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A team of investigators in the United States, led by scientists at the Princeton University, have just launched a new online tool, that can produce realistic movies of earthquakes based on complex computer simulations.Though technically demanding to produce, due to the large amount of calculations required to make th... |
24 September 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Over the past few years, increasingly complex computer models have began painting interesting pictures of how the insides of our planet looks like, and that view is continuously getting better. Though it may seem unmovable, the ground is in fact floating on an ocean of molten rock called magma. This layer of the plan... |
27 August 2010
02:50 GMT |
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New studies of the infamous San Andreas fault line have revealed that the structure is a lot more active than thought, producing large earthquakes as often as every 45 to 144 years.The team behind the research bases its conclusions on a chart depicting the intensity and number of tremors that took place in the Fault ... |
21 August 2010
04:48 GMT |
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According to new seismologic data published in the latest issue of the top-rated scientific journal Nature, it would appear that the 2009 tsunami which struck Samoa and Tonga was produced by not one or two, but three consecutive earthquakes.As we were also telling you yesterday, it was only recently that experts at t... |
19 August 2010
03:53 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new finding, a team of experts managed to establish that the devastating tsunami which struck the southwest Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga last fall was not caused by one, but by two massive earthquakes. At this point, details are sketchy, in the sense that scientists don't really know wh... |
18 August 2010
10:45 GMT |
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The region adjacent to the Washington state capital city of Olympia apparently contains two fault lines that seismologists failed to discover until only recently. The finding is bound to have significant implications, considering that the existence of the two areas changes the seismic activity risk levels in the Paci... |
18 August 2010
06:15 GMT |
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After a devastating tremor struck the impoverished nation of Haiti back in January, geologists who arrived on the scene to analyze the situation stumbled upon an unexpected discovery – a never-before-seen fault line system.The new findings bear considerable implications for studies seeking to determine the risk... |
12 August 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Scientists have for a long time wondered as to why certain mid-continental fault lines rupture even when they are not sited directly atop tectonic plate boundaries. Such is the case for example with the New Madrid fault line, which lies southwest from New Madrid, Missouri. Oftentimes, it produces what are known as in... |
31 July 2010
05:03 GMT |
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The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on February 27 this year had far-reaching effects that are only now beginning to show their full extent. Immediately after the natural disaster struck, experts discovered that it had shifted Earth's axis, causing the days to shorten by 1.26 microseconds. It was late... |
30 July 2010
09:31 GMT |
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A group of investigators spearheaded by experts at NASA managed recently to demonstrate the basic elements of a new type of tsunami prediction system. Their approach relies on a number of scientific instruments, which are capable of conducting earthquake analysis with high speed, and then calculate the risk of a poss... |
15 June 2010
06:16 GMT |
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As reported earlier, the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest is about to experience a major earthquake. Experts have calculated that the area has a 33 percent chance of suffering the effects of a large tremor within the next 50 years. In immediate response to this new study, a small coastal community in... |
25 May 2010
07:03 GMT |
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A new series of geological observations have determined that there is a major risk of a huge earthquake striking the Pacific Northwest within the next half-century, researchers say. According to the team that conducted the work, a tremor the magnitude of those that struck Haiti and Chile earlier this year has a 33 pe... |
25 May 2010
05:49 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) announce in a new study that Haiti is still not safe from earthquakes over the coming months and years. These conclusions are based on studies of the tectonic plate system that exists in the Caribbean Sea, the team says,... |
21 May 2010
10:57 GMT |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) announces that it has just awarded three important Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grants, so that researchers can study the causes and aftermath of the massive, magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on February 27. The data that the new studies will collect will hopefull... |
4 May 2010
04:51 GMT |
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We're not yet even halfway through the fourth month of the year, and the planet has already experienced a number of devastating natural disasters, which saw hundreds of thousands losing their lives. Starting in January, earthquakes have devastated numerous locations, including Haiti, Chile, Mexico and now China,... |
15 April 2010
06:38 GMT |
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According to a new scientific paper, published in the latest issue of the respected scientific journal Geology, it would appear that glaciers can experience the effects of so-called “icequakes” several hundreds of times each day. The events, which shake ice caps to their very core, can send out shock wave... |
2 April 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Tomorrow, Saturday March 20, marks the 30th anniversary of the 2.3-magnitude earthquake that shook the ground near Mount St. Helens. Starting that day, the volcano was reawakened, and events precipitated constantly from there on, until finally culminating with the devastating eruption of May 18, 1980. The event took ... |
