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Engineers Put Five-Story Building on Seismic Shake Table to Test Earthquake and Fire Readiness
April 13, 2012 — What happens when you put a fully equipped five-story building, which includes an intensive care unit, a surgery suite, piping and air conditioning, fire barriers and even a working elevator, through ... > full story -
Tsunami Risk Reduction in the Age of Twitter
April 12, 2012 — In theory, national governments should issue tsunami watches and warnings. For sure, they should be the only ones issuing evacuation orders. But social media are much quicker to ... > full story -
Volcanic 'Plumbing Systems' Exposed: Step Closer to Predicting Large Eruptions With Study of Mid-Ocean Ridge Magma Chambers
March 30, 2012 — Two new studies into the "plumbing systems" that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions. International teams of researchers studied the location and behavior ... > full storyMore: -
New Seismic Hazard Assessment for Central America
March 29, 2012 — A new study evaluates the seismic hazards for the entire Central America, including specific assessments for six capital cities, with the greatest hazard expected for Guatemala City and San Salvador, ... > full story -
Pattern of Large Earthquakes on San Jacinto Fault Identified
March 29, 2012 — The San Jacinto Fault Zone is a seismically active, major component of the overall southern San Andreas Fault system. Researchers have mapped evidence of past ruptures consistent with very large ... > full story -
Expedition to Undersea Mountain Yields New Information About Sub-Seafloor Structure
March 26, 2012 — Scientists recently concluded an expedition aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution to learn more about Atlantis Massif, an undersea mountain, or seamount, that formed in a very different way ... > full story -
New Light Shed on Wandering Continents
March 22, 2012 — A layer of partially molten rock about 22 to 75 miles underground can't be the only mechanism that allows continents to gradually shift their position over millions of years, according to a new ... > full storyMore: -
Seismic Survey at the Mariana Trench Will Follow Water Dragged Down Into the Earth's Mantle
March 22, 2012 — Seismologists have just returned from a cruise in the Western Pacific to lay the instruments for a seismic survey that will follow the water chemically bound to or trapped in the down-diving Pacific ... > full story -
Santorini: The Ground Is Moving Again in Paradise
March 13, 2012 — The Santorini caldera, which sits underneath a famous tourist destination, is awake again and rapidly deforming at levels never seen ... > full story -
Mapping the Moho With GOCE
March 9, 2012 — The first global high-resolution map of the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle – the Moho – has been produced based on data from ESA’s GOCE gravity satellite. ... > full story
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