Earthquakes News
April 19, 2024
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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 geothermal energy ...
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 research team concluded that it was likely the dancing and ...
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 that the event 7,300 years ago was the largest ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 impact ...
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 close ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Rocks once buried deep in ancient subduction zones -- where tectonic plates collide -- could help scientists make better predictions of how these ...
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. 18, 2024 Researchers report that the roughness of pre-existing faults and associated stress heterogeneity in geological reservoirs play a key role for causing human-made earthquakes, so-called runaway events. ...
Jan. 16, 2024 Scientists recently revealed the latest National Seismic Hazard Model, showing that nearly 75% of the United States could experience a damaging earthquake, emphasizing seismic hazards span a ...
Jan. 9, 2024 Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery regarding the origins of non-meteoric water in natural spa waters located in central Japan. Based on ...
Jan. 3, 2024 A new study provides further evidence that the Nord Stream seismic signals came from a complex source. The signals lasted longer than would be ...
Earlier Headlines
Dec. 15, 2023 In their rapid characterization of the magnitude 6.8 Al Haouz earthquake in Morocco, researchers suggest that the earthquake ruptured roughly 25 kilometers deep beneath the ...
Dec. 13, 2023 Using questionnaires created to determine whether a particular earthquake is natural or induced by human activity, a panel of experts concluded that the November 2022 magnitude 5.2 Peace River ...
Dec. 11, 2023 Scientists have recently introduced a new method called ambient noise differential adjoint tomography, which allows researchers to visualise rocks with fluids better, leading to potential ...
Dec. 4, 2023 Amid the rubble of large-sale earthquake, war or other disaster -- and as ageing buildings and infrastructure are replaced -- mountains of concrete are often taken to landfill or pounded into rubble ...
Nov. 13, 2023 In the 1800s, some of the strongest earthquakes in recorded U.S. history struck North America's continental interior. Almost two centuries later, the central and eastern United States may still ...
Nov. 7, 2023 New maps of more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides in the Puget Lowlands of Washington State provide evidence of the last major earthquake along the Seattle Fault about 1,100 years ago -- and may ...
Nov. 1, 2023 The chance discovery of a note written in a 15th century Hebrew prayer book fills an important gap in the historical Italian earthquake record, offering a brief glimpse of a previously unknown ...
Nov. 1, 2023 The remnants of an ancient planet that collided with Earth to form the Moon lie deep within the earth, according to a new ...
Oct. 18, 2023 New high-resolution images of the Long Valley Caldera indicate that the subsurface environment is cooling off, releasing gas and fluids that contribute to seismic ...
Oct. 17, 2023 One of the biggest challenges for earthquake early warning systems (EEW) is the lack of seismic stations located offshore of heavily populated coastlines, where some of the world's most ...
Oct. 9, 2023 Geologists have reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. The team had predicted its existence over 10 years ago based on ...
Oct. 5, 2023 A new attempt to predict earthquakes has raised hopes that artificial intelligence could one day be used to limit earthquakes’ impact on lives and economies. The AI algorithm correctly predicted ...
Oct. 4, 2023 Researchers working to image New Zealand's Hikurangi earthquake fault have uncovered a sea's worth of water buried in the Earth's crust. The water was carried down by eroding volcanic ...
Sep. 27, 2023 Tree rings reveal a new kind of earthquake threat to the Pacific Northwest. These findings could have implications for seismic preparedness measures in the ...
Sep. 27, 2023 The mechanism facilitating the smooth movement of the oceanic lithosphere over the underlying asthenosphere (upper mantle) remains poorly understood. Recently, researchers from Japan investigated the ...
Sep. 12, 2023 Fires that raged in the days following the 1 September 1923 magnitude 7.9 Kant earthquake killed roughly 90% of the 105,000 people who perished in and around Tokyo, making it one of the deadliest ...
Sep. 11, 2023 Hadal trenches, with their deepest locations situated in the so-called hadal zone, the deepest parts of the ocean in water depth >6km, are the least-explored environment on Earth, linking the ...
Aug. 10, 2023 New research confirms fracking causes slow, small earthquakes or tremors, whose origin was previously a mystery to scientists. The tremors are produced by the same processes that could create large, ...
Aug. 2, 2023 The same fiber optic networks that provide internet can simultaneously act as earthquake sensors, as demonstrated in a new ...
Aug. 1, 2023 A new study uses nearly a century of data to show that the average heights of winter waves along the California coast have increased as climate change has heated up the ...
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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
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- Landslide Risk Remains Years After Even a Weak Earthquake
- Earthquake Lab Experiments Produce Aftershock-Like Behavior
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- Monitoring 'frothy' Magma Gases Could Help Evade Disaster
- Exploring the Deep: Drones Offer New Ways to Monitor Sea Floor
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- Geological Carbon Sequestration in Mantle Rocks Prevents Large Earthquakes in Parts of the San Andreas Fault
- Assessing the Effect of Hydraulic Fracturing on Microearthquakes
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- Global Supply Chains Remain Resilient in the Wake of Natural Disasters
- Shockwave Caused by Tonga Underwater Eruption May Help Scientists Predict Future Tsunami
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- Arc Volcanoes Are Wetter Than Previously Thought, With Scientific and Economic Implications
- Tsunami Threats Underestimated in Current Models
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- Hunga Volcano Eruption Provides an Explosion of Data
- New Research Could Provide Earlier Warning of Tsunamis