19 March 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Statisticians show that the current year, 2010, is already well outside the limits of what some would call a “normal” number of casualties produced by natural disasters. Many people have already died due to catastrophe, and Mother Nature unleashed a series of devastating events on us, ranging from earthqu... |
12 March 2010
05:59 GMT |
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The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on February 27 was recently established to be the fifth-strongest in recorded history, and also one of the most interesting to study, from a geological perspective. It would appear that planetary scientists have a great deal to learn from it, and also from the changes th... |
9 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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At about 4.5 billion years old, one could expect Earth to be a lot calmer than it was in its earliest days, but researchers say that this is not the case. Solidified from a ball of hot lava, the planet is now covered by large amounts of water, and is the only celestial body in the known Universe that is capable of su... |
5 March 2010
04:26 GMT |
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On February 27, a devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Chilean coastline. The tremor, which was the seventh strongest ever recorded by modern means, could have caused a lot of damage, but fortunately only minimal casualties were recorded, and damage to infrastructure was not considerable. Immediately after... |
3 March 2010
02:58 GMT |
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Soon after the Saturday, February 27 earthquake that struck Chile with a magnitude of 8.8 degrees, experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, began working on a model to determine how the tremor influenced the planet. Their preliminary, rough results show that the ground-shake cause... |
2 March 2010
05:53 GMT |
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When the 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central parts of Chile this Saturday, officials at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) were on their toes in no time. The organization has built three large observatories in the Atacama Desert over the years, all of which may have been endangered by the powerful tremor... |
2 March 2010
02:51 GMT |
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On February 27, a very powerful earthquake struck Chile, killing at least 700 people, and causing important damages to a host of cities. The tectonic event triggered a modest-sized tsunami, which spread throughout the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami warnings were given in 53 countries, but damages were not very significant wh... |
1 March 2010
02:37 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the January 12, magnitude-7 earthquake that struck the nation of Haiti last month, two deadly tsunamis formed in the waters off the island. These waves naturally traveled until they met land, and formed walls of water up to three meters in height. The announcement was made on February 24 in Portla... |
26 February 2010
02:47 GMT |
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Soon after the January 12, magnitude 7 earthquake struck the impoverished nation of Haiti, researchers at the University of Washington were deployed in the region. Their main objective was to conduct a study of how the fault lines in the region were modified following the main tremor, and the magnitude 6.2 aftershock... |
23 February 2010
06:13 GMT |
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The exemplary international mobilization that jumped to aid Haiti after the January 12 earthquake, and the January 20 aftershock, is now being followed by a cohort of studies on the risks associated with the fault lines on which the country is resting. The island of Hispaniola, hosting Haiti and the Dominican Republi... |
10 February 2010
05:03 GMT |
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The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 had multiple effects on the country, as far as its society, economy, and politics went, but also managed to destabilize all the fault lines around the region. This was the conclusion geophysicists analyzing the consequences of the tremor came to. They shared their data w... |
3 February 2010
01:50 GMT |
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As we were telling you last week, the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), operated by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, managed to conduct a preliminary survey of the post-earthquake Haiti. The false-color images show a country devastated by the January 12 tr... |
2 February 2010
05:02 GMT |
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As evidenced by the recent case of the January 12 Haiti earthquake, natural disasters can leave behind a trail of devastation so severe, that experts need to spend a lot of time just figuring out the extent of the devastation. To specifically address this issue, researchers at the US Department of Homeland Security (... |
1 February 2010
04:50 GMT |
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Geologists and seismologists have been drawing attention for quite some time now that, just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, there is an area of intense geological activity that has largely remained under-researched. At that location, they reveal, the North American plate subdues the Juan de Fuca tectonic plat... |
29 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency, NASA, have announced that they have added a number of scientific overflights above the devastated nation of Haiti, as well as over the Dominican Republic. The flights have been added to missions that were scheduled some time ago, and they again highlight NASA's commitment to... |
27 January 2010
03:01 GMT |
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The January 12, 7.0-magnitude earthquake that shook the very foundation of Haiti, and left the country in ruins, did not come all of a sudden. The energy that was released then, and in following aftershocks, was accumulated in the fault lines between the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates for a long time, a... |
26 January 2010
03:36 GMT |
