In a bid to understand why the tectonic plates around the Pacific Ocean are causing such massive earthquakes, experts have recently collected new core samples from the ocean floor. They hope that analyzing these sediments will give them a clearer picture of what's going on.The samples collected from the eastern ... |
29 June 2011
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A group of investigators has just released the most comprehensive and detailed map of the foundations on which North America lies to date. The dataset provides an extremely insightful look into the planet's interior, miles beneath the thick continental crust.
Organized as a cut-away map, this view is curved ... |
4 June 2011
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An analysis conducted by researchers at the Stanford University, in the United States, reveals the reasons why the magnitude 9 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 caused such a massive tsunami.According to the investigators, the unusual fault lines located northeast of the capital Tokyo ruptured in a very unusua... |
25 May 2011
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Japanese authorities have been expecting an earthquake similar to the one that struck the country for nearly three decades now, but they were surely not expecting it to strike in the region it did. Geologists say that the fault line that ruptured to produce the magnitude 9.0 tremor that struck 80 miles east of the ci... |
17 March 2011
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Scientists have been wondering where the massive Banda Arc originated from for decades. The immense, arc-like fold in our planet's crust is located at the intersection of some major tectonic plates, but until now no research team was able to explain the processes that led to its formation. The geological mystery... |
6 August 2010
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Investigators from the Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of California in Davis (UCD) have recently determined what causes the historical eruptions of Oregon's tallest mountain, Mount Hood. The new data seems to indicate that a mixing occurring between two different types of magma may be responsib... |
3 August 2010
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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
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According to a new series of scientific observations, the Earth's mantle is moving faster in some spots than researchers first calculated. The mantle is the layer of molten rock that covers the planet's solid core, and lies just beneath the tectonic plates on which Earth's oceans and continents lie. Re... |
20 May 2010
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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
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Thanks to the dedication of researchers and experts from the Oregon State University (OSU), we now have the first full map of the electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle, at a global scale, and in 3D. The find could have some of the most useful applications, such as using disruptions in electrical conducti... |
20 August 2009
06:14 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, conducted by researchers at the University of Utah, and published in the August 6th issue of the respected scientific journal Nature, the new and young New Zealand tectonic plate is slowly reaching maturity, benefiting from an unexpected source of help – water deposits locat... |
6 August 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Using advanced equipment aboard the Chikyu (which translates into 'Planet Earth') drilling vessel, Japanese scientists have managed to drill a hole more than one mile deep into the ocean floor in the Nankai Trough earthquake zone, one of the most active in the world today. Located about 36 miles Southeast o... |
31 July 2009
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