Haiti earthquake damage. Assistant professors Camilla Cattania and William Frank discuss the science behind the 2010 and 2021 earthquakes in Haiti. On August 14, 2021,…
Posts published in “Earthquakes”
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Smoke rises from Calwood Fire as it nears a neighborhood in Boulder County on October 17, 2020. Credit: Malachi Brooks Rising Temperatures and Risky Development…
An electromagnetic sensor on its way to the ocean floor off New Zealand to collect data. Credit: Samer Naif / Lamont-Doherty Electromagnetic Geophysics Lab Seamounts…
Four “heliotrope” balloons were flown near Ridgecrest, California, after a series of earthquakes rattled the region in July 2019. By attaching barometers to the balloons,…
A University of California San Diego engineering professor has solved one of the biggest mysteries in geophysics: What causes deep-focus earthquakes? These mysterious earthquakes originate…
Two of the most destructive forces of nature — earthquakes and tsunamis — might actually be more of a threat than current estimates according to…
Curie Subsea Cable Route from Equinix LA4 International Business Exchange in Los Angeles to Chile. Credit: Equinix Using “Curie” — Google’s 10,000-kilometer-long underwater fiber-optic cable…
A randomly selected 3,000-year segment of the physics-based simulated catalog of earthquakes in California, created on Frontera. Credit: Kevin Milner, University of Southern California Supercomputer-powered…
New technology from Stanford scientists finds long-hidden quakes, and possible clues about how earthquakes evolve. Tiny movements in Earth’s outermost layer may provide a Rosetta…
Overview of the study area and the schematic illustration of interaction of fault motion and the seafloor subsidence. Credit: University of Tsukuba University of Tsukuba…
Map of the Cascadia subduction zone. Megathrust earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis that originate in subduction zones like Cascadia — Vancouver Island, Canada, to northern California…
Seismic Ocean Thermometry: Noise From Deep-Sea Earthquakes Provides New Way to Measure Ocean Warming
Seismic Ocean Thermometry: Noise From Deep-Sea Earthquakes Provides New Way to Measure Ocean Warming
An artist’s rendering of undersea earthquake waves. Credit: Caltech Using soundwaves cast from seafloor earthquakes, researchers demonstrate a new take on a largely abandoned way…
Anna Rood standing next to a tall, slender precariously balanced rock in Southern California. Cosmogenic surface exposure dating samples have been collected to determine its…
Rock-melting forces occurring much deeper in the Earth than previously understood appear to drive tremors along a notorious segment of California’s San Andreas Fault, according…
Reconstructed image of the fracture zone. Credit: Hicks et al. Scientists observed a ‘boomerang’ earthquake along Atlantic Ocean fault line, providing clues about how they…
Illustration of the natural fluid injection process that triggered the Cahuilla swarm. Credit: CalTech Natural Fluid Injections Triggered Cahuilla Earthquake Swarm Machine-learning algorithm helps geoscientists…
A team of engineers at the University of Missouri has designed a flexible material that can help buildings withstand multiple waves of energy traveling through…
[embedded content]Earthquakes that occur more than 300 kilometers below the Earth are poorly understood. UC Davis geophysicist Magali Billen modeled stresses in a sinking tectonic…
At the regional level and worldwide, the occurrence of large shallow earthquakes appears to follow a mathematical pattern called the Devil’s Staircase, where clusters of…
Spatial distribution of PEGS signal strength during the Tohoku quake in 2011, shortly before the arrival of the primary seismic wave. Credit: Earth and Planetary…