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Recently, scientists at the Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of California in Irvine (UCI) conducted a new research on the San Andreas fault line, but this time at the site of the giant earthquake of Fort Tejon (1857). The investigators analyzed data on stream channel offsets in the region, and were ... |
22 January 2010
09:09 GMT |
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According to geologists at the US Geological Survey (USGS), the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 will continue to generate aftershocks for many months to come, or maybe even years. Naturally, the strength of these tremors will decrease over time, as evidenced by the fact that the January 20 af... |
22 January 2010
03:21 GMT |
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The impoverished nation of Haiti was again stricken by a powerful earthquake today, January 20, at 06:03:44 AM epicenter time (11:03:44 UTC). With emergency response teams from around the world already on site in Port-au-Prince, as well as in other areas of the country that were strongly affected by the January 12 de... |
20 January 2010
09:56 GMT |
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As international relief efforts are underway in the severely affected Caribbean nation of Haiti, researchers in the United States are beginning to wonder whether the nation's cities are safe from such a potentially devastating natural disaster. Numerous cities in the US lie on, or very close to, intensely active... |
16 January 2010
04:05 GMT |
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With the USGS confirming that the earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday was 7.0 in magnitude, the scale of the devastation in the Caribbean nation begins to make sense. While details were scarce on Wednesday, in the last 48 hours, numerous reports and images have begun to emerge from the region. In addition to on-s... |
15 January 2010
04:07 GMT |
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Renowned televangelist and “media host” Pat Robertson never misses an opportunity to capitalize on other people's misery to promote what he refers to as “God's work.” Naturally, when he got the opportunity to discuss the massive earthquake that struck the poor nation of Haiti, he wen... |
14 January 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Tuesday night, at 16:53 local time (2153 GMT), a massive earthquake struck the small, impoverished nation of Haiti, in the worst such event to hit the country in more than 100 years. According to the earliest reports available from the region, it would appear that the quake was massive, causing widespread damage and ... |
13 January 2010
10:47 GMT |
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According to recent numbers released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), earthquakes killed more than 1,700 people last year. Of these individuals, most perished in southern Sumatra, Indonesia, on September 30, when the powerful tremor that struck the region killed 1,117 people. The United Nations Office for Coordina... |
11 January 2010
05:29 GMT |
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A large number of the earthquakes that take place on the San Andreas fault line – one of the most active on the globe – are caused by tidal forces, experts say. These forces are generated by motions in the planet's crust, they explain, which make the tectonic plates on top tremble. The extreme tensio... |
28 December 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) College of Letters, Arts and Sciences say that they have just finished developing a new tool for forecasting large earthquakes. While plagued with uncertainties, just like all the other warning methods, the new one is also a lot more specific, in that it focus... |
4 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Just recently, the city of Istanbul saw the opening and commissioning of the world's largest and safest earthquake-proof building in the world. The structure covers an impressive area, but it's completely isolated from the ground below. It does not rest on the soil, but rather on a few hundred bearings, whi... |
23 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Geologists analyzing the large number of small earthquakes that occurs in the central parts of the continental United States say that these events may be nothing more than aftershocks from a few very strong tremors that rattled the region in the 1800s. The New Madrid Earthquakes, between December 1811 and February 18... |
5 November 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Over the past few years, geologists and planetary scientists have been saying that, in the near future, methods of predicting earthquakes more accurately, and further ahead, may become common throughout the world. However, as the years go by, this seems to less and less be the case. The vast majority of earthquake pr... |
29 October 2009
10:05 GMT |
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The massive, 8.0-scale tremor that struck the Sichuan province in China on May 12, 2008, claimed the lives of more than 85,000 people. It also caused massive damage to the country's infrastructure, and was felt in Beijing, some 1,500 kilometers away from its shallow epicenter, just 12 miles beneath the surface. ... |
15 October 2009
10:58 GMT |
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When our planet's hum was identified for the first time, many experts were puzzled by it. Some people even went as far as to panic and call it a sign of God. Over the years, as with all the superstitions, these ideas faded away, as science progressed. Now, we have come so far in studying this ultra-low frequency... |
2 October 2009
06:39 GMT |
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The commonly accepted model of our planet states that the thick core is surrounded by a massive layer of magma known as the mantle, on which the tectonic plates that make up the crust float. When these plates meet, in areas known as fault lines, they collide against each other. When these collisions are delayed, tens... |
1 October 2009
02:35 GMT |
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According to a recent scientific study, it may be that experiencing (and surviving) an earthquake may have a number of side-effects on people, including damage to their brain function, even though they remain physically healthy. The investigation was conducted on survivors of the Wenchuan, China earthquake, which too... |
25 September 2009
21:11 GMT |
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