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Scientists Retrieve Temperature Data from Japan Trench Observatory
May 1, 2013 — With the successful retrieval of a string of instruments from deep beneath the seafloor, an international team of scientists has completed an unprecedented series of operations to obtain crucial ... > full story -
Finding a Sensible Balance for Natural Hazard Mitigation With Mathematical Models
April 30, 2013 — Uncertainty issues are paramount in assessing risks posed by natural hazards and in developing strategies to alleviate their consequences. A new model estimates the balance between costs and benefits ... > full story -
Canada's Distinctive Tuya Volcanoes Reveal Glacial, Palaeo-Climate Secrets
April 30, 2013 — Deposits left by the eruption of a subglacial volcano, or tuya, 1.8 million years ago could hold the secret to more accurate palaeo-glacial and climate models, according to new research. The detailed ... > full story -
No Redoubt: Volcanic Eruption Forecasting Improved
April 29, 2013 — Forecasting volcanic eruptions with success is heavily dependent on recognizing well-established patterns of pre-eruption unrest in the monitoring data. But in order to develop better monitoring ... > full story -
New Metric to Measure Destructive Potential of Hurricanes
April 25, 2013 — Researchers have developed a new metric to measure seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone activity that focuses on the size of storms in addition to the duration and intensity, a measure that may prove ... > full story -
Wildfires Can Burn Hot Without Ruining Soil
April 23, 2013 — When scientists torched an entire 22-acre watershed in Portugal in a recent experiment, their research yielded a counterintuitive result: Large, hot fires do not necessarily beget hot, scorched ... > full story -
Calculating Tsunami Risk for the US East Coast
April 19, 2013 — The greatest threat of a tsunami for the US East Coast from a nearby offshore earthquake stretches from the coast of New England to New Jersey, according to ... > full story -
After Major Earthquake: A Global Murmur, Then Unusual Silence
April 19, 2013 — In the global aftershock zone that followed the major April 2012 Indian Ocean earthquake, seismologists noticed an unusual pattern -- period of quiet, without a large quake. Why did this period of ... > full story -
Measuring the Hazards of Global Aftershock
April 19, 2013 — The entire world becomes an aftershock zone after a massive magnitude (M) 7 or larger earthquake -- but what hazard does this pose around the ... > full story -
Mine Disaster: Hundreds of Aftershocks
April 19, 2013 — A new study has identified hundreds of previously unrecognized small aftershocks that happened after Utah's deadly Crandall Canyon mine collapse in 2007. The aftershocks suggest the collapse was as ... > full story
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