Earthquake News

Posted July 31, 2009:

• Extraterrestrial Platinum Was 'Stirred' Into Earth

Posted July 30, 2009:

• Successful Completion Of First Riser-Drilling Operations In Earthquake Zone

Posted July 27, 2009:

• Jade Sheds Light On Guatemala's Geologic History
• Newly Discovered Faults Illuminate Earthquake Hazard Along San Andreas
• Sichuan Earthquake Destroyed Nearly A Quarter Of Panda Habitat Near Quake's Epicenter

Posted July 20, 2009:

• 'Invisibility Cloak' Could Protect Against Earthquakes
• Risk Of Huge Pacific Ocean Tsunami On West Coast Of America Greater Than Previously Thought

Posted July 16, 2009:

• Scientists Find Tsunami 'Shadow' Visible From Space

Posted July 9, 2009:

• Rensselaer Researchers To Participate In Seismic Test Of 7-Story Building
• Tremors On Southern San Andreas Fault May Mean Increased Earthquake Risk

Posted July 3, 2009:

• Faults And Earthquakes In China Monitored From Space

Posted June 22, 2009:

• Alaskan Earthquake 'To Be Expected,' Says Researcher
• Earth Hotspot Poorly Imaged

Posted June 19, 2009:

• Intelligent Wireless Systems Developed For Monitoring Cultural Monuments And Historical Structures

Posted June 18, 2009:

• Natural Deep Earth Pump Fuels Earthquakes And Ore

Posted June 17, 2009:

• Earthquake Faults Through Downtown Reno, Nevada

Posted June 15, 2009:

• Do And Don't Of Building In Hurricane-Prone Areas

Posted June 10, 2009:

• Predicted Ground Motions For Great Earthquake In Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Victoria And Vancouver
• Typhoons Trigger Slow Earthquakes
• New Definition Could Further Limit Habitable Zones Around Distant Suns

Posted June 4, 2009:

• Sichuan Province Earthquake, China: Coseismic Reverse And Oblique-Slip Surface Faulting Generated By The Earthquake

Posted May 26, 2009:

• Dripping 'Blob' Under Western U.S.: A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface

Posted May 18, 2009:

• Meeting Needs Of Frail Elderly People In A Disaster

Posted April 30, 2009:

• Unusual Impact Basin Discovered On Mercury

Posted April 29, 2009:

• Lake Tahoe Region In U.S. May Be Due For Major Earthquake

Posted April 27, 2009:

• Rotational Seismology May Soon Play Significant Role In Seismology And Earthquake Engineering

Posted April 23, 2009:

• Fingerprinting Slow Earthquakes And How They Relate To The Big One

Posted April 21, 2009:

• Caribbean At Risk Of Tsunami, Disaster Experts Warn

Posted April 15, 2009:

• Satellites Show How Earth Moved During Italy Quake

Posted April 14, 2009:

• One-Story Masonry Building Survives Strong Jolts During Seismic Tests

Posted April 11, 2009:

• Why Earthquake Waves Spread Unevenly

Posted April 10, 2009:

• Tectonic Events Behind Earthquake That Killed 595 In Peru

Posted April 9, 2009:

• Solomon Islands Earthquake Sheds Light On Enhanced Tsunami Risk
• Monitoring Yellowstone Earthquake Swarms
• Understanding Risk To Seattle's High-Rise Buildings From A Giant Cascadian Earthquake
• California's Central Coast Earthquake Hazards: New Information About Recently Identified Faults

Posted April 3, 2009:

• Straw Bale House Survives Violent Shaking At Earthquake Lab

Posted April 1, 2009:

• Mathematicians Provide New Insight Into Tsunamis

Posted March 26, 2009:

• New Listening Device Should Help Find Trapped Miners

Posted March 19, 2009:

• Scientists Cable Seafloor Seismometer Into California's Earthquake Network

Posted March 15, 2009:

• Earth Science: Lithosphere Deformed And Fractured Under Indian Ocean Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

Posted March 13, 2009:

• New Madrid Fault System, U.S., May Be Shutting Down

Posted March 5, 2009:

• New Zealand And New Caledonia Geographically Connected: Ocean's Journey Towards The Center Of The Earth
• Scientists Expose 'Buried' Fault That Caused Deadly 2003 Quake In Bam, Iran

Posted March 2, 2009:

• Wenchuan Earthquake Mudslides Emit Greenhouse Gas

Posted February 27, 2009:

• New Building Design Withstands Earthquake Simulation

Posted February 26, 2009:

• Earth Structure: Fluid Factory In Solid Earth

Posted February 15, 2009:

• Locations Of Strain, Slip Identified In Major Earthquake Fault
• New Monitoring Stations Detect 'Silent Earthquakes' In Costa Rica

Posted February 13, 2009:

• African Initiative Trains Students, Explores Geophysical Mysteries

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