zombie' volcano, Uturuncu. By combining seismology, physics models and analysis of rock composition, researchers identify the ...
Apr. 28, 2025 On Jan. 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates. The observed uplift, however, varied significantly, ...
Apr. 23, 2025 When a seismologist visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange. Pebble- to boulder-sized rocks clearly had been moved by the earthquakes -- but there were no signs of dragging or ...
Apr. 24, 2025 Could the seismic signal of an underground nuclear test explosion be 'hidden' by the signal generated by a natural ...
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Apr. 18, 2025 Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake ...
Apr. 18, 2025 Researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are ...
Apr. 15, 2025 The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...
Apr. 14, 2025 Researchers use mathematical modeling to probe whether cohesive communities are more resilient to extreme events, finding that emotional intensity ...
Apr. 11, 2025 A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...
Apr. 9, 2025 New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface ...
Mar. 18, 2025 Over the past two decades, Haiti has endured the devastation of two catastrophic earthquakes -- first in 2010 and again in 2021. Each disaster left behind widespread destruction: buildings reduced to ...
Mar. 12, 2025 Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City ...
Mar. 5, 2025 Concrete structures in Japan capture and store about 14% of the CO2 emissions released during cement production, according to a new study. Their ...
Mar. 5, 2025 A new seismic study of Singapore could guide urban growth and renewable energy development in the coastal city nation, where 5.6 million residents ...
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Mar. 4, 2025 Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...
Feb. 28, 2025 Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the ...
Feb. 26, 2025 A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of ...
Feb. 25, 2025 Grouting is a widely used construction technique that involves injecting stabilizing materials into soil to ensure structural stability, which is especially beneficial in earthquake-prone regions. ...
Feb. 20, 2025 Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To help fill this gap, a research team has investigated the connection ...
Feb. 14, 2025 In late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, raising concerns of an imminent volcanic eruption or ...
Feb. 10, 2025 Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until ...
Feb. 5, 2025 What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a ...
Feb. 3, 2025 Early detection of earthquakes could be vastly improved by tapping into the world's internet network with a groundbreaking new algorithm, researchers say. Fiber optic cables used for cable ...
Jan. 29, 2025 An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...
Jan. 27, 2025 Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by ...
Jan. 23, 2025 The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the ...
Jan. 22, 2025 Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of ...
Jan. 9, 2025 A series of more than 100 small earthquakes in Surrey in 2018 and 2019 might have been triggered by oil extraction from a nearby well, suggests a new ...
Jan. 8, 2025 Researchers have found that the taller the Japanese black pine trees (Pinus thunbergii) along the coast, the deeper their roots penetrate the ground. Deeper roots make trees more resistant to damage ...
Dec. 27, 2024 New research shows that three sites spread along an approximately 620-mile portion of today's Denali Fault were once a smaller united geologic feature indicative of the final joining of two land ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Scientists have a new method for studying faults that could improve earthquake forecasts, shedding light on where quakes start, how they spread, and where the biggest impacts might ...
Dec. 2, 2024 Scientists assessed an unprecedented 120 years of data from K lauea Volcano on Hawai'i Island, uncovering, for the first time, century-spanning patterns of deformation and stress changes. They ...
Dec. 2, 2024 A new collection of published papers offers the most detailed and comprehensive breakdown yet of how water injected into the Permian Basin during oil and gas operations is changing subsurface ...
Nov. 27, 2024 New research has revealed that the Ninetyeast Ridge -- the Earth's longest straight underwater mountain chain -- formed through a different process than previously believed. Stretching 5000 km ...
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- Unveiling a Century of Stress and Deformation: Insights from Kilauea Volcano's 1975 Earthquake
- New Research Provides an Improved Understanding of Earthquake Hazards in the Permian Basin
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- Building Safer Cities With AI: Machine Learning Model Enhances Urban Resilience Against Liquefaction
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- Deep Underground Flooding Beneath Arima Hot Springs: A Potential Trigger for the 1995 Kobe (Hyogo-Ken Nanbu) Earthquake
- Ancient Sunken Seafloor Reveals Earth's Deep Secrets
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- Seismic Detectors Measure Soil Moisture Using Traffic Noise
- New Model Refutes Leading Theory on How Earth's Continents Formed
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- The Rotation of Earth's Inner Core Has Slowed, New Study Confirms
- Estimating the Energy of Past Earthquakes from Brecciation in a Fault Zone
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- Heavy Snowfall and Rain May Contribute to Some Earthquakes
- Pore Pressure Diffusion Led to Microseismicity at Illinois Basin Carbon Sequestration Site
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- Ancient Rocks Improve Understanding of Tectonic Activity Between Earthquakes
- New Method to More Accurately Spot Underground Nuclear Tests
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- Hebrew Prayer Book Fills Gap in Italian Earthquake History
- The Remains of an Ancient Planet Lie Deep Within Earth
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- 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