Earthquake News

Posted September 17, 2010:

• U.S. Tsunami Detection Improves, but Coastal Areas Still Vulnerable, Report Finds

Posted September 16, 2010:

• The Biggest Crash on Earth: India Slides Under Tibet, but How?

Posted September 14, 2010:

• Research Will Help ID Bodies Left Behind by Chilean Earthquake, Pinochet Regime
• Improving Crisis Prediction, Disaster Control and Damage Reduction

Posted September 9, 2010:

• Tectonic Zip: Predictable Events of the February 2010 Earthquake in Chile

Posted August 31, 2010:

• Understanding Volcanism and Tectonic Activity in Yellowstone and the Pacific Northwest

Posted August 27, 2010:

• New View of Tectonic Plates: Computer Modeling of Earth's Mantle Flow, Plate Motions, and Fault Zones

Posted August 25, 2010:

• North American Continent Is a Layer Cake, Scientists Discover

Posted August 20, 2010:

• Big Quakes More Frequent Than Thought on San Andreas Fault, Research Shows
• Surfing for Earthquakes

Posted August 18, 2010:

• Deadly Samoa-Tonga Earthquake Concealed Two Other Quakes, Seismic Sleuths Discover

Posted August 9, 2010:

• Potentially Active Faults Near Olympia, Washington State, US, Identified

Posted August 7, 2010:

• NASA Images Show Continuing Mexico Quake Deformation

Posted July 30, 2010:

• New Theory of Why Midcontinent Faults Produce Earthquakes
• Scientists Test Cutting-Edge Technology for Underwater Mapping at Tahoe Basin

Posted July 26, 2010:

• Indonesia's Puzzling Banda Arc: New Findings Explain Mystery Behind Geological Development

Posted July 16, 2010:

• Breakthrough Achieved in Explaining Why Tectonic Plates Move the Way They Do

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Geoscientists Find Clues to Why First Sumatran Earthquake Was Deadlier Than Second

Posted July 6, 2010:

• Shocking Results from Diamond Anvil Cell Experiments

Posted June 24, 2010:

• NASA Radar Images Show How Mexico Quake Deformed Earth
• Tiny Clays Curb Big Earthquakes

Posted June 22, 2010:

• New Areas Prone to Moderate Earthquakes Identified in Iberian Peninsula

Posted June 21, 2010:

• Geo-Neutrinos: Discovery of Subatomic Particles Could Answer Deep Questions in Geology

Posted June 2, 2010:

• Like Fireflies, Earthquakes May Fire in Synchrony

Posted June 18, 2010:

• Afghanistan's Rich Mineral Deposits: Aerogeophysical Survey Provides Promising Prospects of Economic Development

Posted June 16, 2010:

• 110-Foot Concrete Bridge Withstands 8.0 Earthquake Simulation

Posted June 14, 2010:

• NASA Demonstrates Tsunami Prediction System

Posted June 7, 2010:

• Building to Withstand Hurricanes

Posted June 2, 2010:

• Revised Seismotectonic Model for California Central Coast: More Complex Than Previously Thought
• Mountains and Volcanoes in the Mediterranean Rise Due to Pressure from Mantle Below

Posted May 28, 2010:

• Deep Subduction of the Indian Continental Crust Beneath Asia

Posted May 24, 2010:

• Weird Orbits of Neighbors Can Make 'Habitable' Planets Not So Habitable
• Odds Are About 1-in-3 That Mega-Earthquake Will Hit Pacific Northwest in Next 50 Years, Scientists Say

Posted May 11, 2010:

• 'Tsunami' Video Sheds Light on Struggling Pupfish
• Predicting Economic Crises With 'Econophysics'

Posted May 7, 2010:

• GOCE Satellite Determines Gravitational Force in the Himalayas

Posted May 6, 2010:

• Peruvian Tectonic Plates Move by Earthquakes and Non-Seismic Slip
• Researchers Create Software for Robot to Improve Rescue Missions
• Radio Tags Could Save Lives After Earthquakes

Posted May 5, 2010:

• Aseismic Slip as a Barrier to Earthquake Propagation

Posted April 28, 2010:

• Part of Alaska Inundated by Ancient Megafloods
• Scientists Probe Earth's Core
• Locating Tsunami Warning Buoys

Posted April 27, 2010:

• Researchers Study Effect of Yuma Desalting Plant on Cienega De Santa Clara

Posted April 22, 2010:

• Earthquake-Resistant Engineering
• Device for Seismic Isolation of Buildings Designed

Posted April 15, 2010:

• Recent Earthquake Activity Is Not Unusual, Scientists Say

Posted April 14, 2010:

• Earthquake in Chile Causesd Days to Be Longer, Austrian Researchers Find

Posted April 12, 2010:

• Understanding Intraplate Earthquakes

Posted April 8, 2010:

• Topography Reflects Baja Quake Site's Complex Geology

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