Earthquakes News
December 24, 2024
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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 had a ...
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 along the Indian Ocean's 90-degree east longitude and ...
Nov. 6, 2024 Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics to quantify how hostile environmental interactions may impact the ...
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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 ...
Nov. 13, 2024 Wastewater injection resulting from oil and gas production in Oklahoma caused a dramatic rise in seismic activity in the state between 2009 and 2015. ...
Nov. 4, 2024 Fifteen minutes before the massive January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, a seismic wave was recorded by two distant seismic stations. The researchers propose that the ...
Building Safer Cities With AI: Machine Learning Model Enhances Urban Resilience Against Liquefaction
Oct. 28, 2024 In earthquake-prone areas like Japan, there is a need for better prediction of soil stability to mitigate liquefaction risks. Towards this end, ...
Oct. 21, 2024 When a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck northern New Jersey's Tewksbury township on April 5, it triggered widespread alarm as the biggest event since 1884. Based on existing models, it should have ...
Oct. 17, 2024 Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and landslides are commonly prefaced by the phrase, 'not if, but when.' This precarious reality is now a bit more predictable thanks to ...
Oct. 16, 2024 A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once ...
Oct. 2, 2024 Geologists show how the earthquake's rupture direction may have affected who felt the strongest shaking on 5 ...
Sep. 27, 2024 Researchers showed that the 1995 Kobe (Hyogo-ken Nanbu) earthquake, which struck southern Hyogo Prefecture, may have been triggered by deep ...
Sep. 27, 2024 Geologists discover a mysterious subduction zone deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, reshaping our understanding of Earth's ...
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Sep. 12, 2024 A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth, according to a ...
Aug. 30, 2024 A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometers beneath our feet within Earth's liquid core has been discovered, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet's magnetic ...
Aug. 29, 2024 The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest over large areas, according to research by scientists who analyzed ...
Aug. 27, 2024 A study is calling into question the reliability of the earthquake record of Cascadia. The researchers analyzed a selection of turbidite layers from the Cascadia subduction zone dating back about ...
Aug. 23, 2024 The 7.5- magnitude earthquake beneath Japan's Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, occurred when a 'dual-initiation mechanism' applied enough energy from two different locations to break ...
Aug. 16, 2024 Geophysicists find link between seismic waves called PKP precursors and anomalies in Earth's mantle that are associated with hotspots associated with volcanism on the ...
Aug. 14, 2024 A team of researchers has made strides in understanding the formation of massif-type anorthosites, enigmatic rocks that only formed during the middle part of Earth's history. These ...
Aug. 9, 2024 In September 2023, a megatsunami in remote eastern Greenland sent seismic waves around the world, piquing the interest of the global research community. The event created a week-long oscillating wave ...
Aug. 7, 2024 Using data collected from a 2022 magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Luding County in China's Sichuan Province, researchers tested whether Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations could be ...
Aug. 6, 2024 A new study by seismologists reexamines earthquakes in the Permian Basin that occurred before 2017 against the real-time data collected from earthquakes taking place after 2020. Results confirm that ...
Aug. 5, 2024 Using state of the art techniques, researchers use vibrations from traffic to measure underground soil ...
Aug. 5, 2024 Computational modeling shows that plate tectonics weren't necessary for early ...
Aug. 1, 2024 Soil liquefaction that results in infrastructure damage has long been a point of contention for urban planners and engineers. Accurately predicting the soil liquefaction risk of a region could help ...
June 26, 2024 Scientists predict from geochemical data that Iceland is entering a new volcanic era that will last for decades, possibly centuries. Under an hour's drive from the country's capital city, ...
June 17, 2024 A major earthquake 2,500 years ago caused one of the largest rivers on Earth to abruptly change course, according to a new study. The previously undocumented quake rerouted the main channel of the ...
June 13, 2024 The new study provides unambiguous evidence that the inner core began to decrease its speed around 2010, moving slower than the Earth's ...
June 13, 2024 In the same way that the number of rings in a tree can tell us its age, the characteristics of rocks such as breccia can tell us about the history of a region. The breccia around Ichinokawa Mine ...
June 7, 2024 A new study has produced the first comprehensive survey of the many complex structures beneath the seafloor in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, off British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California. ...
June 5, 2024 Researchers are adding a new wrinkle to a long-held belief about what causes earthquakes in the first ...
May 30, 2024 During an earthquake, soil can weaken through subsidence and liquefaction. These processes can cause buildings to collapse as the soil becomes unable to support their weight. Researchers have now ...
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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
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- 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?
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- When Soft Spheres Make Porous Media Stiffer
- Sinking Seamount Offers Clues to Slow Motion Earthquakes
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- Puerto Rico Tsunami Deposit Could Have Come from Pre-Columbian Megathrust Earthquake
- Turkey's Next Quake: Research Shows Where, How Bad -- But Not 'when'
- New USGS-FEMA Report Updates Economic Risk from Earthquakes
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- Study Shows How Machine Learning Could Predict Rare Disastrous Events, Like Earthquakes or Pandemics